Reviewer Praise for Guyal the Curator
It is not often a single short story merits its own review. This one is particularly favorable:
http://fantasticworlds-jordan179.blogspot.com/2012/04/review-of-guyal-curator-2009-by-john-c.html
The money quote:
With this story, coupled with his work in the universes of A. E. Van Vogt’s World of Null-A and William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land, John C. Wright is establishing himself as not merely a great writer and creator of his own fictional worlds, but also as a supremely-talented worker in other people’s worlds.
I am curious about one thing:
He even made an implicit analogy between one of the protagonists and the hero of another very famous Jack Vance series, which was not originally part of the Dying Earth ‘verse, by syncretizing the two ‘verses. And it was done subtly — I didn’t explicitly realize the thematic connection between “Guyal the Curator” and the famous Jack Vance series until I sat down to write this review.
Frankly, I am wondering which link which I made to other series written by Vance he saw. I can think of two or three I slipped into the story.
But rush right out and buy five copies of SONGS OF THE DYING EARTH in hardback, lose them, and buy five more, to make up for Jordan borrowing it from the library.