# Wolfe knows he's pushing it. *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 11 Apr 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 Straight *11 Apr 2002, 14:01* I was thinking about Wolfe's apparent modesty with regard to whether or not his next novel will be published. Wolfe is a SF fan, he knows what's popular, and he knows that his books are off-putting to many people. I think he may be genuinely not sure whether he's pushing things too far, being too obscure. In some ways he's writing for himself, trying to make a book he thinks is fun and beautiful, and is pleasantly suprised that there are still some other people who like that sort of thing. But perhaps he still thinks: they liked Oreb, but will Tick be way too much? They managed to decipher Wizer's Yodaspeak, but will they put up with Pig's accent? Can I really get away with saying this little about Auk and Chenille, or is Hartwell going to finally fling a manuscript back at me in frustration? -Rostrum ---