<div dir="ltr">I just finished "Empire Star" by Samuel R. Delany. It was kinda Wolfean style story, unreliable narrator, needs re-reading and has a woman character that feels like taken out from Wolfe book also her name is San Severina, but that's just a coincidence (or not?) :). Maybe this is a long shot, so anyone had similar feeling? This is a short book, but definitely fun, I was looking for some classic SF light reading and got a light mind bender ;).<div>
<br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-03-12 14:26 GMT+01:00 Antonin Scriabin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kierkegaurdian@gmail.com" target="_blank">kierkegaurdian@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hello, Urthlings. What are you reading these days? I haven't been reading much Wolfe lately, so nothing is fresh enough in my mind to participate in some of the other ongoing discussions.<br>
<br></div>I am working my way through the Harvard Classics. I just finished the fourth volume, the complete poems in English by John Milton. <i>Paradise Lost </i>was a treat, as was Franklin's autobiography in the first volume and the <i>New Atlantis </i>by Bacon in the third, which is an old favorite of mine from my philosophy major days.<br>
<br></div>I've also recently read <i>The Sea, the Sea </i>by Iris Murdoch, which was excellent, and <i>The City of Dreaming Books </i>by Moers, which was great, silly fun<i>.</i> I also read the first 50 pages of <i>Lookout Cartridge</i> by McElroy and decided to put it back on the shelf for the time being. It wasn't particularly <i>bad, </i>it was just entirely unsuccessful in grabbing my attention within a reasonable amount of time, together with being written in a very disjointed, unique style. I will probably get back to it in the near future.<br>
<br></div>Anyway, I am getting back on a Wolfe kick today by finishing the latter half of <i>The Island of Doctor Death, and Other Stories, and Other Stories</i>. Looking forward to it!<br></div>
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