# This Week in Google Alerts: _Shadows_, _The Land Across_ *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 28 Oct 2013* > 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. --- ### Gwern Branwen *28 Oct 2013, 15:36* Short story-by-story review of _Shadows of the New Sun: http://www.denofgeek.us/dvd-bluray/gene-wolfe/216306/shadows-of-the-new-sun-book-review Photo of old _New Sun_ book cover: http://librarianpetergreen.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-shadow-of-torturer-gene-wolfe.html Cory Doctorow comments on the _The Land Across_ preview: > Tor.com has published an excerpt from The Land Across, a new novel from the incomparable, astounding Gene Wolfe, which comes out on Nov 26. It's a kafkaesque travelogue about magical realms and harsh borders, and on the strength of the excerpt, I want to shove it directly through my eyeballs and into my brain: Reddit discusses the preview as well: http://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/1oz6w4/excerpt_from_gene_wolfes_new_novel_the_land/ Likewise generally positive. ``` gwern http://www.gwern.net ``` ---