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From: Richard HortonSubject: 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? --=20 Rich Horton | Stable Email: mailto://richard.horton@sff.net Home Page: http://www.sff.net/people/richard.horton Also visit SF Site (http://www.sfsite.com) and Tangent Online = (http://www.tangentonline.com) --