The Politics Of Gene Wolfe

Gerry Quinn · 03 Jul 2010, 15:17 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: gerryq at indigo.ie (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 16:17:31 +0100
Subject: (urth) The Politics Of Gene Wolfe
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From: "David Stockhoff" <dstockhoff at verizon.net>

> Exactly my thought. Dystopian government is an old SF theme. Depicting 
> evil government agents says nothing about your beliefs.


And you might favour givoing arms to the populace in Viron without 
necessarily approving of it under all circumstances everywhere.

- Gerry Quinn

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