PEACE -- 1st Novel
The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 09 May 2002
https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/3244

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 <millman at heimdallr.dyndns.org>
> Reply-To: urth at urth.net
> To: <urth at urth.net>
> 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, by subject match 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

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