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<DIV>Does anyone know if there will be another book coming out in the Latros
series? </DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 3/19/2010 2:07:59 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
urth-request@lists.urth.net writes:</DIV>
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1<BR>Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:34:38 -0400<BR>From: "Son of Witz"
<sonofwitz@butcherbaker.org><BR>To: Urth@urth.net<BR>Subject: (urth)
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<4a322928e1c85c142f2fbf50f2d26399.squirrel@email.fatcow.com><BR>Content-Type:
text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1<BR><BR>I just began part II of Soldier of Sidon
this morning. I'm really loving<BR>this book. Very spooky.<BR><BR>It's really
easy to get caught up with Wolfes puzzle-boxes and amazing<BR>writing chops,
but now and then his books hit me on such an emotional<BR>level that I'm
stunned. In Short Sun, the "Oh Scylla" exclamation had me<BR>crying. In Sidon,
chapters 27 & 28 have me close to tears. Were I reading<BR>it alone at
home I might shed some, but as it was I read it on the train,<BR>so I manned
up and choked em in. ;)<BR><BR>In 27 everything goes haywire, they are
caught after escaping the mines.<BR>In 28, he's in a sick bed, sold into
slavery, and is saved / and saves<BR>Myt-Ser'eu. Poor Latro. I can't imagine
having this dilemma. The moments<BR>where his love shines through his lack of
memory, and he kills Kitty's<BR>abusers are heart wrenching.<BR><BR>Chapter 28
really illustrates his dilemma. Where would he be without a<BR>friend to help
him out? It's easy to read his story and almost forget the<BR>absolute
discontinuity of his experience. He has friends and a bit of the<BR>night
before to help him out. When he wakes up in the sick bed in Chap 28<BR>though,
he's really lost. He doesn't even know for sure if he is the "L"<BR>that
writes. Reading that really struck me. I'm not a man who looks back<BR>to the
past very much at all, but these books make me extremely grateful<BR>for
memories and friends. I don't have the words to express how
chilling<BR>this chapter was for me.<BR><BR>Another aspect of Wolfe that
amazes me is his ability to put himself into<BR>this world and find the small
details another writer wouldn't even<BR>imagine. It's simple details
that summon profoundly human musing that<BR>really floors me, such as the
geese in this quote.<BR><BR>[quote]<BR>Geese fly overhead, flying by night,
calling like new boots across the sky<BR>to their fellows. It may be the last
sound I hear. Every man hears a last<BR>sound. For many it must be the
clash of arms. That is a good last sound,<BR>but the shouts of geese is a
better one. We sink into the earth, down<BR>into the lands of the dead.
Where I shall drink from Death's river to<BR>forget a life I cannot
remember.<BR>[/quote]<BR><BR>This is a paragraph written by a man with
remarkable depth of soul. Gene<BR>Wolfe may be a great and tricky
science-fantasy author, and a lot is made<BR>of his head scratching
acrobatics, but first and foremost he is human with<BR>a profound sense of
empathy and an amazing gift for conveying it across<BR>the gulf between our
souls. I'm grateful to read his work. I think Latro<BR>might be my favorite of
his narrative voices. So very
human.<BR><BR>~Witz<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>------------------------------<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Urth
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