Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 09:57:27 -0500
From: thomasbitterman@netscape.net (Thomas Bitterman)
Subject: RE: (urth) Recommended authors

jismulkstis@att.net wrote:

>While stylistically unlike Gene Wolfe, Iain M. Banks
[...]

He's not just stylistically unlike Wolfe, their worldviews
are diametrically opposed.  Banks and Wolfe probably shouldn't
shake hands, lest some sort of literary explosion take place.

>I'd like to know what others think of Banks, but this 
>may not be the appropriate forum. 

Obligatory Wolfe note:  I'm convinced that Banks is making an
allusion to Wolfe in _Excession_.  (My copy is at home, so I'll
just draw an outline.)  The ship's interior is hemispherical,
and there is a bright line that rotates around to make day and
night.  Banks describes it as a giant jump rope, with the ship
at play forever.  It's such a brilliant twist to the Long Sun
it's hard to believe Banks didn't have it in mind.

>Muskrat


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