# For Mantis on Vance - was RE: (urth) OT: further possible example s of story suites *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 20 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. --- ### Andy Robertson *20 May 2002, 16:57* ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" > To: > > So for the more dedicated Vanceans on the list, I suppose > the obvious question would be whether I, as a rather casual > reader, am missing anything here? This book is the one most > often cited when recommending Vance to a Wolfe fan; other > than the gross-scale influence on New Sun, the fundamental > idea (which, actually, wasn't entirely new here either) of > this incredibly ancient Earth, is there something deeper? > > --Blattid Of course not: but the idea was a hell of a lot more novel and powerful then than it is now. I think there is also a cross-influence from Clark Ashton Smith, whose Zothique stories set in a far future Southern continent were perhaps the first mass pulp exploitation of this idea, and were an influence on both writers. ---