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    "id": 906,
    "subject": "Reviews and Wolfe's sales figures",
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    "first": "2000-08-07T09:59:49+00:00",
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0011-0053@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Ron Crown",
        "address": "crownrw at slu.edu"
      },
      "date": "2000-08-07T09:59:49+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Reviews and Wolfe's sales figures",
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          "text": "I will temporarily de-lurk to offer a couple of mini-reviews of IGJ from\nimportant trade publications (Library Journal has a big impact on\nlibrary sales).\n\n   Library Journal, July 2000 v125 i12 p147 \n\nIn Green's Jungles. (Review)_(book review) Jackie Cassada. \nFull Text: COPYRIGHT 2000 Cahners Publishing Company \n\nWolfe, Gene. In Green's Jungles. Tor. (Book of the Short Sun, Vol. 2).\nAug. 2000.  c.384p. ISBN 0-312-87315-8. $24.95. SF \n\nHorn's search for the legendary hero Patera Silk has taken him from the\nworld called Blue to the humid jungles of Green, a neighboring planet\npopulated by inhuman blood drinkers and their human slaves. As he tries\nto make sense of his wanderings, Horn's memories and dreams blend with\nthe present in an elusive and intriguing chronicle of an ordinary man\nforced into extraordinary circumstances. The sequel to On Blue's Waters\n(LJ 10/15/99), the latest in an epic cycle that evolves from the\nfour-volume \"Book of the Long Sun,\" displays Wolfe's signature;\nstyle--literate, complex, and multilayered.  Best read in the context of\nprevious books in the series, this exploration of the nature of identity\nand reality belongs in libraries that own the preceding series titles. \n\n\n\nPublishers Weekly, June 26, 2000 v247 i26 p54 \n\nIN GREEN'S JUNGLES. (Review)_(book review) \nFull Text: COPYRIGHT 2000 Cahners Publishing Company \n\nGENE WOLFE. Tor, $24.95 (384p) ISBN 0-312-87315-8 \n\nIn 1980, Wolfe published The Shadow of the Torturer, the first volume in\nhis now classic Book of the New Sun, which was eventually followed by\nhis much-praised Book of the Long Sun sequence. Whereas the former\nseries was set on the decadent planet Urth, the latter took place within\nthe Whorl, a hollowed-out asteroid whose inhabitants knew nothing of the\nuniverse outside their failing world. At the end of the second series,\nthe charismatic Calde Silk led his people to the planets called Green\nand Blue and then disappeared. For years it had been rumored that the\ntwo novel sequences were somehow connected--and here the rumor is\nsubstantiated. In                          this second volume in The\nBook of the Short Sun (after On Blue's Waters), Horn, the narrator of\nthe Long Sun books, is on a quest for the lost Silk. Although he engages\nin numerous adventures--leading an army, slogging through a\nmonster-inhabited jungle, touring several exotic societies--the\nspecifics of the plot are almost inconsequential.  What counts is\nWolfe's gorgeous prose, the brilliant dialogue and the dazzling way that\nreality shifts from one paragraph to the next. Horn soon discovers that\nhe has the seemingly magical power to travel instantaneously between\nGreen and Blue, though his body and those of his compatriots undergo\nstrange changes with each shift. Eventually, they visit a world with a\ndying red sun that may be long-lost Urth. Oddly, Horn also discovers\nthat he has begun to physically resemble Silk. Like any middle volume in\na series, this novel leaves mysteries unsolved and plot threads hanging,\nbut that really doesn't matter. It's the sheer strangeness of this\nmasterful tale that counts, and the glorious sense of unknown wonders to\ncome. (Aug.) \n\n\nA review like the PW one especially should help but this morning I\nchecked the figures for the wholesaler that our library uses; they\npre-pub ordered 1200 copies of IGJ, as of today, they still have 757 \"on\nhand.\"  Of course, that doesn't mean that 443 have sold yet either, they\nmay have just delivered them to book stores which could still return\nthem.  Sadly, it appears that IGJ isn't jumping off the shelves, at\nleast not from our vendor (which is one of the major vendors for both\npublic and academic libraries).\n\nWhich raises a question for me; does anyone know about how many copies\n(hardcover and/or paperback) Wolfe sells?  I once ran into a Tor\nrepresentative at a library convention who mentioned the figure of\n10,000 hardcover copies as being the standard expectation for Wolfe. \nCan any of the well-connected denizens of the WHORL confirm/correct\nthis?  (or is it a closely guarded secret?)\n\nBack to lurk mode....\n\nRon Crown\nReference Librarian\nSaint Louis University\ncrownrw at slu.edu\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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