The Snootiness of Gene Wolfe's fans

William December Starr · 01 Mar 2004, 20:47 · from rec.arts.sf.written.2004.mbox

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From: wdstarr at panix.com (William December Starr)
Subject: Re: The Snootiness of Gene Wolfe's fans
Date: 1 Mar 2004 15:47:34 -0500
Message-ID: <c207h6$m91$1 at panix2.panix.com>
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> I'm not a tremendous Wolfe fan, but I think there's something fine
> and pulpy about duelling with poisonous hypnotic flowers, or
> beaches so old that their sand is all specs of broken glass, or (a
> bit more subtly) people living out their lives in a palace waiting
> room.

Huh.  I thought that that last one was probably the _least_ subtle,
most in-your-face farcical suspension-of-disbelief breaker in the
whole Book of the New Sun series.

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