My Experiences Writing Hoaxes by Gene Wolfe

Michael Andre-Driussi · 11 Feb 2002, 02:56 · from urth-v0202.mbox · original

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From: Michael Andre-Driussi <mantis at siriusfiction.com>
Subject: (urth) My Experiences Writing Hoaxes by Gene Wolfe
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 18:56:24 -0800
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Matthew Davis wrote:
>It was mentioned in one of Fantastic Metropolis's end of the year round-up=
s.
>Mike Moorcock got various authors to contribute and it was an interesting
>exercise, not least because quite a few of them seemed to be having more f=
un
>making up books than recommending genuine ones. The quotes from Wolfe in t=
he
>recommendation were something along the lines of "Note to myself: am I bei=
ng
>too recondite?" which seemed a little too deliberately bathetic to be true.

Thank you, Bibliographer!  Ah, so your sense is that it was a hoax?

=3Dmantis=3D


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