Wolfe ebooks & stories

Jerry Friedman · 08 Mar 2010, 05:33 · from 2010-March.txt.gz

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From: jerry_friedman at yahoo.com (Jerry Friedman)
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 21:33:35 -0800 (PST)
Subject: (urth) Wolfe ebooks & stories
In-Reply-To: <4B946CC0.9050504 at io.com>
Message-ID: <587860.82992.qm at web50706.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

--- On Sun, 3/7/10, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> wrote:
> On 3/7/2010 7:16 PM, Rebecca
> Bushong-Taylor wrote:
> > Thanks, Matt.
> > 
> > I looked up the SFRev archives, and sent Gene the
> story, author blurb
> > and dates in the slight event that it might have
> slipped his mind.? He
> > said...
> > 
> > It's from the 4/18/03 issue.? That issue calls it
> a classic reprint, but
> > I was unable to locate the source.? Or supposed
> source.? Granted I am
> > not a good web-searcher by any means.? Rev. SF
> does indeed use my byline
> > and includes a brief bio that is clearly mine.?
> > Either the editor was fooled or he was fooling.
> >? ? ? ? ? ? Gene
> > 
> > It's definitely a fake.? So, who wrote it and
> where did it come from?
> > 
> > Rebecca
> 
> 
> I am a fellow matriculant at Texas A&M and a couple of
> years ago I met Bill Page at his home, the infamous Monkey
> House. Bill is one of the curators of the University's SF
> collections, and listed "Easter Sunday" in his bibliographic
> history AGGIELAND/FANTASYLAND, presumably compiled from the
> original local and university publications.
> 
> > Wolfe, Gene, "Easter Sunday," Commentator 4(4): 6, 26
> (March 1951).
> > Minister meets a political exile, Satan.
> > This is _the_ Gene Wolfe, award-winning sf writer.
> 
> I've e-mailed Bill about the disclaim and to see if the
> original publication can be looked at.

An amusing way to play a hoax would be to find out the
title of an undergraduate story by a famous writer,
forge a story that matches it, and claim to have
rediscovered it.  Somebody did something like that
with Nabokov.  Of course, the famous writer and
anyone who paid money to read the hoax might or might
not find it amusing.

Not that that's the only possibility for "Easter
Sunday".

Jerry Friedman

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