<div dir="ltr">A shame. Thanks, Gene Wolfe, for many, many hours of pleasure.<div><br></div><div>A little thing I wrote somewhere else:</div><div><br></div><div><i><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:17px">One of my favourite authors. A conservative mid-Western Catholic, in truth a reactionary, but ignore the politics: he could write like a big fat walrus-moustached reactionary angel. </span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:17px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:17px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:17px">He was an SF & Fantasy writer, because he liked the genres and he liked playing around and subverting them, and also (at a guess) because an SF&F cover on a novel ensures some extra sales. </span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:17px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:17px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:17px">But his best novel, Peace, </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008S0E5ZA/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i11" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow" style="color:rgb(12,57,129);text-decoration-line:none;border-radius:5px;padding:0px 3px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:17px">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008S0E5ZA</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:17px"> was genre-defying, maybe Mid-Western magic realism, or literary David Lynchism, or something. Mysterious, elegiac, infinitely complex under a simple skin, beautifully written. Partly it has to do with memory and its distortion. Everybody is falsifying memories and histories, long and short, except the narrator, who is dead. Rather than lie, he omits, and the narrative has great gaps, their missing contents hinted at by a profusion of stories which shed uncertain light on each other and on the record. Extraordinarily deft.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:17px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:17px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:17px">Anyway, he will be missed.</span> </i><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 at 09:48, Gerry Quinn <<a href="mailto:gerry@bindweed.com">gerry@bindweed.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Very sorry to hear it. Though having not heard anything in the
past year since he entered a care facility, I cannot say it came
entirely as a shock.</p>
<p>By chance I was shopping for Wolfe books at Amazon this morning
when I heard the bad news. Picked up a collection I did not have,
although I have read most of the stories in it. (I received a
gift card as a birthday present, my usual habit is to browse
second-hand bookshops and see what fate brings me.) Reading some
of them now. Had not read Forleson, one of my favourites, in a
very long time.<br>
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<div class="gmail-m_8002601470496976750moz-cite-prefix">On 16/04/2019 00:52, Ab de Vos wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail-m_8002601470496976750moz-cite-prefix">Op 16-4-2019 om 01:33 schreef Jane
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family.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Tor is reporting that Gene Wolfe has
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<div>Husband, Father, Good Cook. Reader. Keeper of
abandoned dogs. Does not fit into a neat box or
category. "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat,
square book. Always, scribble, scribble,
scribble, eh?" (The Duke of Gloucester, on being
presented with Volume 2 of The Decline and Fall
of the Roman Empire.) Blogging at Bernal Alpha.
On Twitter as @FredKiesche<br>
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