# PEACE -- 1st Novel *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 09 May 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. --- ### Darryl Swett *09 May 2002, 18:10* > From: Mark Millman > Reply-To: urth at urth.net > To: > Subject: Re: (urth) Operation Ares: any copies still around? and PEACE > cover art > Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 12:42:08 -0400 (EDT) > > Speaking of errors, there's quite a one on the rear > jacket flap of the 1975 Harper & Row hardcover edition > of _Peace_: it says that _Peace_ is Wolfe's first > novel. I have read that blurb in several places, and I assumed it to be true. It is not, then? -Darryl --- ### Mark Millman *09 May 2002, 18:33 · follows Darryl Swett* Darryl, No, it's not true. _Operation ARES_, for which Christopher Culver is looking (it's because of his message that we're discussing this), is Wolfe's first published novel; Berkley did so in 1970, releasing it as a paperback original. _Peace_ is from 1975. _The Fifth Head of Cer- berus_ is older as well, since it was published by Scribner's in 1972, though not everyone may wish to consider it a novel. What I don't know, of course, is whether Mr. Wolfe started _Peace_ first, and then left it in a drawer for several years before taking it up once again. Certainly the book we have is much more accomplished than _Operation ARES_, and clearly the product of a more mature writer --if what I've suggested above is the case, there must have been very extensive rewriting. Mark Millman (Nacre) >> On Thu, 9 May 2002, Darryl Swett wrote: >> [On Thursday 9 May 2002 >> at 12:42:08 I'd written:] >> >> Speaking of errors, there's >> quite a one on the rear >> jacket flap of the 1975 >> Harper & Row hardcover edi- >> tion of _Peace_: it says >> that _Peace_ is Wolfe's >> first novel. > I have read that blurb in several > places, and I assumed it to be true. > It is not, then? > > -Darryl ---