(urth) Excerpt from "The Land Across"

Gwern Branwen gwern at gwern.net
Tue Oct 22 07:34:20 PDT 2013


Curious. Comes off as a mish-mash of a Cold war anti-Communist
potboiler and the Dracula myth (Transylvania, national paranoid fear
of 'the Turks') with some jarring contemporary features like mention
of an iPhone (an iPhone? in a Gene Wolfe novel? I never thought I'd
see the day) - jarring because the tone of the narration is so Wolfe
and no young or even middle-aged American talks/thinks/writes like the
narrator does. I also don't know what to make of the Kleon/Cleon
naming.

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