New Wolfe Listing on Amazon

James Crossley · 21 Aug 2008, 17:16 · from 2008-August.txt.gz

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From: ishmael at drizzle.com (James Crossley)
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:16:02 -0700
Subject: (urth) New Wolfe Listing on Amazon
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Message-ID: <C4D2F0E2.76CA%ishmael at drizzle.com>

On 8/21/08 10:01 AM, "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <danldo at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Matthew Keeley <matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Gene Wolfe has produced possibly the finest and most significant
>> body of short fiction in the SF and fantasy field in the last
>> fifty years, 
> 
>  Given that the fifty years in question includes, among other things, the
> complete
> careers of Roger Zelazny -- and whatever you say about Amber, he was a master
> of the short story -- Joanna Russ, and Harlan Ellison -- not to mention the
> late 
> career of Ted Sturgeon -- I think Tor may be overreacihng just a *wee* bit
> here.
> 

Is it overreaching? They did say ?possibly,? after all.

Interesting that the ToC seems to include ?Fifth Head of Cerberus.?  It can
stand alone, I suppose, but it?s almost infinitely richer in the context of
the book.

James
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