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From: marudubshinki at gmail.com (maru)
Date: Sat Apr  2 16:58:10 2005
Subject: (urth) tBotNS ref
Message-ID: <424F3F9B.7000904 at gmail.com>

I realize none of you probably care, but seeing a reference to
The Book of The New Sun in a relatively mainstream media is so rare
I feel compelled to pass it on.

 From www.pennyarcade.com:

> I cobbled together what I /expected/ to be a cache of terrible science 
> fiction I could detest beneath an umbrella, and instead it proved so 
> excellent I've nearly exhausted my store. The Eyre Affair, apparently 
> a part of some larger series, is sci-fi of such a constrained genre 
> that I wasn't even aware it existed: romantic, /literary/ sci-fi, for 
> people who like stories about time travel, alternate universes, and 
> classic literature where the protagonist gets married at the end. 
> Ridiculous. Endearing. Like an exorbitant designer truffle too rich to 
> eat in plain view.
>
> Also! There is an old series - both of these books are pretty old, 
> actually - by an author named Gene Wolfe called "The Book of The New 
> Sun." I believe it was originally four books, but they've been 
> compiled into two 
> <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312890176/qid=1112374369/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/102-9811043-1345707?v=glance&s=books&n=507846> 
> volumes 
> <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312890184/qid=1112374369/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i2_xgl14/102-9811043-1345707?v=glance&s=books&n=507846> 
> - you may click those without fear, they are not "make me rich" links. 
> I saw the cover, the one with the stern-looking scary sword guy, and 
> declared aloud, "Yes! This is /sure/ to be overwrought!" but found 
> nothing of the sort. It's science fantasy the equal of which I've 
> never read. I've also got Orson Scott Card's Seventh Son, a kind of 
> early American fantasy as I understand it, and I tremble in the hope 
> that I'll be three for three on this book thing.
>



~Maru

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