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For those of you, like myself, who missed out on Robert Borski's Solar Labyrinth, he has a new book out:
The Long and the Short of It : More Essays on the Fiction of Gene Wolfe
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I've scanned the pages at the bookstore and have heard good things about Solar Labyrinth and will eventually read it. Many people don't take sci-fi fantasy writers seriously, so it was a pleasant surprise to see Borski's book. It's pretty cool to see literary criticisms on any writer in this genre.
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www.amazon.com/gp/product/0853238286/re ... e&n=283155

Speaking of literary critiques, has anyone read Peter Wright's "Attending Daedalus: Gene Wolfe, Artifice and the Reader" I flipped through this one at a bookstore a couple of years ago and haven't seen it since. I found neither of the reviews on Amazon helpful (imagine that ;) )

Is anyone else out there familiar with the book; is it worth reading?




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