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Anonymous Thu Mar 11 12:53:53 2010 No.413282 [Reply] [Original]

Is Gene Wolfe the best living American writer?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 12:55:53 2010 No.413290 File: 14 KB, 216x245, monopoly-man.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Is Gene Wolfe the living Monopoly Man?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 12:58:53 2010 No.413299 File: 159 KB, 432x600, pringles.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Is Gene Wolfe the living Pringles Man?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 13:01:53 2010 No.413310 File: 136 KB, 474x355, gene_wolfe_ogre.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 13:04:53 2010 No.413322 >>413299 You know, he did participate in the development of the machine that makes Pringles. Curious.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 13:07:53 2010 No.413337 pynchon ain't dead yo

Anonymous Thu Mar 11 13:10:53 2010 No.413346
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It is ironic that 20 years ago you couldn't GIVE Gene Wolfe's books away.

Science fiction readers HATED him. Even with those incredible Don Maitz covers.

Oh well, it's a long road without a turning.

Pic related - more Don Maitz.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 13:10:53 2010 No.413348 >>413337 ain't written anything that makes sense either

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 13:11:53 2010 No.413354 >>413346 in 1990?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 13:16:53 2010 No.413375 File: 36 KB, 327x500, The Wizard Knight.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >If you don't read this book, you'll have missed out on something important and wonderful and all the cool people will laugh at you. >Neil Gaiman

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 13:20:53 2010 No.413387 >>413354 And earlier - "Shadow.." got great reviews and sold like shit. Books like that killed the Timescape imprint. You kids are so much more progressive these days.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 13:32:53 2010 No.413415 >>413387 George R. R. Martin, too.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 13:33:53 2010 No.413419 I will shortly begin Free Live Free

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 13:37:53 2010 No.413433 File: 84 KB, 432x648, 9780765302946.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Best thing he's written.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 13:42:53 2010 No.413447 File: 45 KB, 385x485, Rorschach.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>413310 >Gene Wolfe - Possible Frost Giant. Must investigate further.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 13:43:53 2010 No.413455 >>413433 Still need to read Latro.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 13:46:53 2010 No.413462 >>413433 thats good, the endings will make you rage however

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 13:56:53 2010 No.413483 >>413433 is Latro the Roman god Mars?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 13:57:53 2010 No.413487 When did Gore Vidal die?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 13:58:53 2010 No.413492 >>413487 aidslol

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 13:59:53 2010 No.413498 >>413487 He's still alive.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 14:02:53 2010 No.413505 Why are science fiction writers of Wolfe's age group such ostentatiously flamboyant assholes? HURR DURR lookit at my moustache.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 14:06:53 2010 No.413522 >>413487 Best introductory book to read of Vidal's in the year 2010. Suggestion please.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 14:08:53 2010 No.413534 File: 101 KB, 300x400, Asimov-thumb.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>413505 >implying Asimov doesn't have sweet chops.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 14:08:53 2010 No.413536 >>413522 Messiah.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 14:09:53 2010 No.413541 >>413505 it's because they're morons, as proven by the fact that they're science fiction authors.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 14:09:53 2010 No.413540 No, Thomas Pynchon's not dead yet.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 14:11:53 2010 No.413548 File: 1.56 MB, 1288x2332, Jerry_Pournelle_crop.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>413534 Check out my cool bolo tie.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 14:12:53 2010 No.413550 >>413536 >No specific Wikipedia article on Messiah. Are you sure? I'll believe you if you promise you aren't trolling; sometimes the best gets buried under the praise of another work, I've seen it happen. But it doesn't happen often.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 14:12:53 2010 No.413552 >>413505 New Wave

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 14:13:53 2010 No.413553 File: 20 KB, 300x346, slip.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Not for long >:3

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 14:13:53 2010 No.413556 File: 9 KB, 298x379, MAX.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>413541

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 14:13:53 2010 No.413557 File: 87 KB, 344x344, 12020648-12020654-slarge.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>413553 Oh that's rich.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 14:14:53 2010 No.413563 >>413534 Larry Niven, old school neckbeard

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 14:17:53 2010 No.413575 >>413553 >gets sex change, blows off face, punches himself in face a few times, gets rabies, gives rabies to Gene Wolfe via butt raep

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 14:17:53 2010 No.413576 >>413550 Lazyfag is lazy. http://www.amazon.com/Messiah-Penguin-Twentieth-Century-Classics-20th-Century/dp/0141180390

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 14:21:53 2010 No.413583 >>413576 I don't appreciate being called lazy; but this did get me to read the premise on there. Looks good, thanks for the rec.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 14:34:53 2010 No.413640 >>413483 Nah, he's just a Roman farmer's son in my opinion

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 14:37:53 2010 No.413657 >>413640 This IS Wolfe; both are possible, after all. But he's certainly Italian. I should re-read them; I wasn't too impressed to be honest; maybe I should read some classics to get in the mood first.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 16:22:53 2010 No.414019 >>413657 its never disputed that he is Roman. Also, was he sleeping with Io?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 16:24:53 2010 No.414026 >>414019 No. She seemed like she wanted to get between the sheets though. I raged like the winds when he dumped Io at the end of Arete. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 16:25:53 2010 No.414028 >>414019 > Is Gene Wolfe the best living American writer? thats in the original post.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 16:30:53 2010 No.414052 File: 72 KB, 288x362, Ayn Rand (1).gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] <-- Best American writer

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 17:59:53 2010 No.414396 >>414028 you fucking moron, we're talking about the character Latro in the Soldier series.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 18:02:53 2010 No.414410 I'm reading The Fifth Head of Cerberus for English 215. He's really a dense writer. I may have to re-read this to catch everything.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 18:05:53 2010 No.414425 >>414410 the kid is a clone the anthropologist is a shape-shifting aboriginal from the sister planet, it killed the real scientist and assumed his form

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 18:05:53 2010 No.414428 >>414410 Wolfe is assigned reading somewhere?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 18:07:53 2010 No.414433 >>413419 30 pages in, so far: wtf

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 18:09:53 2010 No.414441 >>414428 My god, I wish we had to do Wolfe at my college.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 19:04:53 2010 No.414674 >>414441 I remember one year in highschool I had a teacher forever deriding me for reading and writing about science fiction, then we were given some text for critical analysis for the end of year test and it was some Ray Bradbury short stories

Anonymous Thu Mar 11 19:29:53 2010 No.414765

>>414410
I fucking love Fifth Head of Cerberus, it's probably my favorite Wolfe

It's awesome on its own merits, but it's also a really important example of someone addressing important, real themes (identity, memory) in a mature and nuanced way, using things that are only possible in a science fiction setting

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