Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!hpda!fortune!amd70!packet!cfv From: cfv@packet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Re:The shadow of the Torturer Message-ID: <169@packet.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Jun-83 13:25:36 EDT Article-I.D.: packet.169 Posted: Wed Jun 8 13:25:36 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jun-83 20:09:04 EDT Lines: 11 I wouldn't exactly call Wolfe a 'new' talent. I was reading him in high school a long time ago... He has just never made (or wanted) the spotlight before New Sun came out. Calling his work 'SF' or 'Fantasy' is invalid. He has written a major work of literature that happens to use some of the settings of the genres. It is in my mind the most important piece of literature I have seen published since Tolkien, and I think that it is better than Tolkien (heresy?) chuck ucbvax!amd70!packet!cfv