(urth) Parallels

[Idoru X]

On 10/21/06, Fred Kiesche <godel2escher2bach at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Greetings:
>
> In re-reading the tetralogy after (mumble mumble)
> years, I was struck by something I did not notice when
> I first read them: The parallels with "The Dying
> Earth" by Jack Vance and the "Viriconium" tales fo M.
> John Harrison.



Wolfe has talked plenty of times about how excited he felt by The Dying
Earth. The Tetralogy started as his attempt to write his own version of a
Dying Earth.
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