Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!lsuc!pesnta!pyramid!ut-sally!topaz!caip!daemon From: BROTHERS@CS.COLUMBIA.EDU@caip.RUTGERS.EDU Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Wolfe the best? Message-ID: <1200@caip.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Wed, 5-Feb-86 12:07:02 EST Article-I.D.: caip.1200 Posted: Wed Feb 5 12:07:02 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 6-Feb-86 20:03:28 EST Sender: daemon@caip.RUTGERS.EDU Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 19 From: Laurence Brothers Well, Wolfe is obviously a great novelist, and the New Sun is undoubtedly the apex of his work so far (Free Live Free was fun, but not great), but I don't think that he is "hands-down" the best sf novelist. The New Sun supernovel had some flaws (though the work is so intricate it is very hard to tell whether something is a bug or a feature), and I didn't think all that much of The Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories and Other Stories (admittedly because I didn't understand much of it). Basically, I don't think that Wolfe has produced enough to make him the Best of the Best--The Book of the New Sun is a tour-de-force until he produces more novels of the same stature. -Laurence (back on the net after 9 months...) -------