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Now, **this** is funny: "I recently asked a veteran New York editor whether Wolfe could find a publisher today if he were just coming along as a young writer. ?Probably not, she a…
01 Jun 2007, 12:33
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Dang. How the heck? I've had one on order for months and months and I haven't gotten notification of shipping yet? Enjoy. Hope it has been worth the wait of several decades!…
14 Apr 2007, 11:07
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Greetings: "One of the most impressive narrative tours-de-forces I have ever read was _Fire_, by George R. Stewart (author of the SF classic _Earth Abides_)," Earth Abides was ex…
13 Apr 2007, 18:08
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Greetings: I've enjoyed several of Kurt V's works--Player Piano, SL-5--but at some point became highly unenchanted. So it goes. FPK3…
13 Apr 2007, 16:49
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Greetings: "All my moderately humble opinion, of course." Of course! :) FPK3…
12 Apr 2007, 18:32
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Greetings: "The HORARS of War (Blade Runner rip-off)" On the other hand, you might be saying (as you said in the previous title in your list) that it would be perceived as a BR r…
12 Apr 2007, 16:04
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Greetings: "The HORARS of War (Blade Runner rip-off)" If this is the one I'm thinking off...wasn't it written well before either the P.K. Dick tale, the Alan E. Nourse tale or th…
12 Apr 2007, 16:02
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Greetings: "In pondering the difficulties of filming a Wolfe novel, and there are many, I think it is a mistake for us to sell screenwriters and film directors short." Welllllll.…
12 Apr 2007, 15:16
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"While I was there I also picked up a copy of "Endangered Species". A good day out." Any day buying books is better than a day spent fishing. FPK3…
10 Apr 2007, 16:52
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Greetings: "The events of the Latro series would probably translate well but I'm not sure that the same sense of Latro's memory loss could be maintained throughout a film as are…
10 Apr 2007, 12:04
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Greetings: For me, it sometimes takes a long time to find music that fits a particular author, or a particular action. Sometimes it happens by accident and is so perfect it is sca…
10 Apr 2007, 00:44
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Greetings: "That's quite a selection. And I can see the merit in all those artists. "Are they all artists you would listen to anyway? Any specific to GW?" They are all folks I…
10 Apr 2007, 00:32
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Greetings: "Are we getting too off-list if I ask you what you listen to when you read POB?" My jumping off point was a combination of the soundtrack to the fillum (Master & Comma…
10 Apr 2007, 00:27
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Greetings: Wizard-Knight would work. Latro would work. Urth, etc., maybe not. As for music... Howard Shore, Hans Zimmer and a few other composers that mostly work in film would …
09 Apr 2007, 23:25
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Greetings: So there I was showing my father-in-law how to use Yahoo mail, make folders, open them, etc., and sort his mail, etc., when I opened my "Fiction" folder on my account. …
09 Apr 2007, 03:24
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So would this be a good time to mention on the Urth mailing list that a careful reading of "21", the final, uncompleted novel in the Aubrey-Maturin series mentions a strange figure…
08 Apr 2007, 12:08
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