Reading Order

Joshuafalchion · 27 Apr 2003, 22:41 · from urth-v0304.mbox · original

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From: Joshuafalchion at aol.com
Subject: Re: (urth) Reading Order
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 18:41:45 EDT
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Oren, I say read the books in the order they were published--I am currently=20
going through them all myself, in order.  I just finished New Sun for my=20
fourth or fifth (or possibly sixth--I lose count with Wolfe, just as I lose=20
count with all my favorite novelists), and I found that it contains=20
fascinating clues (as regards Typhon and his relationship with the=20
Conciliator, as well as others) that are helping me in my current (third)=20
reading of Long Sun.  I've only read Short Sun once, but if I learned nothi=
ng=20
else during that reading, it was that I should have paid more attention to=20
Long Sun.
I'd love to talk about the connective tissue between the three series, but=20
most of the points I would make have already been beaten to death by others=20
in this group.  I would say (hopefully without spoiling anything) that it i=
s=20
valuable to remember the strong possibility that Typhon the Monarch and=20
Patera Silk are, genetically, the same person--in which case it behooves us=20
all to study both characters as closely as possible (and on that subject,=20
Wolfe gives us, in two widely-separated clues, the information that Typhon =
is=20
blond-haired, just like Silk is).
Happy reading!=20

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