(urth) If I already like ...

[David Stockhoff]

On 4/25/2012 11:37 PM, David Duffy wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2012, David Stockhoff wrote:
>
>> Antonio
>>
>> I've just finished House on the Borderlands. I can't help but be 
>> reminded of Master Ash in his ice-doomed time-tower.
>>
>> Otherwise, I see no resemblances to anything Wolfe has done except 
>> perhaps for the gothic (and hoary) touch of the "recovered manuscript."
>
> Yes, when I first read it I was blown away, but rereading it after 
> rereading _The Time Machine_ (specifically the later chapter) showed 
> me where many of the most striking ideas came from.
>
> Re Wolfe and Hodgson, have you compared _Pirate Freedom_ to _The Ghost 
> Pirates_? ;) [_Boats of the Glen Carrig_ is good fun too]
>
> http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10966
>
> Cheers, David Duffy.

Well, I guess I have no choice now but to read those too!