Herter's first novel, "Ceres Storm," came out in 2000. Dense, compelling, definitely Wolfean in approach, as noted. Link to Amazon listing for the book: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312874936/sr=8-3/qid=1150393596/ref=sr_1_3/104-4115854-4295931?%5Fencoding=UTF8">
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312874936/sr=8-3/qid=1150393596/ref=sr_1_3/104-4115854-4295931?%5Fencoding=UTF8</a><br><br>Interestingly, Herter's next book (2002) was a fantasy, "Evening's Empire." Haven't read it yet, but I'm not surprised to see the
<a href="http://Amazon.com">Amazon.com</a> review page name-checking Gene Wolfe on the book.<br>See <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312870345/sr=8-2/qid=1150393596/ref=sr_1_2/104-4115854-4295931?%5Fencoding=UTF8">
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312870345/sr=8-2/qid=1150393596/ref=sr_1_2/104-4115854-4295931?%5Fencoding=UTF8</a><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/15/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rob Thornton</b> <
<a href="mailto:oblate777@speakeasy.net">oblate777@speakeasy.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br><br>
> And to try to keep things on-topic for the group at large, I'm surprised I<br>> haven't heard mention of either David Herter or Alexander Jablokov, both of<br>> whom strike me as being quite favorably Wolfean in their style, erudition,
<br>> and recurrent bouts of playfully deliberate obscurity....<br>><br><br>Did someone say Alexander Jablokov? I strongly recommend his first novel "Carve the Sky" and now that Wolfe is invoked, I can see some connections. For example, "Sky" has a very involving worldscape and Jablokov takes some relish in tossing you in medias res and continously stirring in information rather than habitually using SFnal "infodumps."
<br><br>Unfortunately, none of his later efforts really matched "Carve the Sky" but I strongly recommend "Sky"<br><br>Now who is this Herter fellow? Actually, I haven't heard of him....<br><br>back to the lurk,
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