Gene Wolfe: Book of the New Sun

Tim Maroney · 14 Feb 1986, 18:33 · from net.sf-lovers.1986.mbox

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From: tim at hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Subject: Re: Re: Gene Wolfe: Book of the New Sun
Date: Fri, 14-Feb-86 13:33:27 EST
Message-ID: <527 at hoptoad.uucp>
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
References: <194 at analog.UUCP> <3840005 at csd2.UUCP> <651 at edison.UUCP> <1808 at hammer.UUCP>

In article <1808 at hammer.UUCP> patcl at hammer.UUCP (Pat Clancy) writes:
>>Insert rasberry here...
>>I read Shadow of the Torturer and thought it was horrible.
>
>I'll second that!  This was an outstandingly bad novel.
>Yet it seems that every year or so the Wulf-cultists must
>issue forth onto the net to demonstrate why there's such
>a large and uncritical market for so much bad SF.

This "cult" happens to include more than half of the SFWA, the Science
Fiction Writers of America, as evidenced by the Nebula selections.  I would
hardly call the SFWA uncritical, or large for that matter.  Perhaps the
writers know something you don't?  (There, we're even insult for insult.)

Tim Maroney, Electronic Village Idiot

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