(urth) Gummed-Up Works or Got Lives?

[António Pedro Marques]

Gerry Quinn wrote (15-12-2011 14:34):
> However, that is by-the-by.  While genre categorisation arguments can get a
> bit silly, especially with a genre-mixing author like Wolfe, I would argue
> that BotNS is not really part of the ‘swords and sorcery’ genre, even though
> it does indeed contain swords* and sorcery, and indeed certain episodes
> (e.g. the mine with the man-apes) that would fit comfortably into the
> genre.  It’s not _about_ the swords and sorcery.

Again curiously, the scene with the man-apes felt more like early sf or lost 
race fiction to me.