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Subject: Re: shadow of the torturer and thomas co - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 29-Jun-83 16:17:22 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 29 16:17:22 1983
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Donaldson I can't read, Wolfe I can.  Donaldson uses language to
obscure and deflate everything--Wolfe seems to somehow make everything
more complex and resonant, ecstatically precise.  I admit that I
couldn't really identify with Severian very much, but I was carried
along by other things.

Anything I read by Poul Anderson seems to be a pastiche of greatness,
but never quite achieves greatness.  Please send me examples of his
"great" stuff.  I probably missed it while I was plowing through
one or another of his titles picked out at random.  He has a lot of them!

Richard