<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><font size="2">Earlier this week, Michael Swanwick posted the opening paragraphs of his contribution.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font size="2"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font size="2">http://floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2013/02/acolytes-of-wolfe.html</font></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Marc, can there ever be a nonbiased party? I think the best reviewer (critic?) is a
well-informed, independent reader whose point-of-view is transparent, like the contributors to this list. I've particularly enjoyed reading your chronological critiques of Wolfe's short fiction for the very reason that you are an informed reader of Wolfe.</div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Marc Aramini <marcaramini@yahoo.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> The Urth Mailing List <urth@lists.urth.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, March 2, 2013 9:10 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: (urth) Shadows of the New Sun Tribute Anthology<br> </font> </div> <br>
<div id="yiv1035077095"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><div>Thanks, David and Antonin. Two of the most memorable recent anthologies like this were Vance's Songs of the Dying Earth and Bradbury's Shadow Show, both well worth the investment. The issue with the Vance one was homogeneity - they were all Dying Earth stories, and many of them attempted to emulate his style, as well, some more successfully than others. The Bradbury one seemed thematic, and worked amazingly well, in my opinion. </div>
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<div>It was interesting to see who attempted a Wolfean style and who elected to write with less narrative elisions. Savile's story, for example, would have blended perfectly and seamlessly into the Bradbury anthology. </div>
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<div>Can't wait to read a review from a nonbiased party.<br><br>--- On <b>Sat, 3/2/13, David Stockhoff <i><dstockhoff@verizon.net></i></b> wrote:<br></div>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid;PADDING-LEFT:5px;MARGIN-LEFT:5px;"><br>From: David Stockhoff <dstockhoff@verizon.net><br>Subject: Re: (urth) Shadows of the New Sun Tribute Anthology<br>To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth@lists.urth.net><br>Date: Saturday, March 2, 2013, 6:07 AM<br><br>
<div class="yiv1035077095plainMail">Awesome! Congrats on your own story.<br></div></blockquote></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Urth Mailing List<br>To post, write <a ymailto="mailto:urth@urth.net" href="mailto:urth@urth.net">urth@urth.net</a><br>Subscription/information: <a href="http://www.urth.net/" target="_blank">http://www.urth.net</a><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>