Evil Guest Reviewed in Washington Post SF Roundup

James Crossley · 13 Oct 2008, 22:04 · from 2008-October.txt.gz

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From: ishmael at drizzle.com (James Crossley)
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:04:02 -0700
Subject: (urth) Evil Guest Reviewed in Washington Post SF Roundup
In-Reply-To: <980459.42955.qm at web37602.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <C51913E2.7C1E%ishmael at drizzle.com>

The Strange Horizons review captures a great deal of what I think about
Wolfe, especially recent works such as "Memorare," _Pirate Freedom_ and now
_Evil Guest_.  All have hidden depths that make them well worth exploring
and reward rereading, but am I the only one who feels that Wolfe is on the
verge (if not past it) of making the initial reading experience off-putting?

James

On 10/13/08 12:34 PM, "Craig Brewer" <cnbrewer at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Speaking of EG reviews, there's one up on the Strange Horizons website, as
> well:
> 
> http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2008/10/an_evil_guest_b.shtml
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Matthew Keeley <matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com>
> To: The Urth Mailing List <urth at lists.urth.net>
> Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 2:30:24 PM
> Subject: (urth) Evil Guest Reviewed in Washington Post SF Roundup
> 
> Alas, Wolfe didn't get his own review column this time, though of
> course the Post is generally pretty good to him - our own Nick Gevers
> had a Wolfe piece there some time ago, and Post critic Michael Dirda
> is something of a Wolfe fan.
> 
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/09/AR200810090253
> 7.html
> 
> -Matt
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