Strange Birds

Nicholas Gevers · 30 Mar 2006, 15:41 · from 2006-March.txt.gz

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: vermoulian at yahoo.com (Nicholas Gevers)
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:41:24 +0100 (BST)
Subject: (urth) Strange Birds
Message-ID: <20060330154124.75089.qmail at web32113.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

I've now read the new Wolfe mini-collection, STRANGE
BIRDS, forthcoming from Dreamhaven Books in April.
It's 40 pages, $10, and of interest especially for the
second of its two stories, "Sob in the Silence", a
masterful deconstruction of gratuitously macabre
horror fiction. The first piece, "On a Vacant Face a
Bruise", is distinctly weird far future SF, about a
boy joining the circus and redeeming it; it's a fine
story, but less focused.

Wolfe has another avian story in the May F&SF--"Bea
and Her Bird Brother", an intriguing allegory (as I
read it) of the schism between humankind's spiritual
and carnal natures; and forthcoming in the first
(June) issue of Jim Baen's Universe is "Build-a-Bear".
Animal themes seem dominant in GW's output at present.

--Nick Gevers.

___________________________________________________________ 
Yahoo! Photos ? NEW, now offering a quality print service from just 8p a photo http://uk.photos.yahoo.com

An unofficial mirror of a public mailing list · about & removal requests · download the archive · before the list · original archive at urth.net