new academic piece on Wolfe
Just noticed that the Summer 1999 issue of Extrapolation (40:2) contains a piece by John Gerlach entitled
'The rhetoric of an impossible object: gods, chems, and science fantasy in Gene Wolfe's 'Book of the Long Sun'.
Not having easy access to this journal I downloaded it from the website of www.northernlight.com. This is a service that provides pay-per-view access to news, business, and scholarly articles. I downloaded the piece for 2.95 dollars. Note that it looked as though Mantis' Posthistory 101 piece is also available for paid download, for those who haven't got access to 'Extrapolation'.
I must admit to being very busy so I haven't read it yet. I noted that the footnotes credit our little community. Are you out there John Gerlach?
Will be adding this piece to the Ultan's Library bibliography as soon as possible.
Jonathan
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Jonathan Laidlow
University of Birmingham, UK
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