# Review of 999 *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 27 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. --- ### Roy C. Lackey *27 Sep 1999, 21:17* From a local reviewer--Michael Barrett--of the anthology _999_ in the _San Antonio Express-News_, Sunday, September 26, 1999: >> "The Tree Is My Hat" by Gene Wolfe, better known as a science fiction >> writer -- A vivid Polynesian island tale about a man with a debilitating >> disease and the ghost or dwarf or something-or-other who befriends him as a >> blood brother. Full of strange, unexplained details that one feels must mean >> more than Wolfe is telling us.<< Yeah, sounds like Wolfe. Roy ---