Wolfe: Misogynist Or Realist?

b sharp · 20 Oct 2006, 19:03 · from 2006-October.txt.gz

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From: bsharporflat at hotmail.com (b sharp)
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:03:46 -0400
Subject: (urth) Wolfe: Misogynist Or Realist?
Message-ID: <BAY103-F16183F726AA93A4C2611CCD70D0 at phx.gbl>

Dave Lebling writes regarding the female soldier:

>I would assume he's thinking of Foila, who is indeed a sympathetic and 
>likable character, a soldier >recovering from wounds(?) in the Pelerines' 
>hospice. (She's the prize in the story-telling contest, >but turns the 
>tables on the contestants by entering and winning.) This is in _Citadel of 
>the
>Autarch_.

Oooh how could I not think of Foila.  Yes, she is likable enough to dispel 
accusations Wolfe can't develop an admirable female character...But then 
again, we last see her critically wounded, probably dying,....hm....

-bsharp
(p.s. forgot Vulcan neck pinch in my list of 60's pop references in my last 
post)

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