Shadow, Chapter X

Gwern Branwen · 23 Mar 2012, 18:38 · from 2012-March.txt.gz

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From: gwern0 at gmail.com (Gwern Branwen)
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:38:51 -0400
Subject: (urth) Shadow, Chapter X
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And John C. Wright, whom we have seen discussing Wolfe before, has
picked it up and excerpted it:
http://www.scifiwright.com/2012/03/nor-the-summers-as-golden-by-gene-wolfe/

> An excerpt from Gene Wolfe?s mediation on how to write a multi-volume novel. The original is here: http://www.gwern.net/docs/2007-wolfe
>
> Since just last night I encountered a grave difficulty with my own multivolume work THE UNWITHERING WORLD with the setting, I thought it was providential that I should come across this. The words below are Wolfe?s (or Homer?s or Kipling?s) but not mine, and he is the finest novelist alive today, in or out of genre.

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