Gideon

Roy C. Lackey · 08 Jan 2009, 20:12 · from 2009-January.txt.gz

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From: rclackey at stic.net (Roy C. Lackey)
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 14:12:27 -0600
Subject: (urth) Gideon
References: <1bf4dd40901080946j510c582es1fdfb47388936151 at mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <00d401c971cd$738ca000$09cf4a0c@rclackey>

Dave Tallman, quoting Wolfe interview:
> "Gideon Chase is, well, Gideon Chase. A wizard, almost human, and so
> slick he can slide up a flagpole. Laws and societal restraints mean little
> to him. He loses a leg, but in a way he is freest of all."

Not incidentally, that quote all but cements the earlier assumption that one
of Gid's biological parents, probably the father, was not human.

-Roy

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