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From: "Kevin J. Maroney" <kmaroney@crossover.com>
Subject: Re:  (urth) Call 4 a FAQulty
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 11:19:29 

At 10:24 PM 1/25/99 EST, Christopher wrote:
>After all, this is the one single book we're here for, anyway, with _Peace_,
>etc. being a sort of frill. Besides, I don't think there are any *frequently
>asked* questions on any of the minor Wolfe novels, whereas we've treaded over
>certain points of the BotNS repeatedly.

Here are a few Wolfe FAQs which have nothing to do with BotNS and one which
does but isn't *about* BotNS: 

"What's up with Dennis Weer?"
"Which egg contained the hallucinogen?"
"What became of John V. Marsh? And what does VRT stand for?"
"How is the _Long Sun_ related to the _New Sun_?"
"What is a memory palace?"
"Where should I start reading Wolfe?"
"What Wolfe short story collections are there?" 
"What is Cheap Street? What other small-press Wolfe am I missing?"
"Did Gene Wolfe really invent Pringles?"

I agree that the most Frequently Asked Questions are about _BotNS_, because
it's the largest, densest(*), and most-read of Wolfe' works. But it's
hardly the only work about which the same questions come up again and again. 

(*)Actually, I think that _Peace_ might be denser. 

Wombat, a.k.a. Kevin Maroney kmaroney@crossover.com
Kitchen Staff Supervisor, New York Review of Science Fiction
http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/olp/nyrsf/nyrsf.html

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