{ "export": { "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/3973", "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it. Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.", "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'" }, "archive": "urth", "thread": { "id": 3973, "subject": "Reading Order", "messages": 4, "voices": 4, "first": "2003-04-27T14:37:08+00:00", "last": "2003-04-27T22:41:45+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Oren Douek", "address": "orend at axelero.hu" }, "date": "2003-04-27T14:37:08+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Reading Order", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I have a quick question. Would it be terrible if I read the Short Sun\nsequence after finishing the New Sun one? Or must I read the Long Sun in\nbetween?\n\nThanks, Oren" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Steve Strickland", "address": "sstrickland at satx.rr.com" }, "date": "2003-04-27T16:27:50+00:00", "subject": "Re: (urth) Reading Order", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Oren,\n\nThere's no need to read New Sun first. I think Short Sun would be terribly\ndifficult and not nearly as satisfying if you hadn't read Long Sun first.\nJust one man's opinion.\n\nSteve Strickland\n\n----- Original Message ----- " }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "From: \"Oren Douek\" \nTo: \nSent: Sunday, April 27, 2003 9:37 AM\nSubject: (urth) Reading Order\nI have a quick question. Would it be terrible if I read the Short Sun\nsequence after finishing the New Sun one? Or must I read the Long Sun in\nbetween?\n\nThanks, Oren\n\n\n-- " } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Gareth Jelley", "address": "gjelley at btopenworld.com" }, "date": "2003-04-27T16:22:12+00:00", "subject": "Re: (urth) Reading Order", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "From: \"Oren Douek\" \nI have a quick question. Would it be terrible if I read the Short Sun\nsequence after finishing the New Sun one? Or must I read the Long Sun in\nbetween?" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Personally, I wouldn't worry, as reading the books in an order different to\nthe published order could shed light on different issues, because you'd be\ncoming at it from a different angle. I'm reading the Short Sun books first,\nand then I plan to read either the New Sun or the Long Sun books. So I'd go\nwith whatever your mood is, as, if nothing else, it will mean that you\n'read' the Wolfe-Urth-universe in a personal - and perhaps quite fruitfully\nnon-linear - way.\n\nMy two cents :o)\n\nBest,\n\nG." } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Joshuafalchion", "address": "joshuafalchion at aol.com" }, "date": "2003-04-27T22:41:45+00:00", "subject": "Re: (urth) Reading Order", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Oren, I say read the books in the order they were published--I am currently \ngoing through them all myself, in order. I just finished New Sun for my \nfourth or fifth (or possibly sixth--I lose count with Wolfe, just as I lose \ncount with all my favorite novelists), and I found that it contains \nfascinating clues (as regards Typhon and his relationship with the \nConciliator, as well as others) that are helping me in my current (third) \nreading of Long Sun. I've only read Short Sun once, but if I learned nothing \nelse during that reading, it was that I should have paid more attention to \nLong Sun.\nI'd love to talk about the connective tissue between the three series, but \nmost of the points I would make have already been beaten to death by others \nin this group. I would say (hopefully without spoiling anything) that it is \nvaluable to remember the strong possibility that Typhon the Monarch and \nPatera Silk are, genetically, the same person--in which case it behooves us \nall to study both characters as closely as possible (and on that subject, \nWolfe gives us, in two widely-separated clues, the information that Typhon is \nblond-haired, just like Silk is).\nHappy reading! " } ] } ] }