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[John Watkins]

I think Short Sun (which I'm rereading now) is as good as anything Wolfe
ever wrote.
I can't say the same about Pirate Freedom or Soldier of Sidon.

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Transentient <transentient at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Did you really mean to include Short Sun in the list of books / series that
> are not the same? And not Knight / Wizard?
>
> What strikes me about the later books is that the narrative itself feels
> more coherent and the books are smoother from start to finish. I think you
> can see this with Solider of Sidon which has a dramatically different feel
> that the previous two books. It is like the machinery for producing the
> story went from analogue to digital. Short Sun is kind of a transitionary
> series.
>
> On Apr 14, 2009, at 1:18 AM, Jonathan Goodwin wrote:
>
>
>> How many of you agree that the Wolfe of Fifth Head, Peace, New Sun,
>> Endangered Species (partially), and Death of Dr. Island and OS and OS
>> is not even recognizably the same author as that of Pirate Freedom, An
>> Evil Guest, or the Short Sun? (Shared concerns, yes. The quality of
>> execution, however, is more like that of a bad imitator.)
>>
>>>
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