Wintry thoughts on Wolfe

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 20 Feb 2003, 23:09 · from urth-v0302.mbox · original

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From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <ddanehy at siebel.com>
Subject: RE: (urth) Wintry thoughts on Wolfe
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 16:09:44 -0700
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A couple of days ago, Mantis wrote:

> It would be easier (or should that be "possible"?) to=3D20
> approach this if I had some examples of a few authors inside=3D20
> and outside of genre who write fiction about love (monolithic=3D20
> or otherwise).  Fictions that you find convincing.

Really, I'm surprised nobody's mentioned either of the=3D20
obvious in-genre examples:

Sturgeon. Almost anything after about 1950 by Sturgeon.

But even more:=3D20

Le Guin. Especially TEHANU, but lots of her other stuff too=3D20
-- even LEFT HAND is, in an oblique way, a love story; and=3D20
there's a powerful love story driving THE DISPOSSESSED. In=3D20
fact, her fiction is in many ways a better example than=3D20
Sturgeon's, because Sturgeon was so busy analyzing and=3D20
dissecting love that, at times, the actual portrayal suffered;=3D20
plus, he was busy with "variations on the theme," while Le=3D20
Guin simply writes about people and those people sometimes=3D20
love each other.

(I find myself thinking "Surely Connie Willis," but, oddly,=3D20
I honestly can't think of a good example -- and ditto for
Octavia Estelle Butler.)

--Blattid


--=20

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