Wolfe's NEW SUN (was Rhialto the Marvellous - Jack Vance)

Kevin J. Maroney · 22 May 1998, 23:15 · from sf-lovers.1998.mbox

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From: kmaroney at crossover.com (Kevin J. Maroney)
Subject: Re: Wolfe's NEW SUN (was Rhialto the Marvellous - Jack Vance)
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 23:15:35 GMT
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mikeb at massmedia.com (Mike Berro) wrote:
>The writing was very good, enough to get me through the four books, but
>unlike Vance, who (in at least some of his novels) never makes a pretense
>of telling a grand story, I felt in the SUN books that there was a subplot
>(or twelve) that was kept hidden from me, and never resolved.

<MASSIVE SPOILER>

What, the story of a young torturer's apprentice growing up, becoming king,
wrestling Satan, and evolving into God isn't grand enough?

And in the sequel, he both saves and destroys the world.

Kevin Maroney

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