Science Fiction: the 101 Best Novels 1985-2010
“A large portion of Wolfe’s oeuvre consists of stories whose immediate surface voice is frequently bent, subverted, transmogrified, or mitigated by a secondary voice usually concealed within a net of subtle textual clues. Two or more interpretations of Wolfean events are standard, and part of the fun of reading Wolfe is assigning identities to the voices and deciding which is primary, which secondary (if such relative weights can be assigned at all).
Paradoxically, Wolfe also has an ability and ...a reputation for composing stories that are almost naively straightforward in their transcription of events. Physical happenings and emotional states are rendered by certain of his narrators in crystalline simplicity, rich in sensory detail, and delivering a powerful emotional impact. And sometimes, of course, these two characteristic Wolfes—deceiver and revealer—inhabit the same page.
The Book of the Long Sun at first seems to belong to the straightforward camp. The tale of a generational starship shaped like a standard O’Neill tin can (hence the titular rodlike axial sun) coming to the end of its voyage was stylistically and thematically informed on every page by the Jesus-like character of its protagonist, Patera Silk, a humble, honest, ultimately influential priest of the ship’s AI gods.MoreLess
Paradoxically, Wolfe also has an ability and ...a reputation for composing stories that are almost naively straightforward in their transcription of events. Physical happenings and emotional states are rendered by certain of his narrators in crystalline simplicity, rich in sensory detail, and delivering a powerful emotional impact. And sometimes, of course, these two characteristic Wolfes—deceiver and revealer—inhabit the same page.
The Book of the Long Sun at first seems to belong to the straightforward camp. The tale of a generational starship shaped like a standard O’Neill tin can (hence the titular rodlike axial sun) coming to the end of its voyage was stylistically and thematically informed on every page by the Jesus-like character of its protagonist, Patera Silk, a humble, honest, ultimately influential priest of the ship’s AI gods.MoreLess
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