(urth) Father Inire and SF loathing

don doggett kingwukong at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 13 12:21:02 PDT 2006



--- Daniel D Jones <ddjones at riddlemaster.org> wrote:

> I don't think the charge is that his _style_ is
> pretentious, but that his work 
> itself is.  

I think that's a frivolous charge at best, and a lazy
one. I assume those who say this think that Wolfe's
work tries to rise "above its station" as SF?
Pretending to significance in a genre that's by it's
nature trite? Or am I way off the mark?

regards
Don

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