Harmonies and Mysteries: a review of Gene Wolfe’s On Blue’s Waters
Reviewed by Nigel Price. On Blue’s Waters is a fine book. Beautifully written, it is by turns thrilling and amusing, moving and intriguing but, like much of Wolfe’s work, it defies easy classification. The most commonly used description for Wolfe’s series novels is “science fantasy”. This can be a slippery and misleading category. Some science [...]