Best of Gene Wolfe and another thing

don doggett · 09 Oct 2008, 04:50 · from 2008-October.txt.gz

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From: kingwukong at yahoo.com (don doggett)
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 21:50:41 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) Best of Gene Wolfe and another thing
Message-ID: <180398.23468.qm at web32408.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Sometimes, probably most times, God, or fate, or whomever or whatever, throws an unworthy dog(gett) a bone. I was perusing a box of ARCs at work today and what did I pull up from the churning depths of the Wordage Sea but an advance copy of The Best of Gene Wolfe. There are thirty-one stories total, and I'm willing to list them if there is interest and if none of the members with more editorial savy than I have find it objectionable. 

On An Evil Guest related note, I've just finished The Shark God, by Charles Montgomery, about his experiences in Melanesia, which is the obvious analog for the islands of the Takanga Group. I have no idea if Wolfe has read this book but it is a fascinating travel memoir, and at the end, sublimely moving. I can't recommend it enough.

Don

The Evangelists: a Lesser Apocrypha                                                                        http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=178109961

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