Short Story 78*: A Criminal Proceeding

Marc Aramini · 25 Aug 2014, 20:10 · from 2014-August.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at gmail.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 13:10:02 -0700
Subject: (urth) Short Story 78*: A Criminal Proceeding
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No problem, I appreciate your close reading. I was on the lookout for
things like the House of 31 February and got overzealous.  I am glad you
are reading them over! My pace has accelerated lately so I am bound to make
some mistakes that need editing and rethinking.

Waiting for a primary source to arrive in the mail with the Philip Rahv
essay mentioned in "My Book" and I will finish up the write up on Redwood
Coast Roamer/Four Wolves as one entry, do an entry on Bibliomen, the
four novellas I skipped in the 70s (two of which are going to be a bit of a
nightmare), a New Sun Essay which I probably won't post on the list, and I
will be halfway through.  Quite a relief.  Anything you notice please bring
it to our attention.

Wolfe's short fiction in the 90s seems unusually difficult after the
relative "lightness" of most of the work in the 80s, but he was not as
prolific in that decade.   After Short Sun I think his short fiction became
somewhat easier and more thematic again, with a few notable exceptions that
approach his most difficult work.

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Robert Pirkola <rpirkola at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> I have never been terribly good at remembering such things myself.  That
> coupled with the fact that one never knows in sf if common facts are being
> tweaked for narrative purposes, so when I read that in your commentary I
> went back to the story and couldn't find anything in there and so on and so
> on.  Just clarifying for the sake of the posters in posterity.
>
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