Wolfe at Readercon

Adam Stephanides · 08 Aug 2003, 18:39 · from urth-v0308.mbox · original

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From: Adam Stephanides <adamsteph at earthlink.net>
Subject: (urth) Wolfe at Readercon
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 13:39:06 -0500
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In the archives to HogBlog (http://www.koschei.net/blog/ July 15, 2003), I
came across the following description of Wolfe's talk on Catholicism and SF
at Readercon: "Gene Wolfe gave a very spirited account of the influence of
redemption on his work; no-one, not even a villain, is beyond redemption.
No-one, he says, goes around in life thinking 'I'm a bad person.' He then
launched into an improvised impersonation of an actual bad person, in the
course of which I began seriously to wonder if he was going to punch through
the floor with his cane."  Unfortunately, that's all the detail it gives.

--Adam

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