new Wolfe interview

Greg Bates · 20 Jan 2011, 04:22 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: gregory.a.bates at gmail.com (Greg Bates)
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 23:22:52 -0500
Subject: (urth) new Wolfe interview
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Oh, i'm absolutely certain i've completely misunderstood it. Partially
because I didn't feel there was that much to misunderstand, which is always
a sign with Wolfe that I haven't paid enough attention.

For what it's worth, I liked it better than AEG but probably not as much as
TSH. I feel like it started out really strongly, but gets completely bogged
down halfway through (the action starts to disappear and get replaced with
extremely long conversations where it feels like Skip is just explaining the
same things to different people). The ending also felt very left-field and
tacked on, which of course means I missed something. After I finish a couple
other books I got with my Kindle gift card i'll revisit it (hopefully with a
bit of clarifying discussion from this board.)

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Gerry Quinn <gerryq at indigo.ie> wrote:

>   ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Matthew Keeley <matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com>
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
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>> >
>> http://io9.com/5736063/gene-wolfe-talks-dystopian-futures-and-the-chances-of-star+drive-in-our-lifetime?skyline=true&s=i
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>> I think this is the third time this interview has been posted.
>>
> Surely this is the first time the list has repeated itself?
>
>
> In this cycle anyway ;-)
>
> - Gerry Quinn
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