Free Live Free

David Stockhoff · 10 Apr 2014, 00:19 · from 2014-April.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 20:19:35 -0400
Subject: (urth) Free Live Free
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That's one of my all-time favorites.

On 4/9/2014 8:10 PM, Antonin Scriabin wrote:
>
> First, I just finished and loved this book. The characters were 
> wonderful, and it was quite funny. I also loved Castleview, so I am 
> looking forward to the other member of that "era" in Wolfe's oeuvre, 
> There Are Doors.
>
> I have a first printing of the 1985 hardback from Gollancz, which 
> doesn't have the timeline. Is this floating around online anywhere? Is 
> it something Wolfe himself put together? Does it shine light on 
> anything important?
>
> Finally, did it cross anyone else's mind that the characters never 
> left (or were always in) Belmont? It's a pretty cheap trick, and 
> probably not the case, but I kept getting the feeling that they were 
> all running in place somehow. I also just watched The Machinist, so 
> maybe that has me paranoid.
>
>
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