The Distant Suns of Gene Wolfe

JWillard · 01 Jun 2007, 16:25 · from 2007-June.txt.gz

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From: aldenweer at charter.net (JWillard)
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 10:25:00 -0600
Subject: (urth) The Distant Suns of Gene Wolfe
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Recursive Loop wrote:

>Now, **this** is funny:
>
>"I recently asked a veteran New York editor whether Wolfe could find a publisher today if he were
>just coming along as a young writer. ?Probably not,? she admitted. His writing is too religious,
>too difficult, and too strange."
>
>Heaven forbid that we request readers to actually **think**, now! 
>
>Why didn't she just say "He's conservative, I'm a hip left-leaning NY publisher and I can't see
>past the end of my viewpoint!"
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Yes, it must be an evil liberal at fault. Seems to me more likely that 
both ends of the political spectrum would reject it for the reasons 
given: it's difficult material. It's the nature of our world to dumb 
things down right now. And everyone wants an easy sale. (And easy 
answers: just blame it on those you don't agree with.)

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