Urth Net
Peace (spoilers)
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At 06:04 PM 8/10/00 GMT, Christopher Culver wrote:
Pat. Nut. wrote:
<Dire interpretations of Wolfe events are tempting, but recall how often they have been wrong. Weer in Peace was supposed to be a multiple murderer, according to some, until Wolfe said that was nonsense.>
Wolfe may have said that about the multiple murderer hypothesis, but in one interview he said the reader would have to figure out for himself if Weer killed the librarian, and he didn't say that suspicion of that would be nonsense.
Also, Weir could have killed multiple people without being a "multiple murderer". The young boy and the man who was locked in the freezer could both easily have been accidents, and I don't know if he did kill the librarian; even if he did, that might conceivably not have been murder if she'd had a weapon--I don't remember the details well, and I'm sure many of them are well-hidden.
Wombat, a.k.a. Kevin Maroney kmaroney at ungames.com
Kitchen Staff Supervisor, New York Review of Science Fiction
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