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Sightings: Reviews 2002-2006
450 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2011
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Gary K. Wolfe
34 books44 followersGary K. Wolfe is Emeritus Professor of Humanities at Roosevelt University and the author, most recently, of Evaporating Genres: Essays on Fantastic Literature and Sightings: Reviews 2002–2006. He writes regular review columns for Locus magazine and the Chicago Tribune, and co-hosts with Jonathan Strahan the Hugo-nominated Coode Street Podcast.
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September 7, 2018
Collection of the author's SF reviews from Locus magazine.
This is the second collection of reviews I've read by Gary K. Wolfe. What I've discovered is that it's interesting to read his take on books I've also read but his descriptions of books I haven't read seldom draw me in. I don't like the convoluted sentences he writes - most sentences are paragraphs long and include commas, dashes, and parentheses. I end up having to trace back what the main object of the sentence was because of all the tangents and backup information he adds. I much prefer Jo Walton's style of reviews.
I did add two more collections of reviews/essays to my TBR list (Scores: Reviews 1993-2003 by Clute and Up Through an Empty House of Stars by David Langford) but only one novel (Spin, by Robert Charles Wilson) as a result of reading this.
This is the second collection of reviews I've read by Gary K. Wolfe. What I've discovered is that it's interesting to read his take on books I've also read but his descriptions of books I haven't read seldom draw me in. I don't like the convoluted sentences he writes - most sentences are paragraphs long and include commas, dashes, and parentheses. I end up having to trace back what the main object of the sentence was because of all the tangents and backup information he adds. I much prefer Jo Walton's style of reviews.
I did add two more collections of reviews/essays to my TBR list (Scores: Reviews 1993-2003 by Clute and Up Through an Empty House of Stars by David Langford) but only one novel (Spin, by Robert Charles Wilson) as a result of reading this.
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