SF?

[Adam J. Thornton]

> Not to mention Gene Wolfe, a writer of enormous skill, subtlety and 
> intelligence. I'm deeply suspicious of the fact that no-one has ever 
> seen Wolfe and Pynchon in the same room... Wolfe trained as an 
> engineer (as did Pynchon at first), but he is as far removed from one 
> of those scienctists-turned-hack-authors who (dis)graced the early 
> days of the SF pulps as one can get. IMHO a better writer than Dick, 
> le Guin or Delany, and that's saying a helluva lot. I've said this on 
> the list before, but Pynchon enthusiasts could do worse than to read 
> Wolfe's _The Book of the New Sun_. It's a four-volume anti-epic, 
> comprising _The Shadow of the Torturer_, _The Claw of the Conciliator_, 
> _The Sword of the Lictor_ and _The Citadel of the Autarch_. Don't be 
> put off by any superficial resemblances to yet another multi-volume 
> fantasy/SF epic. It's utterly, utterly unique.

You ever see Catholic Neoplatonism in the guise of an SF epic?  Catholic
Neoplatonism heavily informed by Borges?  Borgesian Catholic Neoplatonism
in a very, very, very far future Buenos Aires?

Yep.

Adam
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