On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 14:03:19 -0600, Johne Cook <johne.cook at gmail.com> wrote: > Gene Wolfe's _The Knight_ was my favorite book of last year. I've > been looking foward to second half of the story but figured it'd be > awhile before it came out. The Wizard was available before Christmas, but I didn't see The Knight, so I didn't ask for this for Christmas. I ended up buying The Knight a couple of weeks ago when it came out in trade ppb. I wanted those books, but I've never been chomping at the bit for a Gene Wolfe book to come out, and have a big backlog. There are only a small handful of Brusts in this world whose works I can't wait for paperback. A decade ago, I worked for EDS. A coworker and I had a team leader named Susan Burkhardsmeir, who used to be Susan French - her sister later married Bill Gates. That coworker was named Gene Wolfe. He was a horseman and furrier who decided he needed money and became a programmer. (When he graduated from college he wanted to join the Peace Corps and teach cattle to Africans - they had other ideas, so he joined the Army). I found a clipping from Locus that he copied and posted on his cubicle: Gene Wolfe is so good he makes me cry - Ursula LeGuin. -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/