Bruce Powe

[KENNETH HOUGHTON]

     Interesting.  A search for Powe on the web shows him to be mostly 
     related to explicating McLuhan.
     
     He's also listed in one sf database as writing under the pseudonym of 
     "Ellis Portal," but I couldn't find him at all in the ISFDB, which is 
     extensive enough to list nearly everyone who has ever published 
     something in a magazine of or about sf (speaking from experience-- 
     though I note they're missing two of my wife's sales [both to original 
     anthologies from Tor]).
     
     Amazon lists 8 works by Powe (none by his pseudonym), all "Back Order" 
     or "Hard to Find," with one accompanied by a review vituperative 
     enough to make me, at least, want to find a copy of the book.  (Then 
     again, the mere concept of "avant garde poets in East Texas" is 
     encouraging.)
     
     
     
     "This book was so hyped by its publisher that I imagined I'd be 
     reading a Third Millennium, ultra-cool, cyber-hip James Joyce...or at 
     the very least a thinking man's William Gibson. Instead I found the 
     sophomoric maunderings of a rather precious adolescent under the 
     impression that he's forging ahead through new territory, when he's 
     merely churning out platitudes or recycling weary old McLuhanisms, and 
     convinced that he's innovating a brave new literary form, when he's 
     just cobbling together what sound like the exercises in style of 
     someone who flunked a creative writing course run by unpublished avant 
     garde poets in East Texas....The state of literature up in Canda must 
     be in very poor shape indeed for something like theis [sic] to escape 
     their editors attention."
     
     Sounds as if the review will at least be interesting.


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Subject: M&D to be reviewed ...
Author:  paul.murphy at utoronto.ca (Paul Murphy) at dbnaccip
Date:    5/16/97 1:51 PM


It looks like M&D will get the lead review in The (Toronto) Globe and 
Mail's books section tomorrow -- a blurb in today's paper promises: "Bruce 
Powe analyzes M&D in the way it should be analyzed: encyclopedically". The 
Globe's website (www.TheGlobeAndMail.com) is rather limited, so I'm not 
sure if the review will be posted there.
     
Cheers,
Paul