Gummed-Up Works or Got Lives?

António Pedro Marques · 15 Dec 2011, 15:00 · from 2011-December.txt.gz

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Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:00:40 +0000
Subject: (urth) Gummed-Up Works or Got Lives?
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Gerry Quinn wrote (15-12-2011 14:34):
> However, that is by-the-by.  While genre categorisation arguments can get a
> bit silly, especially with a genre-mixing author like Wolfe, I would argue
> that BotNS is not really part of the ?swords and sorcery? genre, even though
> it does indeed contain swords* and sorcery, and indeed certain episodes
> (e.g. the mine with the man-apes) that would fit comfortably into the
> genre.  It?s not _about_ the swords and sorcery.

Again curiously, the scene with the man-apes felt more like early sf or lost 
race fiction to me.

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