New interview

Gwern Branwen · 07 Jan 2009, 15:26 · from 2009-January.txt.gz

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From: gwern0 at gmail.com (Gwern Branwen)
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 10:26:14 -0500
Subject: (urth) New interview
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On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Craig Brewer  wrote:
> Thanks for the link.
>
> And just a tiny note: _Strange Horizons_ did their year in review. Unfortunately, this was the single Wolfe mention:
>
> "As to the worst of the year: both The Night Sessions by Ken MacLeod and Matter by Iain M. Banks were disappointing in comparison to their recent
> novels, but still readable. Which is more than can be said for An Evil Guest by Gene Wolfe, which is perhaps the worst thing he has written since his first novel, Operation Ares." -- Paul Kincaid
>
> http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2009/01/2008_in_review.shtml

I saw that one too. Perhaps it's just me - but AEG seems to have, for
a Wolfe, been absolutely savaged in the reviews.

Based on the Urth.net discussions, y'all seem to like it fairly well.
Intuitively, it seems to be getting as much discussion as either of
the Wizard-Knight or Pirate Freedom. (I haven't read it myself.)

What's behind this discrepancy?

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