From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Old School
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 00:20:13 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cathy Green" <dalek_cag at yahoo.com>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 11:38 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Old School

> --- 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."
> >
> >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.

You misunderstand.  The novel is not a collection of previously-published
stories linked together.  It was written as a separate novel *in addition
to* the preceding stories set in that universe.   I don't recall thinking
it disjointed when I ran it in AMAZING, but it's been too many years since
I read it for me to argue the point.

--Ted White