Clute's review of OBW

William H. Ansley · 03 Nov 1999, 00:19 · from whorl-v0010.mbox · original

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From: "William H. Ansley" <wansley at warwick.net>
Subject: Re: (whorl) Clute's review of OBW
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 00:19:50
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>A very interesting review of ON BLUE'S WATERS by John
>Clute appears online in the latest SF WEEKLY. He
>states that Tor will release both IN GREEN'S JUNGLES
>and RETURN TO THE WHORL in 2000, and speculates
>(perhaps on the basis of textual inference, perhaps
>from privileged information) that RETURN TO THE WHORL
>concerns events that occur after Horn's writing of ON
>BLUE'S WATERS.

Interesting is hardly the word for Clute's speculation, quoted above. It
don't make no sense! I think it is pretty clear that Horn has visited and
returned from The Whorl already by the time he has written OBW from the
hints contained within. If that is so, then shouldn't the title of the
final book be _Re-return to the Whorl_?

Well, one more reason I just can't wait.

William Ansley

"Having re-redisposed of the monster, our hero exits stage right."
-Bugs Bunny

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