(urth) Wolfe response to questionnaire NYRSF 268

[Matthew Keeley]

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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