tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post688163269348223082..comments2024-03-27T23:55:17.673-07:00Comments on Flogging Babel: Honoring Gene WolfeMichael Swanwickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18389836784776252022noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-51620403739018066652012-01-24T21:35:02.372-08:002012-01-24T21:35:02.372-08:00We shall be there as well!We shall be there as well!kyle cassidyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11042724421847036836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-17915691933513126652012-01-21T09:51:10.529-08:002012-01-21T09:51:10.529-08:00Terry Carr produced sixteen brilliant Best Science...Terry Carr produced sixteen brilliant Best Science Fiction of the Year anthologies, and in the second installment, he introduced Gene Wolfe’s “The Fifth Head of Cerberus” thusly: “If 1972 produced a classic science-fiction story, I believe the following novella by Gene Wolfe is it.” After forty years, I believe with all respect to Mr. Carr, that is an understatement…it’s one of the finest novellas ever written. <br /><br />Kim Stanley Robinson wrote in his introduction to “The Very Best of Gene Wolfe”, “….this is one of the best story collections ever published, a masterpiece of American literature”. No doubt about that. If I were marooned on an island, and could only take the works of a single writer, it would of course be his oeuvre. And how appropriate that is, considering how sublimely he has written about islands! <br /><br />Dickens, Proust and Shakespeare would have loved him. Someone should re-publish “Letters Home” to show to a wider audience the early Wolfe, the courage and dignity he brings to the page.<br /><br />Without Gene Wolfe, we wouldn’t have Severian or Latro or Tackman Babcock or dozens of other characters that seem more real and present then some actual people who should have been fictions. <br /><br />If the Nobel committee had any sense, Mr. Wolfe would have long since visited Stockholm with Rosemary (and perhaps Ursula K. LeGuin as tour guide!)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-88784086457567425942012-01-20T19:16:39.708-08:002012-01-20T19:16:39.708-08:00That sounds like a great event and some nice compa...That sounds like a great event and some nice company will be on hand. You'll have a great time. I'd love to go to something like that.Chad Hullhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17774092046594256969noreply@blogger.com