(urth) Wolfe response to questionnaire NYRSF 268

[Son of Witz]

Thanks for the article.
"But people seem to look at mine and expect to find hidden fingerprints under the lily pad or something. I've heard some really nutty theories about my stories — I won't name names, but there's some real screwball stuff going on out there."

Hehehe.
~witz


On Jan 18, 2011, at 4:31 PM, Matthew Keeley <matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not directly related, but io9 ran an interview with Wolfe today:
> 
> http://io9.com/5736063/gene-wolfe-talks-dystopian-futures-and-the-chances-of-star+drive-in-our-lifetime
> 
> -Matt
> 
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 7:05 PM, David Duffy <davidD at qimr.edu.au> wrote:
> Wolfe gave a brief response to a questionnaire sent out to writers by Barbara Bengels ("The Care and Feeding of Science Fiction Writers"):
> 
> A formative moment in which you decided to become a writer?  "There was none..."  Roommate asked GW to contribute stories to the student magazine
> so he could illustrate them.
> 
> And specifically SF? "I have never considered myself an sf writer, just a writer who writes some sf."
> 
> and on encouraging the young
> 
> "There was a little kid over on Banks Street who borrowed my sf magazines after I had read them.  His name was John Cramer, and he bacame a nuclear physicist [and SF writer]".  Not a story I had heard before.
> 
> Cheers, David Duffy,
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