# Ancients of Days *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 17 Aug 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. --- ### Kieran Cleary *17 Aug 1999, 14:52* Just finished reading Paul J. McAuley's second Confluence book, Ancients of Days, and contrary to the faint praise of a previous posting of mine, I think that the series is living up to the expectations created (for me) by the related short story Recording Angel in Greg Bear's New Legends (to which I am also indebted for introducing me to Greg Egan). Anyway, I'd be interested to hear coments from other Urthlings about the series. Vizcacha, regarding the related-authors list from Amazon, >> "Customers who bought titles by Gene Wolfe also bought titles by these >> authors: Frederick Forsyth John Le Carre Daniel Silva Joseph Kanon William Safire"<< I recently saw the following on Amazon (after another despairing, craven visit to the "On Blue's Waters" section): "Customers who bought titles by Gene Wolfe also bought titles by these authors: Dan Simmons Michael Swanwick Patricia A. McKillip Alfred Bester Theodore Sturgeon " which would seem to be *slightly* more on the mark. Kieran C. North West Labs Stephen St. Court Sligo Republic of Ireland Tel. +353 71 69441 Fax. +353 71 69451 email: kierannwn at tinet.ie ---