(urth) Neal Gaiman and 5HC

[Dave Lebling]

This thread makes me wish I had published that (somewhere?) back when I 
first figured it out, which was the first time I read 5HC in Damon 
Knight's Orbit 10, in 1972 or '73. Too bad there was barely even an 
Arpanet then, much less the Urth list. I think SF-Lovers was later, but 
I'm not sure.

The name of the narrator was pretty obvious from the library scene 
alone; the narrator looking for his father's books near works by "Winge" 
(Vernor Vinge), "some German" (Kate Wilhelm), Virginia Woolf, and 
Bertram Wolfe. Not terribly subtle. Figuring out the other two segments 
was much harder; that took many rereadings many years later. I was 
completely bewildered by them.

-- Dave Lebling, aka vizcacha

James Wynn wrote:
>> Some times it's madder than others: he was on the nose with all the clues
>> that the 5HC narrator was "Gene Wolfe", but also nominated the alzabo as a
>> sort of gene-seeking wolf.
>>     
>
> I thought it was Robert Borski who nailed this one first.
>
> J.
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