From: Michael Richman <mrichman@cybernex.net>
Subject: Re: (whorl) The Next Whorl
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 23:52:38 


[Posted from WHORL, the mailing list for Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun]


>More news: Yes, there may be more Soldier books---there have been many,
>many reader requests, and Hartwell himself is fond of them. But there are
>problems. Hartwell confirmed my assumption that Wolfe, in perfectionist
>mode, found the period details difficult, but said there was a serious
>second problem from a publisher's viewpoint. Latro's memory failure,
>established in the first 100 pages of the first book (and a brilliant 100
>pages, said he) is a stumbling block for anyone starting with any
>subsequent book. Merely to put a "translator's note" in the beginning is,
>in his opinion, not sufficient to clue in the new reader. I'm not certain
>of that myself, but I pass it on.

I guess there's only one thing for them to do--reissue the the first two.
And this time, let them put some half naked women on the cover so the books
will move!


Michael Richman
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