(urth) I'm cheating

Matthew Knight jacobeiserman at gmail.com
Thu Mar 8 10:22:30 PST 2012


Not Wolfe, but a perfect complement would be "Snow" by John Crowley.  I
found it in "20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction" (Dozois).



On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Antonin Scriabin
<kierkegaurdian at gmail.com>wrote:

> If I remember correctly, "A Recording" is also in *The Very Best of Gene
> Wolfe*, which will probably be easier to find.
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Matthew Keeley <matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> How about "A Recording" from Storeys from the Old Hotel?
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> "Susan Delage."
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Craig Brewer <cnbrewer at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> > I'm using the list to cheat.
>>> >
>>> > A friend of mine is an editor for a small online journal. He needs some
>>> > content asap on an issue about "memory" because it turns out that he
>>> can't
>>> > use some of the submissions he had lined up. The theme of the issue is
>>> > "memory" and "public memory" (broadly defined), so I thought I'd try to
>>> > write a quick piece on _Peace_ (heh) over the weekend. He needs it by
>>> > Monday.
>>> >
>>> > The cheating part: many of you know Wolfe's short stories much better
>>> than I
>>> > do, so I'd like to pick your brains about which stories might deal with
>>> > memory in ways similar to _Peace_. For me, that means where memory is
>>> > fraught with disturbance, pain, incompleteness, regret, etc. (You can
>>> see
>>> > the tack I'm taking toward _Peace_.) Any help would be greatly
>>> appreciated
>>> > as I'd like to scatter in some references to the shorter works rather
>>> than
>>> > bringing in Severian/Horn/Latro/Able's much more tangled relations to
>>> > memory...I just don't have the time or the space for that.
>>> >
>>> > And, of course, any and all credit will be given once the thing comes
>>> > out...if I can actually crank out something decent in three days.
>>> >
>>> > Craig
>>> >
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