<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I have it on my "to read" list. I'll report in when I'm finished.<div><br></div><div>But... I don't think it's going to be Wolfean, at least not from the description I read.</div><div><br></div><div>-L.</div><div><br><div><div>On Feb 12, 2009, at 9:50 PM, Joe Smulkstis wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div bgcolor="#ffffff"><div><font face="Arial" size="2">D. Douglas Fratz, reviewing Richard Morgan's "The Steel Remains", said:</font></div><div> </div><div>But for me the best example of this subgenre can be found in the work of Gene Wolfe, beginning with his<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Book of the New Sun</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>novels, fantasy novels set in a remote but very imaginable future that have the gritty realism of the best science fiction.</div><div><p>Richard K. Morgan is clearly mining Wolfe territory, and that is fine territory indeed.</p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Has anyone here read the book and, if so, is the reviewer's comparison with Wolfe accurate?</font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">The Kovac's novels didn't strike me as at all Wolfean.</font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Muskrat</font></p></div>_______________________________________________<br>Urth Mailing List<br>To post, write<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:urth@urth.net">urth@urth.net</a><br>Subscription/information:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.urth.net">http://www.urth.net</a></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>