<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Interesting...<br>I think the Short Sun series might be the most entertaining of the 3 series as a stand alone trilogy and could be an enjoyable read to the un-initiated..BUT if you have read the previous 2 series there so many more GW layers to open and try to unravel,,,brilliant..never thought of it that way before<br><br style="color: rgb(27, 44, 72);"><div style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: garamond,new york,times,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 20, 21);"><span style="color: rgb(27, 44, 72);">STUHAMM.COM<br>FACEBOOK/STUART.HAMM<br></span></span></span><br><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: system;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 20, 21);"> <span style="color: rgb(127, 0, 127);"></span></span></span></span><br></div><br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 6/24/11, Marc Aramini
<i><marcaramini@yahoo.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Marc Aramini <marcaramini@yahoo.com><br>Subject: Re: (urth) NPR taking suggestions for The Best Science Fiction and<br>To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth@lists.urth.net><br>Date: Friday, June 24, 2011, 3:02 PM<br><br><div id="yiv1067516344"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font: inherit;" valign="top"><div>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.<br></div>
<div>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.</div>
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<div><br>--- On <b>Thu, 6/23/11, Daniel Petersen <i><danielottojackpetersen@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br></div>
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<div id="yiv1067516344">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.
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<div>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.</div>
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<div class="yiv1067516344gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Andrew Mason <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://us.mc1618.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=andrew.mason53@googlemail.com">andrew.mason53@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="yiv1067516344gmail_quote">Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:<br><br>> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 1:09 PM, <<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://us.mc1618.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=entonio@gmail.com">entonio@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>>> Ha. The Book of the Long Sun is so much better!<br><br>> I agree. But is it better if you haven't read "Short Sun?" (I *think*<br>> it is anyway, but I haven't experienced it in that order.)<br><br>You read _Short Sun_ first? Was that not a rather puzzling experience?<br>
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