From: "Ernest Lilley" <elilley at mindspring.com>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Re: St. Johns...John Wright
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 06:46:34 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Elspeth says: <<Um, explains everything about what?>>

Ah. Literalists.

And: <<I know that to others John's work is erudite, profound, and
profoundly literary.  And in its own way it is, as a long exercise in
allegory.>>

Though I probably failed to get the message across in my review, I
wasn't as caught up in John's erudition, as I was in his main character,
whom I enjoyed.

Moreover: <<For a fun Johnnie read, try Mark Fabi's Wyrm.  Fairly light,
probably now somewhat dated, but with interesting ideas and quite
entertaining.  So's Mark, come to think of it.>>

Agreed. In my '97 review, which appeared in the first issue of SFRevu, I
said:

"Wyrm is a thoroughly well written book with an intelligent premise and
interesting and well constructed characters. It shows that good reading
and techno-fiction need not be strangers. The characters author Mark
Fabi creates provide a storyline that balances a well thought out
whodunit with viruses, artificial intelligence, the internet, and
everything."
SFRevu: June 1997 Vol. 1.0
(http://www.sfrevu.com/ISSUES/1997/9706/#Wyrm)

Cheers,

Ernest Lilley