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From: wfi@rti-sel.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Gene Wolfe: Book of the New Sun
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Date: Mon, 3-Feb-86 17:34:35 EST
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In article <3840005@csd2.UUCP> krantz@csd2.UUCP (Michaelntz) writes:

>Gene Wolfe is, quite simply, the best novelist ever to write in the
>science fiction genre.  His prose, his ideas - all of it.  The 
>best.  Hands down.

I'd also like to recommend (again) to net.sf-lovers readers the
excellent "Fifth Head Of Cerberus."

I think Wolfe's being the "best SF novelist ever" is debatable (probably
endlessly :-). Although Stanislaw Lem's books are uneven in quality,
at his best I think he's a match for Wolfe. Based, of course, on the
translations that are available of his work. Try the "Cyberiad" or
"Solaris," "Memoirs Found In A Bathtub" or "The Futurological
Congress". Or his stranger works like "A Perfect Vacuum."

                               -- Cheers, Bill Ingogly