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Dave Lebling09 Dec 2000, 11:54original as archived

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The Short Sun books are apparently being treated as planetary adventure; which is about the right subgenre, when you come right down to it. We can just bloody well like it or lump it.

Dan'l wrote great wisdom on covers, but... I just recently bought the omnibus Jack Vance Dying Earth trade pb (my Lancer Dying Earth is falling apart, etc.). The cover depicts a genre spaceship hovering over a genre future-abstract planet's surface. This book is published by Orb, which, as I recall, is Tor (Wolfe's publisher) under an assumed name. Dying Earth is, as I hope we all know, magic&fantasy&manners set in the far, far future. Certainly a Unique, but the people looking for spaceships are going to be very confused. Explain that one, please, Dan'l. -- Vizcacha aka Dave Lebling *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes11 Dec 2000, 08:39original as archived

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Vizcacha wrote: I just recently bought the omnibus Jack Vance Dying Earth trade pb (my Lancer Dying Earth is falling apart, etc.). The cover depicts a genre spaceship hovering over a genre future-abstract planet's surface. This book is published by Orb, which, as I recall, is Tor (Wolfe's publisher) under an assumed name. Dying Earth is, as I hope we all know, magic&fantasy&manners set in the far, far future. Certainly a Unique, but the people looking for spaceships are going to be very confused. Explain that one, please, Dan'l.

Easy. Incompetence. *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.

Paul C Duggan12 Dec 2000, 12:40original as archived

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I just recently bought the omnibus Jack Vance Dying Earth trade pb (my Lancer Dying Earth is falling apart, etc.). The cover depicts a genre spaceship hovering over a genre future-abstract planet's surface. This book is published by Orb, which, as I recall, is Tor (Wolfe's publisher) under an assumed name. Dying Earth is, as I hope we all know, magic&fantasy&manners set in the far, far future. Certainly a Unique, but the people looking for spaceships are going to be very confused. Explain that one, please, Dan'l.

Easy. Incompetence.

I dunno. It kinda reminded me of the scene where Rhialto and co go off for the source of IOUN stones. Don't they have some kind of flying platform? Paul *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes12 Dec 2000, 09:50original as archived

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Explain that one, please, Dan'l.

Easy. Incompetence.

I dunno. It kinda reminded me of the scene where Rhialto and co go off for the source of IOUN stones. Don't they have some kind of flying platform?

This is what I get for attempting irony on an email list. Damn it, do we have to put little emoticons after ***everything*** ... *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.

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