Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 20:38:14 -0800 (PST)
From: Cathy Green <dalek_cag at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Old School
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

--- Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net> wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cathy Green" <dalek_cag at yahoo.com>
> To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 4:17 PM
> Subject: [WSFA] Re: Old School
>
> [...]
> >
> > "Light of Other Days" is a beautiful, melancholy
> > story.  When he expanded it into a novel, "Other
> Days,
> > Other Eyes" he wasn't as successful, imho. I did
> like
> > the use of slow glass as spyware in the novel.
> Shaw
> > clearly thought about what the most likely uses
> for
> > slow glass would be.
>
> I believe there were several other "slow glass"
> short stories before he did
> the novel, which I serialized in AMAZING.  The novel
> wasn't an "expansion"
> of the original story, though -- just an expansion
> on the use and
> ramifications of "slow glass."
>
> --Ted White
>
>That actually explains a lot about how the novel is
structured.  I found it somewhat disjointed.  It makes
much more sense as several stories/novellas with a
linked theme rather than a unitary novel.

--cathy

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