The Green Glass Sea is expected to be released by Viking Juvenile this fall. Savor the complete story first.Įxperience the wonder of the green glass sea just as Dewey and Suze do.Įllen Klages won the 2004 Nebula Award for Best Novelette for “Basement Magic” and had previously been nominated for Hugo, Nebula, and Campbell awards. Save for later the short story version on Strange Horizons.īarely allow yourself to peak at Cory Doctorow’s “ Sf story of great note” on Boing Boing from September 2004. Wait to read Lisa Dugan calling The Green Glass Sea a “fall favorite” in Children’s Bookshelf on July 6, 2006. Unless you are one of those readers who must read the last chapter first, please don’t do it. You must wait until very late in The Green Glass Sea to learn the origin of Dewey’s name as well as the origin of the title too. But some parents must do that in order to work, not to mention those whose patriotic duty calls them for what is seemingly best for our country. I still will strive to understand how parents reconcile themselves to leaving their children unsupervised and allowed to face life only on their own devices.

Gordon, Suze’s mother, for her sympathy and true understanding of not only Dewey’s plight but the repercusions of warfare. I will forever ponder if those parents just didn’t really understand “what they were doing” as they built the first nuclear bomb in secluded Los Alamos or even as they smoked Chesterfields seemingly with every breath. My imagination crackles with excitement over those two girls just as the geiger counters must have in 1945 after “the gadget” was first tried.Įllen Klages has written a most profound novel. She became, surely of course, a great feminine artist from the American Southwest. I believe that we all have known of Suze, Dewey’s friend, too. Would I recognize her if I read today about her great mechanical accomplishments in an obituary noting the passing of a great woman, a free thinker, a recluse who, I am sure, also befriended all sorts of waifs in need? So much was I fascinated with her that for days after completing The Green Glass Sea she stayed firmly in my mind. What librarian wouldn’t be fascinated by a little girl named Dewey?

The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages