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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><div><font face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gwern Branwen wrote: "</span></font><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 12pt;">Where does Kim Stanley Robinson say this?"</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="font-style: italic;"><i style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></i></div><div>It comes from the blurb he provided for the back cover of the hardcover edition of Exodus from the Long Sun:</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><i>"Exodus from the Long Sun</i></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> is a wonderful finish to a sequence that stands beside</span><i style="font-size: small;"> The Book of the New Sun</i><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> as one of the greatest long science fiction novels ever written. Gene Wolfe is the King of the Slingshot Ending and this time the finale is a veritable Roman candle of heartstopping action and mind-boggling scale shifts. I read this book on a flight to Antarctica and kept forgetting to look out the window of the plane. Now all we can say is, Please start another one, Mr. Wolfe." -- Kim Stanley Robinson</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br></span></div><div><br></div><div>He also talks about it in his Introduction to The Very Best of Gene Wolfe, a modified version of which can be read online at <a href="http://www.nyrsf.com/2013/09/a-story-kim-stanley-robinson.html" target="_blank" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">http://www.nyrsf.com/2013/09/a-story-kim-stanley-robinson.html</a></div></span><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="font-style: italic;"><i style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></i></div><br></span> </div></body>
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