Pirate Freedom

stilskin · 28 Aug 2007, 20:23 · from 2007-August.txt.gz

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From: acronus at yahoo.com (stilskin)
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:23:47 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) Pirate Freedom
In-Reply-To: <313675.39436.qm at web32102.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <3981.83036.qm at web35908.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

--- Nicholas Gevers <vermoulian at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Interesting! There is a case for seeing *Pirate
> Freedom* as SF, actually--Chris's story begins in
> Cuba
> some years from now, the Communists having fallen,
> and
> he remarks somewhere on his father having "had him
> built" a certain way (genetically, I assume),
> explaining his height and who knows what other
> abilities, including perhaps time travel? 
> 
> --Nick Gevers.

Also, in no other novel that I can think of has Wolfe
written as overtly about Christianity and the Catholic
religion.  That alone, to me, makes it something more
than a minor work.

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