# Breaking News: Mantis Visits Dying Sun *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 15 Jan 2001* > 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. --- ### akt *15 Jan 2001, 07:57* Those of you who have access to The New York Review of Science Fiction should by all means check out the new issue. Michael Andre-Driussi (our mantis) has the cover story, a perfectly fascinating essay on how, by use of language, Jack Vance, Gene Wolfe and Damien Broderick (also ours; hi Damien) evoke the fin du monde as the sun gutters out. It's well-researched, is terrific on parallel and influence, and, as we could only expect, lively as hell. -alga --- ### matthew.malthouse *15 Jan 2001, 14:39 · follows akt* > Those of you who have access to The New York Review of Science Fiction > should by all means check out the new issue. Michael Andre-Driussi (our > mantis) has the cover story, a perfectly fascinating essay on how, by > use of language, Jack Vance, Gene Wolfe and Damien Broderick (also ours; > hi Damien) evoke the fin du monde as the sun gutters out. It's > well-researched, is terrific on parallel and influence, and, as we could > only expect, lively as hell. no mention of C J Cherryh's "Sunfall"? M ---