Gene Wolfe Books

Evelyn C. Leeper · 21 Nov 2005, 14:38 · from rec.arts.sf.written.2005.mbox

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From: "Evelyn C. Leeper" <eleeper at optonline.net>
Subject: Re: Gene Wolfe Books
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 09:38:23 -0500
Message-ID: <rZkgf.1264$Jq4.1034 at fe09.lga>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
References: <2dkgf.27307$rc7.1415 at fe12.lga> <dlslhc$rd$1 at reader2.panix.com>

Nancy Lebovitz wrote:

> In article <2dkgf.27307$rc7.1415 at fe12.lga>,
> Evelyn C. Leeper <eleeper at optonline.net> wrote:
> 
>>Assume one has the following books by Gene Wolfe and is trying to trim 
>>down one's collection:
>>	Book of the New Sun (4 vols.)
>>	Devil in a Forest
>>	Fifth Head of Cerberus
>>	Nightside the Long Sun
>>	Soldier of the Mist
>>	Urth of the New Sun
>>
>>Which would people say are his major works and which could be gotten rid 
>>of?  (Yes, I know some will say "keep everything", but that way lies 
>>madness.)
> 
> 
> Do I gather you haven't read some or all of them so that you aren't sure
> what you'd want to reread or refer to?

Correct.  I think the only Wolfe I have read are short stories (those 
collections I will keep).

My initial implulse is to keep BotS and get rid of the rest.  (We have 
reached a point when we are really trying to at least hold the line on 
the book volume in the house.  This concept is, of course, a whole 
nother thread.  As are infixes.)

-- 
Evelyn C. Leeper
A passionate commitment to social justice is no substitute for
knowing what the hell you're talking about.  --Thomas Sowell

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