Wolfe at Dragon*Con (AEG)

Allan Anderson · 09 Sep 2009, 14:47 · from 2009-September.txt.gz

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From: rubel at goosemoon.org (Allan Anderson)
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 07:47:34 -0700
Subject: (urth) Wolfe at Dragon*Con (AEG)
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Ah, that *does* help me shed a bit of the "wtf" feeling that came over  
me at the end of my non-analytic reading of AEG. There are certainly  
other explanations, but this one is very interesting.

Much like the rest of your details of your con experience! Thank  you  
for relating them to us.

On Sep 9, 2009, at 7:40 AM, James Wynn wrote:

>> Here's some AEG grist for the mill. Wolfe talked about how much he  
>> enjoyed Cassie in "An Evil Guest". This is how he described the end  
>> of the novel: "Cassie loved Bill Riese and at the end of the novel  
>> she goes to Woldercon to look for him."
>
> Look, maybe this has already been said, but don't recall it. I  
> thought I'd surely get a reaction on this quote so I'm going up the  
> ante. For reasons, that would be compelling only to me, the death of  
> Bill Reise at the end of AEG really sat wrong with me. It struck me  
> as totally random. But if the person killed on the island were  
> Gideon Chase in disguise, it makes perfectly good sense. Also, Bill  
> Reise avowing his love for Cassie at his death seemed so out-of- 
> character.
>
> So when Wolfe said this in the panel on Fictional Characters, a  
> series of tumblers fell into place in my head. It was Bill Reise  
> disguised as Gideon Chase who left for Woldercon at the end of AEG.  
> Cassie didn't go to Woldercon merely to get her mojo back (although  
> she would probably need to in order to win Reise).
>
> I'm not prepared to prove it is so, but I really *really* makes  
> sense that it would be that way.
>
> J.
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