(urth) Gene Wolfe is for Socialists

[David Stockhoff]

I've read one Mieville and I don't quite get the hype either.

Anyway, I was thinking that it's funny that to most Americans, "very 
rundown and poor and disgusting" IS socialism. At least if it describes 
a White neighborhood.



On 12/19/2010 10:15 PM, Lane Haygood wrote:
> Mieville and I probably agree on quite a bit politically, but I have 
> only found a few of his stories palatable.  Then again, while I can 
> respect his talent and prose, I just find a lot of the New Weird "Oh 
> look I have a funny world with odd things and it's all very rundown 
> and poor and disgusting but we will revel in the degradation because 
> it's soooo much of a biting social critique" writers to be less than 
> enthralling.
>
> That said, all I took was that the list explored themes important to 
> socialists, not necessarily that these were books that advocated for 
> any sort of socialist position.
>
> LH
>


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