Gene Wolfe review:

Gareth Rees · 06 Apr 1994, 10:02 · from sf-lovers.1994.mbox

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From: gdr11 at cl.cam.ac.uk (Gareth Rees)
Subject: Re: Gene Wolfe review:
Date: 6 Apr 94 10:02:32 GMT
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Dennis Carlyle writes:
> Do you know of any serious literary criticism of Gene Wolfe?

There's considerable discussion of 'The Book of the New Sun' and various
exciting questions like, "Who was Severian's mother?" in John Clute's
collection of essays and reviews, 'Strokes'.

There's a chapter on 'The Fifth Head of Cerberus' in Albert Wendland's
study of the uses of scientific accuracy and plausibility in sf 'Science,
myth and the fictional creation of alien worlds'.

Gareth Rees

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