_The Wizard_ by Gene Wolfe - too much like previous Wolfe

Mike Schilling · 07 Nov 2005, 23:21 · from rec.arts.sf.written.2005.mbox

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From: "Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: _The Wizard_ by Gene Wolfe - too much like previous Wolfe
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 23:21:10 GMT
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"Thomas Lindgren" <***********@*****.***> wrote in message 
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> Steve Simmons <scs at not.di.these.org.words> writes:
>
>> For some reason, people who don't get Wolfe seem to realize that there's
>> something in there that they just didn't get.  Most other authors that
>> people don't get they don't get that they don't get.
>
> You wouldn't be looking for a post as Secretary of Defense, would you?

Dammit, you evaluate an author with the preconceptions you've got, not the 
ones you'd like to have.

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