Wolfe ebooks & stories

Rebecca Bushong-Taylor · 24 Mar 2010, 04:32 · from 2010-March.txt.gz

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From: rebeccabt01 at gmail.com (Rebecca Bushong-Taylor)
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:32:49 -0500
Subject: (urth) Wolfe ebooks & stories
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Initially, Gene didn't remember writing it.  It was one of several short
pieces he wrote while he was quite young and a student.  When I suggested
that it seemed a little heavy-handed and obvious for him, he simply said,
"I've written worse".  I'm still wondering what he had in mind....

Rebecca

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:42 PM, jeff <killbabykill2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Gwern Branwen wrote:
> >Checking the PDF leads me to
> >http://www.revolutionsf.com/fiction/eastersunday/01.html
>
> >Which definitely puts itself forth as by Gene Wolfe. The style is
> >similar, but the twist strikes me as not particularly in Wolfe's vein,
> >but also not implausible enough that I could confidently say it wasn't
> >Wolfe.
>
> >But are you/Wolfe *sure* he didn't write it?
>
> Reading this story sparked a major deja-vu moment for me. I read a story
> decades ago in Isaac Asimov's "100 Great Fantasy Short Short Stories" that
> follows this story almost exactly. After some digging around on the net (I
> don't have the book anymore) I found that the story I remembered is
> "Displaced Person" by Eric Frank Russell, originally written for Weird Tales
> in 1948.
>
> I can't find it posted anywhere online. As I recall in the Russell story it
> wasn't a priest who sits down next to the exile, and in keeping with the
> time it was written, the man at first mistakes the stranger for a refugee
> from Europe. The twist was exactly the same, except the stranger just says
> who he really is. I remember it as better written than "Easter Sunday",
> which I actually hope now *wasn't* written by Wolfe.
>
>
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