Long Sun Laughs

John Watkins · 09 Jan 2009, 19:30 · from 2009-January.txt.gz

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From: john.watkins04 at gmail.com (John Watkins)
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 14:30:14 -0500
Subject: (urth) Long Sun Laughs
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I loved the ending of Lake, too--it's when I moved from liking the
books to LOVING them.  Just, right in the middle of this sort of
religious mystery story, a full on BOND VILLAIN appears and is
simultaneously scary and kind of funny and awesome.  And then I
realized what others have pointed out, which is that the first book is
a crime story and the second book is a spy story and Gene is taking
genres apart to show he can.

Great stuff.  I'm reading this starting sometime next month.

On 1/9/09, Son of Witz <sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org> wrote:
> wow.
> the ending of Lake was crazy awesome!
> I'm so glad that the false pantheon and the nature of the Whorl CAN'T be the whole mystery, because that was too easy to suss out.
>
> without knowing the rest, I'd say for me, the most profound moment was when Silk looked out the (Loganstone ?) and saw the stars and knew Pas was minor compared to what was out there, and he saw the REAL SUN peeking over the plain of the starcrosser.  Great stuff.  a gnostic metaphor of a world with a false creator and help from outside that creation. The Real Sun (God) outshining a False Sun (demiurge).  beautifully illustrated. I love how he flees, terrified from having seen the real sun.
>
> can't wait to see where this thing goes....
>
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