Morgan/Wolfe

Rob Thornton · 13 Feb 2009, 14:25 · from 2009-February.txt.gz

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From: oblate777 at gmail.com (Rob Thornton)
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:25:14 -0500
Subject: (urth) Morgan/Wolfe
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On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Lane Haygood <lhaygood at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have it on my "to read" list.  I'll report in when I'm finished.
> But... I don't think it's going to be Wolfean, at least not from the
> description I read.
> -L.

Richard K. Morgan reminded me of cyberpunk. The closest authors to
Wolfe in my mind (in terms of prose style) are Paul Park and John
Crowley, though I don't think that anyone in F/SF can beat Wolfe in
creating unreliable narratives. The only non-SF author that comes to
mind is Ford Madox Ford ("The Good Soldier").

rob t.

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