Stuart,<br><br>I started off with Shadow & Claw myself; I was hooked by the end of the first chapter. I haven't read Strange Travelers, but I'm not sure if The Island of Doctor Death is the best place to start; lots of the science stuff hasn't aged as well as one might hope, and some of the stories, like "The Eyeflash Miracles," are so obscure and difficult to read that I wonder if they might turn off readers. That said, it seems to me that "Seven American Nights" from that collection might make a very good intro to Wolfe; it seems to me a very representative Wolfe story, what with the decaying world and the monumentally unreliable narrator.
<br><br>I suppose that The Wizard Knight is another possible starting point; my one caveat is that lots of readers either a) hate Able or b) think that The Wizard drags a lot, so that might not be the best place to begin.
<br><br>Best of luck convincing your friends.<br><br>-Matt<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/14/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Stuart Hamm</b> <<a href="mailto:hammstu@sbcglobal.net">hammstu@sbcglobal.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;"><div>Hey Evryone,I have a question for you all...</div> <div>I have a couple of good friends I want to turn on to GW, what is a good strting point? Don't want to scare them off to soon...
</div> <div>I'm thinking "Strang Travelers" or "The ISland..." ,or should I just give them Shadow and Claw and be done with it???</div> <div> </div> <div>Stuart<br><br><b><i>Tim Walters <<a href="mailto:walters@doubtfulpalace.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
walters@doubtfulpalace.com</a>></i></b> wrote:</div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px;">> Buck's dreams in CotW are easily explained. Jack London was a believer
<br>> in racial memory (and a lot of other tosh as well). He wrote a whole<br>> novel in which the protagonist (an imprisoned radical) escapes into<br>> dreams/visions/astral projections of the past, including a session in
<br>> prehistoric times, which corresponds nicely to Buck's dream. It was<br>> called "Star Rover."<br><br>_Before Adam_ uses the same
trope, IIRC.<br><br>-- <br>Tim Walters | <a href="http://doubtfulpalace.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://doubtfulpalace.com</a><br><br><br>_______________________________________________
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