Gene Wolfe: Book of the New Sun

Tim Maroney · 14 Feb 1986, 18:33 · from sf-lovers.1986.mbox

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From: hoptoad!tim at caip.rutgers.edu (Tim Maroney)
Subject: Re: Re: Gene Wolfe: Book of the New Sun
Date: 14 Feb 86 18:33:27 GMT
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patcl at hammer.UUCP (Pat Clancy) writes:
>>I read Shadow of the Torturer and thought it was horrible.
>
>I'll second that!  This was an outstandingly bad novel.  Yet it
>seems that every year or so the Wulf-cultists must issue forth onto
>the net to demonstrate why there's such a large and uncritical
>market for so much bad SF.

This "cult" happens to include more than half of the SFWA, the
Science Fiction Writers of America, as evidenced by the Nebula
selections.  I would hardly call the SFWA uncritical, or large for
that matter.  Perhaps the writers know something you don't?  (There,
we're even insult for insult.)

Tim Maroney, Electronic Village Idiot

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