<div>On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 7:30 PM, James Wynn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crushtv@gmail.com">crushtv@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
Additionally, check out the story "The Tree is My Hat". It takes place on Cassie's island. (that's what Wolfe called it).</blockquote></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>Oh yeah! I'd heard he said that before I read AEG and forgot! Amazing! That makes even more sense of the strong impression I was getting that the South Sea island portion of this novel felt so much like 'The Tree Is My Hat' (and also reminded me of the shark-dwarves in his story 'Black Shoes'). Cool, thanks.<br>
<br>Wolfe is so good at consistently re-visiting a setting in a totally different context. He does this in his story 'The Night Chough' - the little tale itself feels like it has little or nothing to do with the story of TBotNS, but the SETTING feels exactly as if you're on the Blue of New Sun. Once Wolfe builds a place, it really stays put! It seems he can go back any time he wants. I am seriously, seriously in awe of that.<br>
<div><br></div><div>-DOJP<br><br></div>