Gene Wolfe (Was: Re: Mercedes Lackey)

Mike Rogers · 27 Mar 1992, 19:48 · from sf-lovers.1992.mbox

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From: mike at maths.tcd.ie (Mike Rogers)
Subject: Re: Gene Wolfe (Was: Re: Mercedes Lackey)
Date: 27 Mar 92 19:48:23 GMT
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gac2 at midway.uchicago.edu wrote:
>Someone actually wants _more_ Gene Wolfes?!?  What a painful thought!
>Reading his Torturer stuff was one of the most painful things I've ever
>done. There was no point, very little plot, and way too much
>foreshadowing.  It was a collection of images which went from unusual to
>completely whacked-out.  Why anyone would seek out more of this dreck is
>completely beyond me.

I think that the first line being "it is possible that I already had some
presentiment of my future" is a dead giveaway as regards foreshadowing.

For me, the series didn't really gel until I'd read The Urth of the New
Sun.  Sure, once I finished TBotNS I knew I'd read *something* special, but
I am such an inattentive reader that I'd have had to reread them a couple
of times to pick up on the self-referential bits. But TUoftNS just *blew*
me away. That solar sail! Wow!

Whatever turns you on.

Mike Rogers
Box 6, Regent Hse
TCD,EIRE
mike at maths.tcd.ie

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