shadow of the torturer and thomas co - (nf)

fantods · 29 Jun 1983, 20:17 · from net.sf-lovers.1983.mbox

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From: TOPAZ:fantods at ucbvax.UUCP
Subject: Re: shadow of the torturer and thomas co - (nf)
Date: Wed, 29-Jun-83 16:17:22 EDT
Message-ID: <214 at ucbtopaz.UUCP>
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers

Donaldson I can't read, Wolfe I can.  Donaldson uses language to
obscure and deflate everything--Wolfe seems to somehow make everything
more complex and resonant, ecstatically precise.  I admit that I
couldn't really identify with Severian very much, but I was carried
along by other things.

Anything I read by Poul Anderson seems to be a pastiche of greatness,
but never quite achieves greatness.  Please send me examples of his
"great" stuff.  I probably missed it while I was plowing through
one or another of his titles picked out at random.  He has a lot of them!

Richard

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