Nightside again, chapter one

Kevin J. Maroney · 13 Dec 1998, 14:50 · from whorl-v0009.mbox · original

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From: "Kevin J. Maroney" <kmaroney at crossover.com>
Subject: Re: (whorl) Nightside again, chapter one
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 14:50:34
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At 01:40 AM 12/13/98 -0500, William Ansley wrote:
>I found it a much more effective trick than the one Wolfe used
>in _Exodus from the Long Sun_ where the alert reader discovers that the
>person telling the story is Horn (when he refers to himself as "I" at one
>point). (I have to admit I wasn't a very alert reader; I didn't really
>notice this until it was pointed out to me in this list.)

I noticed it and assumed that it was a copyediting mistake until I got to
the end! I don't know what that says about me.
Wombat, a.k.a. Kevin Maroney kmaroney at crossover.com
Kitchen Staff Supervisor, New York Review of Science Fiction
http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/olp/nyrsf/nyrsf.html

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