May 2014 Wolfe interview in _Technology Review_

Fernando Q. Gouvea · 28 Jul 2014, 13:02 · from 2014-July.txt.gz

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From: fqgouvea at colby.edu (Fernando Q. Gouvea)
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 09:02:17 -0400
Subject: (urth) May 2014 Wolfe interview in _Technology Review_
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It's a very interesting interview, much less cagey than usual for Wolfe. 
The straightforward "He's a ghost" about Weer, and even more the 
statement that Marsch "knows he's not a real Earthman, but he's trying 
to talk himself into believing that he is".

Fernando

On 7/27/2014 9:56 PM, Gwern Branwen wrote:
> TR has published a lengthy interview with Gene Wolfe. It asks plenty
> of standard questions, but also some interesting ones about some of
> the short stories which have come up recently, particularly "Tracking
> Song" and "The Hero as Werwolf".

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