# Digest urth.v030.n130 *The Urth list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 21 Jun 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. --- ### Alice Turner *21 Jun 2001, 14:55* > In the meantime, I'll be dreaming of Aelfrice and all the likely > Wolfean > wonders soon to be found there. > > Robert Borski I hope this book is better than it sounds. It sounds like one more dreadful "medieval" s&s mess that will have to clamber out of a swamp of competition. The very name "Aelfrice" strikes a dauntingly trite note. -alga --- ### Kevin J. Maroney *21 Jun 2001, 15:08 · follows Alice Turner* > At 02:55 PM 6/21/01 -0400, Alga wrote: > I hope this book is better than it sounds. It sounds like one more > dreadful "medieval" s&s mess that will have to clamber out of a swamp of > competition. The very name "Aelfrice" strikes a dauntingly trite note. It's Old English for "elf-land". I don't know if that makes you feel better or worse about it.... ``` Wombat, a.k.a. Kevin Maroney kmaroney at ungames.com Kitchen Staff Supervisor, New York Review of Science Fiction http://www.nyrsf.com ``` --- ### new_sun *22 Jun 2001, 05:26 · follows Kevin J. Maroney* Wasn't this going to be a young-adult novel? Christopher CULVER ----Original Message----- > From: urth-errors at lists1.ba.best.com > To: urth at lists1.ba.best.com > Subj: Digest urth.v030.n130 > Reply To: urth at lists.best.com > Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 1:10 PM > > > -------------- BEGIN urth.v030.n130 -------------- > > 001 - "Robert Borski" > URTH Digest -- for discussion of Gene Wolfe's New Sun and other works > > > --------------- MESSAGE urth.v030.n130.1 --------------- > > From: "Robert Borski" > Subject: Wizard Knight: Progress Report > Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 12:07:55 -0500 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Good news, my brother and sister Lupophiles. > > GW has finished the first draft of his next novel, The WIZARD KNIGHT, and is > now about 130 pages into the second draft. Because of its considerable > length, he's anticipating (or at least hoping) it'll be published in two > massive volumes. > > Given the narrative complexity of SHORT SUN, I asked about WK's > point-of-view, and Wolfe responded: "The narrator recounts his experiences > in first, but switches to third to reconstruct events he did not witness." > > So keep your fingers crossed, and who knows, depending on how long it takes > GW to finish drafts two and three, and then turnaround time on the > publishing end, perhaps we'll be seeing the new work sometime late next year > or early the following. > > In the meantime, I'll be dreaming of Aelfrice and all the likely Wolfean > wonders soon to be found there. > > Robert Borski ---