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Marc Aramini:<BR>
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>He also likens it to sea turtles whose nesting grounds have been irradiated in nuclear testing ? they forget to return to the sea and just go inland until they die,<BR>
>only their shells remaining for birds to nest in.<BR><BR>
This seems amazingly like Wolfe channelling J.G. Ballard, an author with whom on the surface he has rather little in common. Or is it just me?<BR>
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E.g. see Zachary Kendal's Silk for Calde blog article <A href="http://silk4calde.blogspot.co.uk/2010/09/gene-wolfe-new-wave-author.html">http://silk4calde.blogspot.co.uk/2010/09/gene-wolfe-new-wave-author.html</A>, where Wolfe is quoted<BR>
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"If I was a part of [The New Wave], I was only a very remote, peripheral person. I suppose the epicenter of the New Wave was J. G. Ballard, although you might dispute that, and certainly I was at a great distance from J. G. Ballard".<BR>
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On the other hand, it was noted here recently that Wolfe has written frequently about dystopian modernism, which is very much a Ballard theme, albeit approaced from a rather different perspective :-).<BR>
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Hmmm. I can't recall any empty swimming pools in Wolfe, though. Although come to think of it, one wouldn't be completely out of place in Free Live Free. Or even in Peace.<BR>
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newt<BR>
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