Gene Wolfe's "The Knight"

Eric Walker · 22 Oct 2003, 20:43 · from rec.arts.sf.written.2003.mbox

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From: "Eric Walker" <sfandf at owlcroft.com>
Subject: Re: Gene Wolfe's "The Knight"
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:43:07 -0700 (PDT)
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Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
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On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 14:48:54 -0400, jere7my tho?rpe wrote:

[...]

>     There are no writers I trust to turn banal genre 
>expectations on their ear more than Gene Wolfe.  _The Book of 
>the Long Sun_ isn't just another generation-starship novel, 
>after all.

Just so.  I would not place much credence in back-cover blurbs, 
but I would place a lot of credence in an established author's 
history.


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