Genre Fiction: The Roaring Years by Peter Nicholls:
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John Jarrold on Twitter, 2 September 2022: "It's wonderful...and you can hear Peter's voice so clearly...one of my oldest SF chums, and I miss him." Adam Roberts at Sibilant Fricative, 2 September 2022: "This is very good: a collection of reviews and essays by the late Peter Nicholls, of SF Encyclopedia editing fame [...] You see Nicholls developing and improving as a critic as you read through. His earlier pieces are flatter, sometimes concerned with irrelevancies such as his personal rankings of writers [...] But as he goes on, his pieces becomes sharper: more insightful and thought-provoking and also funnier. There's a brilliant 1990 review/essay on Ian Watson, the great if now catastrophically underappreciated British writer – one day I hope to write a short monograph on Watson's writing – and an excellent paean to Gene Wolfe ('he is the metaphysical poet of science fiction; he has a great deal more in common with Donne or Marvell or Crashaw than he does with Heinlein. I'm being quite serious, while fully conscious of rendering myself liable to incarceration in Pseud's Corner.') [...] Overall this is an often brilliant and always entertaining collection." |
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