John Watkins wrote:<br>
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<pre>I am wondering, however, what place An Evil Guest has in Wolfe's body<br>of work. I think it's fair to consider Pirate Freedom and The Wizard<br>Knight as paired novels in a sense--boys' adventure stories featuring<br>
protagonists from what is basically our world heading into a world of<br>genre, both of whom are heavily shaped by the moral choices they make<br>(in contrasting manners.) Both stories also has sort of parallel<br>pieces in Wolfe's short fiction--Golden City Far and A Cabin on the<br>
Coast.<br><br>An Evil Guest is different. I probably need to read Memorare stat to<br>understand exactly what relationship it has with Wolfe's other works</pre>
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I found the interview I mentioned here:
<a href="http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?id=40135">http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?id=40135</a> <br>It sheds some
light on how Wolfe sees the freedom connections in the following two quotes.<br>
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"March's hopper
[spacecraft] is a 21st-century version of Chris' pirate ship in <i>Pirate Freedom."<br>
<br>
</i>"Cassie Casey becomes a queen and discovers that she can no longer buy
anything," he said. "Each dress, each pair of shoes she wants, is given
to her. William Reis can make gold and become invisible; one of his
employees is a werewolf who will gladly kill (and eat) anyone Reis
wants killed (and eaten). Gideon Chase is, well, Gideon Chase. A
wizard, almost human, and so slick he can slide up a flagpole. Laws and
societal restraints mean little to him. He loses a leg, but in a way he
is freest of all." <br>