Gene Wolfe"s PEACE

jsq · 12 Sep 1983, 07:07 · from net.books.1983.mbox

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From: jsq at ut-sally.UUCP
Subject: Re: Gene Wolfe"s PEACE
Date: Mon, 12-Sep-83 03:07:43 EDT
Message-ID: <242 at ut-sally.UUCP>
Newsgroups: net.books
References: <267 at mprvaxa.UUCP> <2001 at watarts.UUCP>

Like you, when I reread Gene Wolfe's Fifth Head of Cerberus
I was convinced I remembered it from childhood.  Part way through,
I recognized it as a story that I had occasionally had dreams about
ever since I read it when I was 14 or so.  Through the rest of the
reading, the scenes would come to memory as if I were being reminded
of the actual events, rather than of having read about them.

Nobody has mentioned Chinua Achebe.  Everything of his I have read
is excellent, in particular No Longer at Ease.  He's a Nigerian from
Iboland and has interesting viewpoints on cross-cultural contacts.

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