1. A few Good Friday thoughts on a great writer who died this week, Gene Wolfe. Never read Gene Wolfe? You're still in his debt if you've ever enjoyed Pringles stacked potato chips. He helped invent those.
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Almost dismayed I haven't heard of him. Adding the book to the ever-growing pile, thanks for the recommendation.
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Read, let it gestate, then re-read. But don't listen to me; listen to Neil Gaiman: https://www.sfsite.com/fsf/2007/gwng0704.htm …
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Hee hee... as I was reading that I though "Catholicism and science fiction? You mean Liz Bruenig?" And sure enough the first person you tagged...
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Thanks, Jeet, for this informative (and enthusiastic) appraisal of Wolfe's work.
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I’m guessing you know this, but he was a great proponent of Avram Davidson’s writing, as was another of your favorites, Guy Davenport.
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Yes, I'm hoping someone publishes the Davenport/Davidson correspondence one day
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This is a very good article. I think that The Book Of The Long Sun is better (and more important to Wolfe) than the New Sun, but then I also think that Gravity's Rainbow is better (and more important to Pynchon) than V.
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Added on my list. Thank you!
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I started rereading Book of the New Sun in honor of his passing. The first 80 pages (up until Thecla’s [spoiler]) might be the greatest opening in American literature.
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Regarding Catholicism and SF, I wonder if you've read any Tim Powers, whose urban horror/secret history novels are deeply Catholic and deeply weird.
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