If I already like ...

David Stockhoff · 26 Apr 2012, 01:44 · from 2012-April.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:44:04 -0400
Subject: (urth) If I already like ...
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Antonio

I've just finished House on the Borderlands. I can't help but be 
reminded of Master Ash in his ice-doomed time-tower.

Otherwise, I see no resemblances to anything Wolfe has done except 
perhaps for the gothic (and hoary) touch of the "recovered manuscript."

On 4/18/2012 8:11 AM, Ant?nio Pedro Marques wrote:
> David Stockhoff wrote (18-04-2012 13:00):
>> On 4/18/2012 1:26 AM, pinlighter wrote:
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Stockhoff"
>>> <dstockhoff at verizon.net>
>>>
>>>>> .. William Hope Hodgson is great background to some of Wolfe's
>>>>> horror elements - I'm loving getting familiar with him. (Lovecraft
>>>>> goes here too, of course.)
>>>
>>> Uh, not really. Where is Hodgson's influence on Wolfe???
>>>
>>> Lovecraft, yes, of course
>>
>> The extreme futurity and the giant slow-moving evil Beings from outer
>> space do feel familiar. And the Redoubt is a bit like Byzantium toward
>> the end, hyper-romanticized of course, and thus Nessus as well. But
>> that's about all the connections I see.
>
> You mean 'The House on the Borderland'? I don't find the themes or the
> settings familiar, but there may be something about the 'tone', 
> whatever that is.
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