Wolfe in Vollmann

Marc Aramini · 23 Apr 2018, 16:49 · from 2018-April.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at gmail.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 09:49:21 -0700
Subject: (urth) Wolfe in Vollmann
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Cool - one of his early novels felt very SFnal (You Bright and Risen
Angels) - I've read that and what he released of his Seven American Dreams
(but I can't get into his work on prostitutes - maybe some day).

On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 8:54 AM, Robert Pirkola <rpirkola at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> I just received my copy of William T. Vollmann's *No Immediate Danger:
> Volume One of Carbon Ideologies* and was pleasantly surprised to find one
> of my top-five favorite writers quoting another -- Gene Wolfe!  It contains
> this epigraph:
>
> "We all have in us the ghosts of long-vanished things, of fallen cities
> and marvelous machines.  Gene Wolfe, 1982"
>
> For ease of reference it is from *The Sword of the Lictor*, Chapter XXVI,
> Above the Jungle.
>
> Vollmann has read widely in science fiction starting in the late 1960's
> and has cited James Blish's *Cities In Flight* as amongst his favorite
> books.  Obviously, he has not idly consumed the Book of the New Sun as well.
>
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