From: Richard Horton 
Subject: Re: (urth) New Wolfe stories: comments
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 20:43:10 -0600

On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 10:04:17 +0000 (GMT), you wrote:

>
>"Castaway" may particularly interest those preoccupied
>with Wolfe's vision of Mother Goddesses (Ocean, or, in
>this case, Earth.) Again, a tale is told to an
>anonymous narrator, this time by a shipwreck victim
>marooned for decades on a desolate world. Poignant,
>and unusually direct for GW.

I thought "Castaway" quite good. One of his better recent stories. It
reminded me of Tiptree's "Last Flight of Dr. Ain".

so,=20

SPOILER















Do you think the world was actually Earth?  Or was the castaway
remembering lost Earth somehow?


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