# sneak preview *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 16 Mar 1999* > 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. --- ### m.driussi *16 Mar 1999, 23:49* "Pocketsful of Diamonds" (a story?) STRANGE TRAVELERS (the next collection) Gene Wolfe is writing "a medieval fantasy [length?] somewhat along the lines of THE DEVIL IN A FOREST" =mantis= --- ### Kevin J. Maroney *16 Mar 1999, 20:01 · follows m.driussi* > At 11:49 PM 3/16/99 GMT, you wrote: > "Pocketsful of Diamonds" (a story?) > STRANGE TRAVELERS (the next collection) > Gene Wolfe is writing "a medieval fantasy [length?] somewhat along > the lines of THE DEVIL IN A FOREST" Context? Source? Thanks. I am not telling stories out of school to say that Hartwell is very enthusiastic about putting together a new collection of Wolfe stories--it's been over a decade since _Endangered Species_ & _Storeys from the Old Hotel_, and Wolfe has been producing a lot of material of shorter lengths in that time. Wombat, a.k.a. Kevin Maroney kmaroney at crossover.com Kitchen Staff Supervisor, New York Review of Science Fiction http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/olp/nyrsf/nyrsf.html ---