Ask Gene Wolfe

m.driussi · 12 May 1997, 20:30 · from whorl-v0005.mbox · original

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From: m.driussi at genie.com
Subject: (whorl) Ask Gene Wolfe
Date: Mon, 12 May 97 20:30:00 GMT
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[Posted from WHORL, the mailing list for Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun]

Attention ladies and gentlemen, lurkers and larkers, et cetera, et
ali, and all ships at sea.

In my regular correspondence with Gene Wolfe I asked him if he would
have the time for a round-table interview (about THE BOOK OF THE LONG
SUN) by snail mail, composed of questions from the Whorl list
audience.  He has agreed to this scheme, writing, "Collect some
questions and I'll proceed to dodge them."

Okay!  So here are the rules: interested parties should individually
come up with the one question they would most like to ask and post it to
the whorl list asap.  I would like to get something in the mail by
Friday, so we'll assume that is when the train is leaving the
station--the response and the next train would come a few weeks later.
Please limit the question to THE BOOK OF THE LONG SUN, and
(as we normally do anyway), be sure to cite the text if the question is
tied into a particular scene or scenes.

I'm thinking that each person can get in one question per round.
(Conditional follow-up questions can probably be appended.  I'll
judge on a case-by-case basis, so go ahead and include the follow-up
if you have it in mind.)

Don't be scared, don't be shy!

=3Dmantis=3D

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