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<p>For what it's worth, An Evil Guest is one of my favorite of his
books. For a few years maybe it was my favorite. I've got a whole
disquisition about it, which inevitably prompts vigorous
eye-rolling, so I'll spare you. ;-) Looking forward to vol. 2.
Eric<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/7/2018 11:14 AM, Marc Aramini
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<div dir="ltr">I think my editor will have time to get volume 2
ready to go in May, but I am not sure. I haven't pressed because
my pace on these last six essays has been glacial. You would
think I would have the energy to just finish it .. but geez
there's always something. I predict the weakest essay will be on
An Evil Guest. I have adopted a more pedantic approach to these
final longer essays. Sometimes pedantry is a gift. </div>
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Vos <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:foxyab@casema.nl"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">foxyab@casema.nl</a>></span>
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<p>Thanks anyway. It has been some time I read the books
and much of them alas went over my head.</p>
<p>When are your books coming out?<br>
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7-3-2018 om 00:41 schreef Marc Aramini:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I don't want to start a round of
Short Sun stuff (please, please, please) but here
is my take on what he may or may not be talking
about: some time after Horn falls into the pit on
Blue, a Vanished Person who also calls himself
Horn appears to speak to our narrator. That's the
only new speciation that might have anything to do
with Horn - the rest Roberts refers to are the
false clues Wolfe is giving us that Silkhorn might
be inhumi: (light, doesn't have a good appetite -
is he truly a normal man with his ability to walk
through the woods without being touched? (yes, he
has made a deal with the vanished gods, who are
trees)
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<div>Having said that, Horn dies on Green, goes
into Silk's body who has just faced Hyacinth's
death on the whorl and has either
psychologically retreated or mostly succeeded in
killing himself, is a true amalgam of Horn and
Silk as he writes On Blue's Waters in as the
Rajan of Gaon. When he sits under the tree at
the end of On Blue's Waters the majority of
Horn's spirit goes into Babbie and becomes the
beast with three horns, then it is Silk in
denial for the rest of the book, Silk a man as
he always was, until finally he is faced with
the truth with the passage invoking the death of
Hyacinth in the writings and has come home to a
house that is not his. </div>
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<div>But hey anyone can believe what they want - I
have zero interest in arguing this one at all.
Just trying to address what he might be talking
about.</div>
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2:46 PM, Ab de Vos <span dir="ltr"><<a
href="mailto:foxyab@casema.nl"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">foxyab@casema.nl</a>></span>
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0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc
solid;padding-left:1ex">Adam Roberts is a
literature professor as well as a science
fiction writer.<br>
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In his "The History of Science Fiction" he
devotes a short chapter to Wolfe which he
concludes by relating Wolfe to his (Roberts)
main thesis throughout the book: "Wolfe not
only revisits many of the conventions of
20th-century SF, he goes further back than
that, tapping into the deep roots of the
genre, interrogating the many ways in which
notions of salvation are inflected by our much
broader materialist understanding of the
cosmos."(page 439)<br>
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After treating preliminaries his history
starts in chapter 4: "Seventeenth century SF".
Central is the dialectic between matter,
spirit and technology. Very interesting. His
chapter on Wolfe contains, I believe, some
errors. He says for instance:"Horn may or may
not, mutate into a new form of life across
the course of the trilogy. "(page 438) Anybody
ring a bell. I thought Silk was Horn but
didn't want to give him up because then he
Horn would be dead as they were sharing the
same body.<br>
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