<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/21/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Fred Kiesche</b> <<a href="mailto:godel2escher2bach@yahoo.com">godel2escher2bach@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Greetings:<br><br>In re-reading the tetralogy after (mumble mumble)<br>years, I was struck by something I did not notice when
<br>I first read them: The parallels with "The Dying<br>Earth" by Jack Vance and the "Viriconium" tales fo M.<br>John Harrison.</blockquote>
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<div>Wolfe has talked plenty of times about how excited he felt by The Dying Earth. The Tetralogy started as his attempt to write his own version of a Dying Earth.<br> </div></div>