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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": "urth", "thread": { "id": 1302, "subject": "Compleate Wolfe", "messages": 3, "voices": 3, "first": "1998-12-17T02:12:00+00:00", "last": "1998-12-17T14:07:14+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "m.driussi", "address": "m.driussi at genie.com" }, "date": "1998-12-17T02:12:00+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Compleate Wolfe", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Rostrum,\n\nYou asked about the most efficient way to get all of Wolfe's short\nstories and novellas. I'm not sure I understand, exactly--are you\nworried about overlapping stories in different collections? There\nisn't that much overlap (so far, at least), I don't think.\n\nThe things that have not been collected at all, obviously you have to\nfind the magazines they appeared in.\n\nThe things that have not appeared in print, like \"Talk of Mandrakes,\"\nclearly you have to find a manuscript somewhere! (Seriously,\nfolks, I myself asked about this \"phantom title\" after I saw it\nlisted in URTH-MAN EXTRAORDINARY and Gene Wolfe tells me it is real,\nand he sold it, and the magazine folded before they published it.\nBut as we all know, he might be bluffing! I, for one, deerly hope to\nsee this storied story in the next collection of tall tails.)\n\nThe things that have appeared only in Cheap Street editions, well.\nYou either buy it now or continue to have patience and pray that some\nwhite knight like Bryan Cholfin comes along to provide you with a\nless expensive copy.\n\nOtherwise, the most efficient way is probably a combination of MX\nBookfinder and Amazon.com!\n\n(Or did I miss the point entirely?)\n\n=mantis=" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Michael Straight", "address": "straight at email.unc.edu" }, "date": "1998-12-17T09:54:17+00:00", "subject": "Re: (urth) Compleate Wolfe", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Thu, 17 Dec 1998 m.driussi at genie.com wrote:\nYou asked about the most efficient way to get all of Wolfe's short\nstories and novellas. I'm not sure I understand, exactly--are you\nworried about overlapping stories in different collections? There\nisn't that much overlap (so far, at least), I don't think." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Oh. I don't own any of the Wolfe story collections yet, and I'd\nremembered that Castle of Days, for instance, had all the stories from\nWolfe's Book of Days, so I imagined that there might be other similar\noverlaps. \n\nThis site lists the following collections of Wolfe's short works:\n\nhttp://www.sfsite.com/isfdb-bin/exact_author.cgi?Gene_Wolfe\n\nThe Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories (1980)\nGene Wolfe's Book of Days (1981)\nPlan[e]t Engineering (1984) \nFor Rosemary (1988) - Poetry collection.\nStoreys from the Old Hotel (1988)\nEndangered Species (1989) \nCastle of Days (1992)\nYoung Wolfe (1992) \nBibliomen (1995)\n\nAre all these pretty much non-overlapping except for the Book of Days?\nAre there any other collections that have more than one Wolfe story, or\nwould I have to basically hunt them down one at a time from here?\n\n-Rostrum" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Kevin J. Maroney", "address": "kmaroney at crossover.com" }, "date": "1998-12-17T14:07:14+00:00", "subject": "Re: (urth) Compleate Wolfe", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "At 02:12 AM 12/17/98 GMT, Mantis wrote:\nThe things that have appeared only in Cheap Street editions, well.\nYou either buy it now or continue to have patience and pray that some\nwhite knight like Bryan Cholfin comes along to provide you with a\nless expensive copy." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I believe that most of the Cheap Street material has been made available in\nless expensive forms: \n\n_Bibliomen_ is available in a new edition from Broken Mirrors Press; \n\n_Empires of Foliage and Flowers_ was reprinted in _Crank_ #1 and again in\nthe recent _The Best of Crank!_, from Tor; \n\nOf the pamphlets, two (\"At the Point of Capricorn\" and \"The Boy Who Hooked\nthe Sun\") were reprinted in the Gene Wolfe issue of _Weird Tales_, Spring\n1988. \n\nI hadn't realized how many Cheap Street Wolfes there were!\n\n\"The Arimaspian Legacy\" and \"Slow Children at Play\", novellas, have not\nbeen reprinted, nor has \"The Old Woman Whose Rolling Pin is the Sun\"\naccording to the sources I consulted.\n\n\n\n\nWombat, a.k.a. Kevin Maroney kmaroney at crossover.com\nKitchen Staff Supervisor, New York Review of Science Fiction\nhttp://ebbs.english.vt.edu/olp/nyrsf/nyrsf.html" } ] } ] }