Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 18:29:33 -0500
From: Ted White <tedwhite at compusnet.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: What I can't read
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Michael Walsh wrote:

> [quoting someone unattributed]
> >On a less livid note, I've tried in vain to read Gene Wolfe; I think I'm
> >missing a critical lit'ry allele. I also can't read anything longer than =
> a
> >short story in present tense; it irritates me.
>
> Keith Roberts did - I think - two  stories in the second person.  Rather =
> present tense . . .

Brad Solomon wrote an entire *novel* (mystery -- not SF) in present-tense -- and
carried it off so well that it took me most of the first chapter to
notice/realize what he'd done.

--Ted White