(urth) The Politics Of Gene Wolfe

[brunians at brunians.org]

He has always been like this.

He's not much like Heinlein in a lot of things.

But the very basics, yes.


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>> I've read through most of _Starwater Strains_ now, and my initial
>> belief has hardened: Gene's writings are definitely getting more
>> political. In his older works like _Peace_ or _Book of the New Sun_
>> (pre-90s), I didn't notice anything political, or at least,
>> contemporary. But in stuff from the last 2 decades? My suspicion has
>> become certainty.
>>
>> The stories in SS though are absolutely littered with
>> libertarian/conservative plots or asides. Some stories do nothing but
>> push such ideas. "Viewpoint", for example, has a dystopian government
>> which claims to own all money and which suppresses all weaponry, the
>> better to oppress its citizenry; the protagonist, who is a heroic
>> moral wilderness survivalist fellow, spends most of the story trying
>> to get a weapon. His great victory is to murder a government agent.
>>
>> --
>> gwern
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> Would you say that Wolfe has grown to be more like Heinlein and less like
> Azimov?
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> Best wishes,
> Jack
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