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From: guy@slu70.UUCP (Guy M. Smith)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Gene Wolfe: Book of the New Sun
Message-ID: <149@slu70.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 6-Feb-86 13:40:12 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  6 13:40:12 1986
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References: <194@analog.UUCP> <3840005@csd2.UUCP> <11683@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1090@watmath.UUCP>
Organization: Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO
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Summary: ditto

In article <1090@watmath.UUCP>, jagardner@watmath.UUCP (Jim Gardner) writes:
> I can think of nothing that approaches it.  I can think of no other
> book that would move me to such a trite-sounding contentious statement.

Ditto for me. In terms of a fully realized alternate world, the only book that
I know of that is in the same class as the New Sun is Lord of the Rings. I
wouldn't attempt to try to compare the two directly as the authors were trying
to do such different things. Someone else may be braver. As for Wolfe, anyone
who can make a sympathetic character out of a torturer has got to be good.