LAKE OF THE LONG SUN by Gene Wolfe

Patrick Nielsen-Hayden · 08 Jan 1994, 23:46 · from sf-lovers.1994.mbox

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From: pnh at panix.com (Patrick Nielsen-Hayden)
Subject: Re: LAKE OF THE LONG SUN by Gene Wolfe
Date: 8 Jan 94 23:46:43 GMT
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mce at halcyon.com (Brian McElhinney) writes:
>I really, really, hate The Book of the Long Sun as a title.  Much too
>similar to you-know-what.  From the LoC entry in volume one it appears
>Wolfe originally intended the series to be titled Starcrosser's Landfall.

Uh uh. Gene originally intended the series to be titled The Book of the
Long Sun.  "Starcrosser's Landfall" was the invention of Gene's editor,
David Hartwell, who later thought better of it.  However, S's L does carry
on a ghost existence in a few catalogs.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden
senior editor
Tor Books

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