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An Evil Guest ハードカバー – 2008/9/16

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A tale set a century into the future finds an actress confronting ancient and supernatural forces while struggling to choose between her two lovers, a sorcerer private detective who launches her career and a mysterious man of wealth who appears with her in a play. 25,000 first printing.

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304ページ
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2008/9/16
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16.51 x 2.54 x 23.5 cm
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0765321335
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978-0765321336
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GENE WOLFE is winner of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, and many other awards. In 2007, he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. He lives in Barrington, Illinois.

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出版社 ‏ : ‎ Tor Books (2008/9/16)
発売日 ‏ : ‎ 2008/9/16
言語 ‏ : ‎ 英語
ハードカバー ‏ : ‎ 304ページ
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0765321335
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0765321336
寸法 ‏ : ‎ 16.51 x 2.54 x 23.5 cm

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Wolfe continues to prove himself a master of story.

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Die Handlung spielt in der nahen Zukunft. Der Detektiv Gideon Chase ist berühmt dafür, Fälle zu lösen die sonst keiner lösen kann. Er wird in eine geheime Sache eingeweiht und soll hinter das Geheimnis von Bill Reis kommen, einem ehemaligen Botschafter vom Planeten Woldercan, der offensichtlich einige besondere Eigenschaften besitzt. Gideon Chase macht sich die Hilfe der Schauspielerin Cassie Casey zu Nutze, indem er ihr erst eine übernatürliche Ausstrahlung verschafft und sie dann mit Bill Reis zusammenbringt. Doch die Ereignisse geraten außer Kontrolle, denn es gibt noch weitere Mächte auf der Erde...

Kein Gene Wolfe Buch gleicht dem anderen. Dieses Mal haben wir es mit einem Pulp Detektivroman zu tun, der SF und Horror Elemente enthält. Die Hauptperson ist Cassie. Sie ist ziemlich geschwätzig und ausschließlich durch ihre Unterhaltungen und Reaktionen auf Erlebnisse wird die Handlung vorangetrieben. Auf den ersten Blick liest sich das ganze wie ein normaler Roman, angereichert mit einigen phantastischen Zutaten, und man könnte zum Schluss kommen dass es sich um eines der einfacheren Bücher von Gene Wolfe handelt. Dem ist definitiv nicht so, ganz im Gegenteil. Es fällt relativ schwer die erste Ebene zu durchbrechen und sich einen Sinn auf das Geschehen zu machen. Wie immer ist es wichtig, auf die Einzelheiten zu achten - und zwar auf alle!

Lesenswert wird der Roman durch seine lebendigen Charaktere. Ihr Verhalten und ihre Gespräche wirken sehr real und immer nachvollziehbar. Ungewöhnlich ist, dass es nur selten Beschreibungen gibt. Das erfordert einige Arbeit vom Leser, weil es zwischen den Geschehnissen zeitliche Sprünge gibt und einiges nur rückblickend erzählt wird. Dadurch macht es Gene Wolfe seinen Lesern unnötig schwer und wie man sieht sind die Reaktionen eher geteilt bzw. negativ. Mir hat das Buch gut gefallen und ich werde es bestimmt noch ein zweites Mal lesen!

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All too much glamour, not enough substance

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The thing with Gene Wolfe, I think, is you can't really enjoy his novels till you've worked out what they are. I slogged all the way through his vast The Wizard Knight (Gollancz S.F.) , wondering exactly that, and only afterwards realised I'd read one of the best heroic fantasies ever written, and a real re-imagining of the form. Here, "Lovecraft meets Blade Runner" is an enticing description, but one that doesn't really apply. In fact, considering the way that phrase gets the genre-glands salivating, it's a description that can only hinder enjoyment of what was never going to be either Lovecraftian, nor future noir -- those works are mostly to do with lashings of dark atmosphere, but Wolfe's prose is too sparse to be atmospheric in that way. He doesn't do the same sort of despairing existential darkness that Lovecraft did, nor the downtrodden uncertainties of Blade Runner. He just seems a bit too down-to-earth for that.

So what sort of a novel is An Evil Guest? Instead of 30s film noir, I'd say its nostalgic air has more to do with the screwball musical comedies of the era, with its glamorous actress heroine, Cassie Casey, pursued by not one but two desirable leading men: the high-powered consultant and fix-it man Gideon Chase (who may be a wizard), and the ultra-rich Bill Reis (who may be an alchemist, or an alien, or an enemy spy). Shenanigans ensue as Cassie, caught between them, tries to work out what's going on. This reader wondered too, and often found himself in the midst of conversations where the characters sit each other down with the intention of asking some telling questions, but somehow never quite manage it. There are abrupt changes of direction -- what starts out as a political/occult thriller enters gangster territory, then innocent-American-abroad; characters disappear suddenly, leaving you wondering why they were there in the first place; brief, enticing hints of an alien presence on Earth, a supernatural strain amongst humans, and an alternative science on another planet, remain just that -- hints. I know Gene Wolfe is renowned for his subtle hints, but surely a hint can be only so subtle before it becomes merely an undeveloped idea. The Lovecraftian bit, when it arrives, points to an intriguing take on the Mythos, but, again, is barely developed before we've moved on. There are lots of ideas, but they don't ever cohere into a satisfying unity, a satisfying world. I began to suspect I was reading something which would resolve in the same dreamlike way as, perhaps, Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday, or perhaps Philip K Dick's Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, but An Evil Guest isn't that either.

I know there are many to whom Gene Wolfe can do no wrong, and to a certain extent the ambiguities of his work leave it open for people who disagree to be accused of just not getting it. I loved his longer fantasy works (The Shadow of the Torturer etc., and The Wizard Knight) but have to admit that here I don't get it, even having left it a while after finishing the book in the hope it will digest a bit. Perhaps, in this case, Wolfe's reputation worked against him, and I expected too much, but I'm left feeling a bit empty and disappointed, as though I've sat down to a faerie banquet: all too much glamour, and not enough substance. And it may be that "glamour" is the key word here -- Cassie's success as an actress is all about the glamour of her "star quality", and the off-stage Lovecraftian menace gets its power from the fear (or negative glamour) it engenders in its worshippers. But, although Wolfe says that Cassie's "elevation" to star status is just a bringing to the surface of what was within her anyway, it still all comes down to glamour in the end. Beneath all the glamour, what is there?

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Lighter than his usual stuff...still a fun read.

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If you're a Sci-Fi/Fantasy fan and you haven't heard of Gene Wolfe, all I can do is shake my head - from Book of the New Sun, to The Wizard, to his many short stories, you've been missing out on some of the best genre writing out there.

But perhaps even more intriguing than those classics is Wolfe's uncanny ability to write across genres, and create stories with a totally unique appeal. His latest novel "An Evil Guest" takes this route, combining seemingly disparate elements - a pulp murder mystery, golden-age science fiction, and Lovecraftian horror. It's a lot lighter than his usual fare, but it's still a thrilling tale that, true to Wolfe's style, is full of twists that will blindside you if you aren't reading carefully.

The tale begins a century into our future, when the President of the United States hires a man named Gideon Chase to track down a "traitor" known as William Reis. Right away, it's very clear that Chase is no ordinary private dick - the President calls him a "wizard", and his philosophical ruminations on good and evil are deeper than anything Sam Spade or Philip Marlow wisecracked in their day. This is just as well - Reis too is no ordinary man. He has been to the planet Woldercan, and has learned some "strange things" there - telepathy and talking to ghosts are the simplest of the President's guesses!

From there, the spotlight switches to Cassie Casey, a twice-married stage actress facing unemployment and an uncertain future. Chase enlists her aid in his mission, promising her riches and fame in return. The plan works - Casey soon finds herself the most popular actress in the world, as well object of Reis' attention - but not without far reaching consequences for all three of them.

Scene for scene, Wolfe succeeds at conjuring a decadent noirish atmosphere, as he whisks us from the backstage of Broadway, to fancy restaurants, posh hotels, and even a South Pacific island. For the most part, the story is very cohesive, though there are a few plot threads (oh Norma!) that had a questionable resolution, and moments I had to reread a page or two to grasp the ever-thickening plot. My only serious issue is with the somewhat anticlimactic ending, which failed to induce the primal dread and awe that was probably intended.

He also has some genuinely entertaining characters - from the the suave Gideon Chase, the swaggeringly irresistible William Reis, the adorably flighty Cassie and her colorful co-stars, he succeeds in giving each of them a unique voice, but occasionally there are moments when they all seem smarter than they should - at times they break out into a random analysis of themselves or their current situation, making parts of this book not entirely unlike watching an episode of "House".

Still, this book is proof that Gene Wolfe can write whatever kind of story he wants and make it work. If you've never read any of his work, give it a shot - this tricky adventure novel is quite enjoyable on its own, and will prepare you for Wolfe's more ponderous work, such as the New Sun series. And if you're a devoted fan like myself - well, you've probably read it already! Either way, it's hard to go wrong with this book.

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Disappointing

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Having read the synopsis, I was hoping for another "Gene Wolfe classic", however the book so far has been a disappointment to me. Apart from a few flashes of brilliant writing (hence the two star rating), the characters are two-dimensional, the plot is ponderous and there are pages and pages of simply boring dialogue - I've looked for the usual hidden clues and alternative meanings, but even these seem to be scarce. I must admit that I am only half-way through the book, however, unless someone can persuade me that it's worth persevering, I am going to put it aside. When comparing "An Evil Guest" with a similar type of story, such as "There are Doors", this is not in the same league.

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