# [fictionmags] Wolfe And Alternate History *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 03 Feb 2002* > 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. --- ### Andy Robertson *03 Feb 2002, 08:03* And more ...... hartshorn ----- Original Message ----- From: gvgfsf at aol.com To: fictionmags at yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 1:06 AM Subject: [fictionmags] Wolfe And Alternate History From Ellen Datlow, in London: I can't post to fictionmags from my yahoo mail address so could you pass the info to the person who asked about any alternate histories by Gene Wolfe that we published "Copperhead" in SCI FICTION in 2001 and it's an alternate history. Thanks. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. --- ### Jerry Friedman *04 Feb 2002, 17:21 · follows Andy Robertson* > --- Andy Robertson wrote: > And more ...... > > hartshorn > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: gvgfsf at aol.com > To: fictionmags at yahoogroups.com > Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 1:06 AM > Subject: [fictionmags] Wolfe And Alternate History > > > From Ellen Datlow, in London: > > I can't post to fictionmags from my yahoo mail address > so could you pass the info to the person who asked > about any alternate histories by Gene Wolfe that we > published "Copperhead" in SCI FICTION in 2001 and it's > an alternate history. > > Thanks. Good gosh! Maybe this statement will help me understand the story, but how can you tell "Copperhead" is not near-future? Does this make "The Peace Spy" alternate history? There's plenty of alternate history, of a sort, in BotNS, and rather less in _Free Live Free_. Speaking of BotNS, has anyone discussed the possibility that the Severian in BotSS is not the one we know, but one from an "earlier" timeline? That would explain the discrepancies between the accounts of Merryn in New Sun and Short Sun. If either Severian or Silkhorn is simply deceiving us, why? (Not because Severian decided not to put Silkhorn in his book, it seems to me--he could have broken that oath, as he broke so many others, or he could have easily gotten around it.) ``` Jerry Friedman ``` ---