{ "export": { "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/3972", "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": 3972, "subject": "Soldier of Sidon", "messages": 6, "voices": 4, "first": "2003-04-26T07:23:18+00:00", "last": "2003-05-09T13:13:22+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Nicholas Gevers", "address": "vermoulian at yahoo.com" }, "date": "2003-04-26T07:23:18+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Soldier of Sidon", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Last night, confirmation from GW that he is at work on\nSOLDIER OF SIDON, set mainly in Egypt when it was a\nprovince of the Persian Empire. He comments that his\nresearch shows the ancient Egyptians in a warm,\nsympathetic light. A fourth volume may well follow.\n\n--Nick Gevers." } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Nicholas Gevers", "address": "vermoulian at yahoo.com" }, "date": "2003-04-27T20:49:44+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Soldier of Sidon", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Concerning the publication date of SOLDIER OF SIDON:\ndon't expect it before 2005. THE KNIGHT and THE WIZARD\ncome first...\n\n--Nick Gevers." } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "silk tree", "address": "albizia at feafaroth.org" }, "date": "2003-04-27T21:02:13+00:00", "subject": "Re: (urth) Soldier of Sidon", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Saturday, April 26, 2003, at 02:23 AM, Nicholas Gevers wrote:\nLast night, confirmation from GW that he is at work on\nSOLDIER OF SIDON, set mainly in Egypt when it was a\nprovince of the Persian Empire. He comments that his\nresearch shows the ancient Egyptians in a warm,\nsympathetic light. A fourth volume may well follow." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "hi, is this, in fact, a long awaited story about Latro? the title\nseems to suggest this but if I let myself hope and it turns out\nit isn't the disappointment would be too much.\n\nmimosa" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Nicholas Gevers", "address": "vermoulian at yahoo.com" }, "date": "2003-04-27T21:10:47+00:00", "subject": "Re: (urth) Soldier of Sidon", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Mimosa, hi. SOLDIER OF SIDON is the third Latro novel,\nfollowing directly on from SOLDIER OF THE MIST and\nSOLDIER OF ARETE.\n\n--Nick Gevers. \n\n--- silk tree wrote: > " }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Saturday, April 26, 2003, at 02:23 AM, Nicholas\nGevers wrote:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "Last night, confirmation from GW that he is at\nwork on\nSOLDIER OF SIDON, set mainly in Egypt when it was\na\nprovince of the Persian Empire. He comments that\nhis\nresearch shows the ancient Egyptians in a warm,\nsympathetic light. A fourth volume may well\nfollow." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "hi, is this, in fact, a long awaited story about\nLatro? the title\nseems to suggest this but if I let myself hope and\nit turns out\nit isn't the disappointment would be too much.\n\nmimosa" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "James Jordan", "address": "jbjordan4 at cox.net" }, "date": "2003-05-08T20:41:32+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Soldier of Sidon", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "From: \"The Wynns\" \nJim,\nCould I impose on you one more time to post for me? Hopefully, I will soon\nhave an Internet connection that will allow me to send email from my Urth\naddress, but with the recent speculation on \"Soldier of Sidon\" I thought\nthis would be of interest to the group.\n\n--- James\n------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nNutria wrote:\n...someone said that [Soldier of Sidon] will explore Egypt, and I guess\nwe'll all have to brush up on the Egyptian pantheon next!\n\nCrush responds:\nWolfe discussed the \"Soldier of Sidon\" during the recent online chat. He\nsaid it was still \"in the early stages\" and he was not at the time certain\nhe would ever finish it. Incidentally, he also revealed that he will\n(probably) not \"wrap up\" the story with the next novel -- if Wolfe could\nlive to be 100 with the same vigor he had in his fifties and sixties, I\nthink we could get Latro home.\n\nBefore \"Soldier of Sidon\", he will release Knight, then Wizard, then a\ncollection of short stories.\n\nHere is the text of the online chat:\nhttp://urth.net/urth/archives/v0304/3111.txt.shtml" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Michael Straight", "address": "straight at email.unc.edu" }, "date": "2003-05-09T13:13:22+00:00", "subject": "Re: (urth) Soldier of Sidon", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Sat, 26 Apr 2003, [iso-8859-1] Nicholas Gevers wrote:\nHe comments that his\nresearch shows the ancient Egyptians in a warm,\nsympathetic light." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "...at least compared with the ancient Spartans.\n\n\t-- Rostrum" } ] } ] }