# 7 early stories *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 07 Mar 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. --- ### Michael Andre-Driussi *07 Mar 2002, 21:09* Adam Stephanides asked about some stories. I'll quote Joan Gordon by way of reply, adding a little: > Mountains Like Mice "Wolfe's first published science-fiction story, this is an initiation story showing his characteristic interest in myth." Hmmm. It has something of the feel of "`A Story' by John V. Marsch." It is set on a terraformed Mars, iirc. > Screen Test "A non-science-fiction mystery story based on false assumptions." It is a Chinese screen. Art object, not motion-picture initiation. > Volksweapon "A straight mystery story" A lake in the woods. Rape, murder, guns. And a Volkswagon, of course. > The Green Wall Said "Crossed communications and the value of humanity." Hmmm. A "Hollywood bowl" type dingus writes out a message from the stars, fragment by fragment. > It's Very Clean "Who is real and who is not, in the sexual arena." > Thou Spark of Blood "A spaceship murder with allusions to _Macbeth_." > King under the Mountain. "A personal relationship between a man and a computer." The computer is deep underground. =mantis= ---