{ "export": { "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/3904", "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": 3904, "subject": "Wildside Press big book of Wolfe essays?", "messages": 4, "voices": 3, "first": "2003-03-25T01:13:10+00:00", "last": "2003-03-27T00:25:16+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi", "address": "mantis at siriusfiction.com" }, "date": "2003-03-25T01:13:10+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Wildside Press big book of Wolfe essays?", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "About a month ago, our friend Nigel Price (a person who can find all sorts" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "of unfound things) wrote:\nDoes anyone on the list have details of the book of essays on Gene Wolfe\nwhich Wildside Press are planning to bring out? Details of the proposed\ncompanion volume on C J Cherryh can be found at\nhttp://enigma.rider.edu/~ecarmien/." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Nigel, I have no idea! Even after looking around, I still have no idea.\nWhere did you get the idea? Please tell more!\n\n=mantis=" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Nigel Price", "address": "nigel.aprice at virgin.net" }, "date": "2003-03-26T01:14:08+00:00", "subject": "RE: (urth) Wildside Press big book of Wolfe essays?", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "Nigel, I have no idea! Even after looking\naround, I still have no idea. Where did you\nget the idea? Please tell more!" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Hello Michael. Good to see \"Snake's Hands\" prominently featured on the\nWildside Press website.\n\nYou ask about the Wolfe volume I mentioned. Well, the story goes as follows.\n\nThe project was originally mentioned in the Wildside Press forum. I was keen\nto offer an article, so I entered a query in the forum, asking who was going\nto edit the book of essays on Wolfe. I received no reply, so I then wrote to\nJohn Betancourt, the owner of Wildside, and asked him. He wrote to tell me\nthat Darrell Schweitzer was going to edit the proposed collection, but that\npublication was still a couple of years away.\n\nI then wrote to Darrell Schweitzer, offering to write a Wolfe essay for him.\nHe wrote back to say that he wasn't sure that the Wolfe book was going to\nhappen or that he was going to edit it as he was currently in the middle of\ncompiling a book of essays on Neil Gaiman and it was proving difficult to\nget adequate and sufficient material.\n\nAfter a few more e-mails to and fro, which included offers from me to\nDarrell to write something on Gaiman...\n\n(...and which also included hurried appeals from me to Jonathan Laidlow, the\nGaiman expert, for guidance on what Gaiman to read - Jonathan sent me a\nSandman book last time I was in hospital, bless him - what a depressing book\nto read when you're waiting for surgery!...)\n\n...John Betancourt finally got onto Darrell Schweitzer and twisted his arm a\nbit. Darrell now tells me that yes, he is definitely doing an anthology of\nessays on Wolfe, and yes, Wildside will be printing it, but no, it won't be\nfor a while, because he's still working on the Gaiman project.\n\nSo: if I can get my story/stories finished for a certain member of this\nlist, and get my article on \"Rimrunners\" done for the Cherryh volume, I'll\nmaybe have a crack at a Gaiman piece and who knows, I might even get an\narticle on Wolfe finished at last. But, to end on a personal note, this has\nbeen a difficult couple of months. I have lost two close friends over the\npast six weeks, and having got those funerals out of the way, my father died\nthis weekend after a long and difficult illness. It was a relief and a\nrelease for him, but what with the intermittent and unpredictable tides of\ngrief and the sheer grind of funeral arrangements, I'm really not getting\nmuch work done at the moment.\n\nWe'll see how it goes.\n\nNigel" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Andy Robertson", "address": "andywrobertson at clara.co.uk" }, "date": "2003-03-26T07:44:46+00:00", "subject": "Re: (urth) Wildside Press big book of Wolfe essays?", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Very sorry to hear this, Nigel\n\n hartshorn\n\n----- Original Message -----\nFrom: \"Nigel Price\" \n. But, to end on a personal note, this has" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "been a difficult couple of months. I have lost two close friends over the\npast six weeks, and having got those funerals out of the way, my father\ndied\nthis weekend after a long and difficult illness. It was a relief and a\nrelease for him, but what with the intermittent and unpredictable tides of\ngrief and the sheer grind of funeral arrangements, I'm really not getting\nmuch work done at the moment." } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Nigel Price", "address": "nigel.aprice at virgin.net" }, "date": "2003-03-27T00:25:16+00:00", "subject": "RE: (urth) Wildside Press big book of Wolfe essays?", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "Very sorry to hear this, Nigel" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Thanks, hartshorn.\n\nI probably shouldn't have mentioned it on the list. That's what comes of\nwriting e-mails late at night, I guess.\n\nNigel" } ] } ] }