_The Wizard_ by Gene Wolfe - too much like previous Wolfe

alexey_r · 08 Nov 2005, 15:55 · from rec.arts.sf.written.2005.mbox

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From: alexey_r at mail.ru
Subject: Re: _The Wizard_ by Gene Wolfe - too much like previous Wolfe
Date: 8 Nov 2005 07:55:40 -0800
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Thomas Lindgren wrote:
> 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?
>
> Best,
>                         Thomas
> --
> Thomas Lindgren
> "It's becoming popular? It must be in decline." -- Isaiah Berlin

Sorry, he is clearly already contracted for the Prime Minister of
Russia :)

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