# Digest urth.v030.n157 *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 01 Aug 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. --- ### Richard Horton *01 Aug 2001, 22:46* > On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 08:30:01 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: > Between the time when Delany planned the diptych and wrote Stars... and it was > published then getting on with the second the AIDS issue hit and Delany said > that his world was so changed by it that he could no longer write the second - > poor memory might not serve but I think it was to be entitled "The Slplendour of > Cities and their Dying" or something bery similar. _The Splendor and Misery of Bodies, of Cities_ > Since there has be romour that he started working on it again, but only romour: > I've heard nothing that could taken as reputable news. I have heard that rumour as well -- from sufficiently reputable sources that I believe it quite possibly true, but couched in such terms that excessive optimism would be unwise. ``` Rich Horton | Stable Email: mailto://richard.horton at sff.net Home Page: http://www.sff.net/people/richard.horton Also visit SF Site (http://www.sfsite.com) and Tangent Online (http://www.tangentonline.com) ``` --- ### Michael Straight *02 Aug 2001, 08:34 · follows Richard Horton* > On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Richard Horton wrote: > _The Splendor and Misery of Bodies, of Cities_ Wow. I've never read Delaney, but that title alone makes me want to go out and give him a try. -Rostrum ---