Gene Wolfe's "The Knight"

Michael Grosberg · 22 Oct 2003, 13:04 · from rec.arts.sf.written.2003.mbox

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: preacher_mg at hotmail.com (Michael Grosberg)
Subject: Re: Gene Wolfe's "The Knight"
Date: 22 Oct 2003 06:04:35 -0700
Message-ID: <c21d3ba0.0310220504.2ff92551 at posting.google.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
References: <93f95679.0310191732.3a4a2bac at posting.google.com> <uot6pv4ha840htqfh9np7shgbdd5s490m9 at 4ax.com>

> wrote:
> 
> >I saw this listed on Amazon.com, though its not yet availaible.  Any
> >word on what its about?
> >
> >Steve Moss
> 
> From the back cover of "The Knight" (advance reading copy):
> 
> "A young boy, in his mid-teens, passes from our world to a magical
> realm of five worlds, where he is quickly transformed physically into
> the body of a mature man of heroic proportions. Yet inside he remains
> a boy, while circumstances force him to act as a man, and to set off
> on a quest to find his destined sword and become a knight. His quest
> is filled with danger and adventure, giants, elves, and dragons. And
> also love."
> 
> It also has various Norse gods and a bunch of Arthurian prototypes and
> is much easier to digest than the average work by this often-difficult
> writer.
> 

Oh brother. I relly hope this is some sort of tongue-in-cheek work
because otherwise it sounds like the epitome of juvenile wish
fulfilment EFP.
Unless of course it's a mainstream work about a boy addicted to
playing EverQuest.

An unofficial mirror of a public mailing list · about & removal requests · download the archive · before the list · original archive at urth.net