{ "export": { "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/sflovers/112", "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it. Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.", "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'" }, "archive": "sflovers", "thread": { "id": 112, "subject": "Another G.Wolfe book set in Urth milieu?", "messages": 4, "voices": 4, "first": "1993-09-14T10:39:22+00:00", "last": "1993-09-16T11:16:12+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Andrew Stevens", "address": "as at comlab.ox.ac.uk" }, "date": "1993-09-14T10:39:22+00:00", "subject": "Another G.Wolfe book set in Urth milieu?", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Dear all,\n\nAm I hallucinating?\n\nOn a recent trip to the U.S. I could swear I either saw a flyer for, or a\nhard-back copy of, a new book by Gene Wolfe set in the Universe of the\nBook/Urth of the New Sun.\n\nAnyone know anything about this, or was it all just a wonderful dream!\n\nAndrew Stevens\nProgrammming Research Group\n11 Keble Road, Oxford, England\nOX1 3QD\n+44 0865 272563\nAndrew.Stevens at prg.oxford.ac.uk" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Reilly F. Hayes", "address": "rfh at das.ml.com" }, "date": "1993-09-15T14:22:18+00:00", "subject": "Re: Another G.Wolfe book set in Urth milieu?", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "as at comlab.ox.ac.uk (Andrew Stevens) writes:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On a recent trip to the U.S. I could swear I either saw a flyer for, or a\nhard-back copy of, a new book by Gene Wolfe set in the Universe of the\nBook/Urth of the New Sun. Anyone know anything about this, or was it all\njust a wonderful dream!" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Yes, you did see something. I thought that I saw the book at Worldcon, but\nI just checked LOCUS and the book is not due out until June 1994. It is to\nbe called _Calde_of_the_Long_Sun_. It will be published in hardcover by\nTor. Unfortunately, LOCUS' list of forthcoming books for the UK does not\nlist it.\n\nReilly Hayes" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Dani Zweig", "address": "dani at netcom.com" }, "date": "1993-09-16T02:21:09+00:00", "subject": "Re: Another G.Wolfe book set in Urth milieu?", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "as at comlab.ox.ac.uk (Andrew Stevens):" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On a recent trip to the U.S. I could swear I either saw a flyer for, or a\nhard-back copy of, a new book by Gene Wolfe set in the Universe of the\nBook/Urth of the New Sun." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "The first book in the new series, \"Nightside the Long Sun\", has been out\nfor a few months, and the second should be out some time this coming year.\nIt takes place on what appears to be a huge generation spaceship, and the\nonly evidence to date that it's in the same universe as The Book of the New\nSun is in the cover blurbs. NtLS does not have the same magic as TBotNS,\nbut it's very good nonetheless, and it could become better as the story\nprogresses.\n\n(Wolfe seems to be following the same pattern of exposing his protagonist\nto an increasingly large world. Just as \"Shadow of the Torturer\" only\nserves to get Severian out of the guild and then out of the city, while\nintroducing us to his world, \"Nightside the Long Sun\" serves to get the\nprotagonist (a priest of sorts) onto the streets and involved with the\nlocal underworld, while introducing us to his world.)\n\nDani Zweig" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Patrick Nielsen-Hayden", "address": "pnh at panix.com" }, "date": "1993-09-16T11:16:12+00:00", "subject": "Re: Another G.Wolfe book set in Urth milieu?", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "rfh at das.ml.com (Reilly F. Hayes) writes:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "as at comlab.ox.ac.uk (Andrew Stevens) writes:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "On a recent trip to the U.S. I could swear I either saw a flyer for, or a\nhard-back copy of, a new book by Gene Wolfe set in the Universe of the\nBook/Urth of the New Sun. Anyone know anything about this, or was it all\njust a wonderful dream!" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Yes, you did see something. I thought that I saw the book at Worldcon,\nbut I just checked LOCUS and the book is not due out until June 1994. It\nis to be called _Calde_of_the_Long_Sun_. It will be published in\nhardcover by Tor. Unfortunately, LOCUS' list of forthcoming books for the\nUK does not list it." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Ahem. CALDE OF THE LONG SUN is the _third_ volume of the new four-volume\nBOOK OF THE LONG SUN. The first volume, NIGHTSIDE THE LONG SUN, has been\nout in hardcover for several months and will appear in paperback this\nDecember. The second volume, LAKE OF THE LONG SUN, will appear in January\n1994. CALDE OF THE LONG SUN will appear in late 1994. All from Tor.\n\n(The British publisher is New English Library; the hardcover packages are\nidentical.)\n\nPatrick Nielsen Hayden\nsenior editor\nTor Books" } ] } ] }