# new academic piece on Wolfe *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 16 Sep 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. --- ### Jonathan Laidlow *16 Sep 1999, 16:09* Just noticed that the Summer 1999 issue of Extrapolation (40:2) contains a piece by John Gerlach entitled 'The rhetoric of an impossible object: gods, chems, and science fantasy in Gene Wolfe's 'Book of the Long Sun'. Not having easy access to this journal I downloaded it from the website of www.northernlight.com. This is a service that provides pay-per-view access to news, business, and scholarly articles. I downloaded the piece for 2.95 dollars. Note that it looked as though Mantis' Posthistory 101 piece is also available for paid download, for those who haven't got access to 'Extrapolation'. I must admit to being very busy so I haven't read it yet. I noted that the footnotes credit our little community. Are you out there John Gerlach? Will be adding this piece to the Ultan's Library bibliography as soon as possible. Jonathan Visit Ultan's Library - A Gene Wolfe web resource http://members.tripod.co.uk/laidlow/index.htm Jonathan Laidlow University of Birmingham, UK ---