(urth) NPR taking suggestions for The Best Science Fiction and

Daniel Petersen danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com
Sun Jun 26 06:42:49 PDT 2011


You're probably right, Marc.  But being plunged into all that mystery
through the wonders of Short Sun is still quite exciting and inviting.  I
sometimes feel people on this board are far more into solving little (and
huge) puzzles than they are into a sense of wonder, awe, magic, thrill,
humanity, divinity, great writing, and so on in Gene Wolfe.  I know the
puzzles are integral to his art - but I just don't feel like the other
aspects get much air time.

DOJP

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:02 PM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com>wrote:

> You could read Long Sun before New or Short Sun, but starting at Short Sun
> just ruins so many little cool things, like the whole "I caught the ball, I
> won the game" thing at the end of On Blue's Water, Horn talking about "his"
> dancing toy, things that undeniably let you know there is something of Silk
> running around in that narrator.
> I like the published order, but Long and New should both be read before
> Short.  If you don't have a thorough understanding of the positive outlook
> of Silk and his "out of character" suicidal impulse Short Sun could never
> make full sense.
>
>
> --- On *Thu, 6/23/11, Daniel Petersen <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com>*wrote:
>
>
> From: Daniel Petersen <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: (urth) NPR taking suggestions for The Best Science Fiction and
> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
> Date: Thursday, June 23, 2011, 9:31 AM
>
> You know, I actually did read On Blue's Waters, then stopped and went back
> and read Long Sun before then re-reading Blue and the rest of Short Sun.  It
> was indeed a very, very strange experience - but hugely enticing.
>  Unfortunately it took away some of the mystery I think I would have
> encountered in reading Long Sun if I had had no or little clue what was
> coming.
>
> I think John Clute wondered in a review whether jumping right into Wolfe at
> Blue might be the best way.  I've always wondered the same.
>
> DOJP
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Andrew Mason <
> andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com<http://us.mc1618.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=andrew.mason53@googlemail.com>
> > wrote:
>
> Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 1:09 PM,  <entonio at gmail.com<http://us.mc1618.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=entonio@gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> >> Ha. The Book of the Long Sun is so much better!
>
> > I agree. But is it better if you haven't read "Short Sun?" (I *think*
> > it is anyway, but I haven't experienced it in that order.)
>
> You read _Short Sun_ first? Was that not a rather puzzling experience?
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