Gene Wolfe interview in Locus

Brian Matthews · 05 Jun 1991, 06:36 · from rec.arts.sf-lovers.1991.mbox

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From: 6sigma2 at polari.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Subject: Re: Gene Wolfe interview in Locus
Date: 5 Jun 91 06:36:33 GMT
Message-ID: <4358 at polari.UUCP>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf-lovers
References: <1991May30.233326.5041 at tc.fluke.COM> <10723 at castle.ed.ac.uk> <1991Jun4.174051.6210 at tc.fluke.COM>

In article <1991Jun4.174051.6210 at tc.fluke.COM> mce at tc.fluke.COM (Brian McElhinney) writes:
|Perhaps the reason many people dislike LIVE FREE LIVE is not that it is such
|a bad novel, but that it is not a great novel, and Gene Wolfe has set us up
|to expect greatness.

I've always thought this was the problem too.  I happen to like
Free Live Free, but readily admit it's not nearly as good as Book of
the New Sun, for instance.  On the other hand, I've read very few
things as good as BotNS...

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