Wolfe at Readercon

James Wynn · 21 Jul 2009, 14:10 · from 2009-July.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:10:13 -0500
Subject: (urth) Wolfe at Readercon
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>Anything else, to me--unless superbly done (something Wolfe is quite 
>capable of)--
>would be meaningless windowdressing.

I like Sidon, but I it *does* feel odd that Sidon occurs after Latro has 
already returned home. The expectation is that the arc of the stories is 
Latro's attempt to "get back" and to reveal something of his past. So that 
he goes to Africa instead of Persia (or at least moves in that direction) 
just feels "off".

~ James

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