Why NOT "A screaming comes across the sky"?

[Spencer T. Campbell]

>I agree.  I've never read a foreword I liked, nor one that wasn't better
>suited for reading *after* reading the novel itself.

While Nabokov's on the mind, the Martin Amis forward to whatever
edition of Lolita I have is excellent, and deepened my understanding
of the novel.  And Nabokov's afterward to that book is indispensable.
A-and Lolita's got one of my favorite first paragraphs.

On 9/2/06, James Kyllo <jkyllo at gmail.com> wrote:
> "The Fifth Head of Cerberus" is a good one from the 70s
>
> On 9/1/06, 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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