Digest urth.v030.n157
The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 01 Aug 2001
https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/2748

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, by subject match 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

------------------------------------------------------------------------------