Why NOT "A screaming comes across the sky"?

Chris Broderick elsuperfantastico at yahoo.com
Fri Sep 1 16:33:47 CDT 2006


If you're willing to tackle a rather complex 4-volume
series, start with the Book of the New Sun.  If you
want to start with something on a smaller scale, I'd
get his collection The Island of Doctor Death and
Other Stories and Other Stories.

-Chris

--- Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:

> --- Chris Broderick <elsuperfantastico at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Gene Wolfe is a fine writer....
> 
> I've been on an old skool SF kick for a while now
> (e.g., Clifford Simak, City; Alfred Bester, The
> Demolished Man; Hal Clement, Mission of Gravity,
> Cycle
> of Fire; uh, 70s/80s Frederik Pohl, but, still,
> Frederik Pohl), influnced not in the least by the
> very
> wonderful Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestials ...
> 
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barlowe's_Guide_to_Extraterrestrials
> 
> ... but Wolfe, while I've seen his name often
> enough,
> I don't think I've read, unless maybe something in
> the
> old issues of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science
> Fiction I got from my grandpa (which I've been
> hunting
> for for that "Motorman's Glove" story). 
> Recommendations?
> 
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