{ "export": { "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/3738", "note": "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.", "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'" }, "archive": "urth", "thread": { "id": 3738, "subject": "Wraiths, Waifs and Wolves", "messages": 4, "voices": 3, "first": "2003-01-02T23:17:37+00:00", "last": "2003-01-03T19:21:29+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Nigel Price", "address": "nigel.a.price at virgin.net" }, "date": "2003-01-02T23:17:37+00:00", "subject": "(urth) RE: Wraiths, Waifs and Wolves", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Very much looking forward to the three upcoming Wolfe volumes which Dr Nick\nmentions. Does he or anyone else know which stories are going to be included\nin the \"Wraiths, Waifs and Wolves\" collection?\n\nI bought a copy of \"The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction 15\" today.\nThis is Gardner Dozois's pick of what he regards as the best 26 SF stories\nof 2001. No Wolfe stories are included in the anthology, but three of his\ntitles are given an \"honourable mention\" in an appendix listing the best\n\"other\" stories of 2001.\n\nThe three Wolfe stories mentioned are:\n\n\t\"In Glory Like Their Star\" (F&SF, October/November)\n\t\"Queen\" (Realms of Fantasy, December)\n\t\"Viewpoint\" (Redshift)\n\nObviously, I was wondering whether these stories would be included in the\nforthcoming \"W,W&W\" collection. I haven't read any of them. I remember the\nfirst being discussed on the list when it came out, but have no recollection\nof anyone's comments on the other two. Are they any good?\n\nNigel" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Roy C. Lackey", "address": "rclackey at stic.net" }, "date": "2003-01-03T06:14:37+00:00", "subject": "Re: (urth) RE: Wraiths, Waifs and Wolves", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Nigel asked:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Very much looking forward to the three upcoming Wolfe volumes which Dr Nick\nmentions. Does he or anyone else know which stories are going to be\nincluded\nin the \"Wraiths, Waifs and Wolves\" collection?" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "He posted the contents in September. Here:\n\n< http://urth.net/urth/archives/v0209/1771.txt.shtml >" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "\"In Glory Like Their Star\" (F&SF, October/November)\n\"Queen\" (Realms of Fantasy, December)\n\"Viewpoint\" (Redshift)\n\nObviously, I was wondering whether these stories would be included in the\nforthcoming \"W,W&W\" collection. I haven't read any of them. I remember the\nfirst being discussed on the list when it came out, but have no\nrecollection\nof anyone's comments on the other two. Are they any good?" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "\"Queen\" is in it. It's pretty short. It may be the simplest story I've ever\nread by Wolfe. That is, I felt I knew what it was about before I even\nfinished it. I don't think I would be giving away anything that isn't quite\nobvious, but here is some spoiler space.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIt's an overtly religious story about the Assumption of Mary.\n\n-Roy" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Nigel Price", "address": "nigel.a.price at virgin.net" }, "date": "2003-01-03T19:06:11+00:00", "subject": "Re: (urth) RE: Wraiths, Waifs and Wolves", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "In reply to my query on the contents of the forthcoming collection of GW" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "short stories, Roy wrote:\nHe posted the contents in September. Here:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "< http://urth.net/urth/archives/v0209/1771.txt.shtml >" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Whoops! I don't recall that at all. Thanks, Roy. I clearly haven't being\npaying proper attention.\n\nThere still seem to be plenty of uncollected Gene Wolfe short stories out\nthere. When are we going to see the publication of a uniform, multi-volume\nedition of \"The Complete Literary Works of Gene Wolfe\", I wonder? These\nthings come out after an author's death, so in that sense I certainly hope\nthat it won't be published for many years yet. On the other hand, it would\nbe a useful work to have. While I'm dreaming, a searchable electronic\nversion of the complete texts would be useful too!\n\n(The \"Complete Works\" should really be published as a proper, annotated,\n\"Variorum\" edition, of course. Perhaps some of the contributions to the Urth\nlist will eventually make their way into the apparatus criticus or\nmarginalia...)\n\nNigel" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Josh Geller", "address": "dclxvi at dclxvi.best.vwh.net" }, "date": "2003-01-03T19:21:29+00:00", "subject": "Re: (urth) RE: Wraiths, Waifs and Wolves", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Nigel Price wrote:\nThere still seem to be plenty of uncollected Gene Wolfe short stories out\nthere. When are we going to see the publication of a uniform, multi-volume\nedition of \"The Complete Literary Works of Gene Wolfe\", I wonder? These\nthings come out after an author's death, so in that sense I certainly hope\nthat it won't be published for many years yet." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "The 'Vance Integral Edition' is scheduled to come out in February.\n\nJack Vance is pretty old, but he's not dead yet.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n." } ] } ] }