Wolfe's "New Sun": Severian Unmasked!

The Cutest Man on The Net · 24 Sep 1995, 15:45 · from sf-lovers.1995.mbox

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: eaobrien at ebi.ac.uk (The Cutest Man on The Net)
Subject: Re: Wolfe's "New Sun": Severian Unmasked!
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 15:45:19 GMT
Message-ID: <sflovers-v20-370-4 at digest.sf-lovers>
X-Digest-Issue: SF-LOVERS Digest V20 #370
X-Urthmirror-Source: https://archive.org/details/sf-lovers-digest-vol-20b

>BTW, any opinion on "The Urth of the New Sun" and "The Book of the Long
>Sun"?  How do you rank these with "The Book of the New Sun"?

  _Urth_ I liked, but not as much as the Book.. it comes a long time after
_Book of the New Sun_, and.. how to put this without spoilers.. made some
of the ambiguities I really liked about the Book less so.

  _Book of the Long Sun_ I am really enjoying, it doesn't seem to have
quite the depth and number of levels to it that _The Book of the New Sun_
did but that's after reading only the first three. It's a great deal more
accessible, things are much more gradually linear rather than fitting
together suddenly at odd moments.

Emmet

An unofficial mirror of a public mailing list · about & removal requests · download the archive · before the list · original archive at urth.net