Mythic Women in BotNS

James Wynn · 26 Jan 2011, 20:22 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:22:07 -0600
Subject: (urth) Mythic Women in BotNS
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>> So far, every Wolfe novel I have read is the memoir of a person who is a legend in their own time, and apparently after, who is mostly clueless to the fact.
> Peace? There Are Doors? Castleview? Pandora, by Holly Hollander?

There's Sorcerer's House, An Evil Guest and Pirate Freedom, as well. 
But, let's face it, Severian, Silk/the Rajan, Latro, and Able are 
probably easily in the top 5 of the vast's Lupine heroes, so there's 
that.  On the other hand, they might well not be Wolfe's favorites which 
could arguably be Alden Weer, Green, Cassie Casey. So maybe its not 
Wolfe's fault, but his audience's, that his most popular protagonists 
are so similar.

Of course, there's much more variety in his short stories.

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