Wolfe's Editor on The Short Sun Books

Patri10629 · 26 Sep 1999, 11:38 · from whorl-v0010.mbox · original

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From: Patri10629 at aol.com
Subject: Re: (whorl) Wolfe's Editor on The Short Sun Books
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 07:38:33 EDT
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Lupes,

This just in from David G. Hartwell, Gene's editor at TOR. I didn't think=20
he'd mind
if I shared this snippet about the Short Sun Trilogy.

9/25/99

"I just last night finished Return to the Whorl, which is so full of=20
surprises and marvels that I had to read it more slowly as I went, even=20
though I was eager to read it faster. You will understand later. But each=20
volume is more than the previous, and the whole is even more mind-expanding=20
than I imagined."

Exactly my experience in reading ON BLUE'S WATERS--torn between savoring,=20
gluttony and starving for more.

Words are truly incapable of saying just how beautiful I found this first=20
book to be.

I will read it two or three more times, then might have something to say.

Years ago Wolfe told a friend of mine (regarding the short sun books) that =
he=20
"wanted to make it so good it hurts."

It is so good it hurts.

Patrick O'Leary

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