Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 18:43:20 -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:

> >
> >
> >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
>
> Entire novel?  Now that's impressive.

Yup.  One of only three novels the man ever published -- and all of them are
excellent.

But I'm getting weirded out by something, Mike:  Your responses to the other
posts to this list (including mine) *precede* the posts to which you're
replying.  Is the clock setting on your computer a bit ahead?

--Ted White