# tBotNS ref *The Urth list — 4 messages, 3 voices, 02 Apr 2005* > 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. --- ### maru *02 Apr 2005, 16:58* I realize none of you probably care, but seeing a reference to The Book of The New Sun in a relatively mainstream media is so rare I feel compelled to pass it on. From www.pennyarcade.com: > I cobbled together what I /expected/ to be a cache of terrible science > fiction I could detest beneath an umbrella, and instead it proved so > excellent I've nearly exhausted my store. The Eyre Affair, apparently > a part of some larger series, is sci-fi of such a constrained genre > that I wasn't even aware it existed: romantic, /literary/ sci-fi, for > people who like stories about time travel, alternate universes, and > classic literature where the protagonist gets married at the end. > Ridiculous. Endearing. Like an exorbitant designer truffle too rich to > eat in plain view. > > Also! There is an old series - both of these books are pretty old, > actually - by an author named Gene Wolfe called "The Book of The New > Sun." I believe it was originally four books, but they've been > compiled into two > > volumes > > - you may click those without fear, they are not "make me rich" links. > I saw the cover, the one with the stern-looking scary sword guy, and > declared aloud, "Yes! This is /sure/ to be overwrought!" but found > nothing of the sort. It's science fantasy the equal of which I've > never read. I've also got Orson Scott Card's Seventh Son, a kind of > early American fantasy as I understand it, and I tremble in the hope > that I'll be three for three on this book thing. ~Maru The Pope is dead! Long reign the Pope! --- ### Seth Lombardi *02 Apr 2005, 17:42 · in reply to maru* Maru: I'm a big penny-arcade fan and would have missed this otherwise. You do, however, need to put a hyphen in www.penny-arcade.com . And also that link will be obsolete as of Monday, in which case people will have to go to the old news post for that comic. For those who don't know, Penny Arcade is a long-running webcomic strip obstensibly about video games but also about just about anything smart people who play video games might find amusing, and seeing as how the average age of gamers is 29, that's quite a lot these days. Tycho is the writer of the comic - and plays the part both in fantasy and reality as the ridiculously erudite and cerbral PC gamer, as contrasted against the artist console-gamer. I'd kind of assumed that he'd be a Wolfe fan, but it's good to know he finaly got around to finding him. seth ***************************** Seth Lombardi sethlombardi at hotmail.com http://sethlombardi.blogspot.com/ AIM: melombardi "Two faces are alike; neither is funny by itself, but side by side their likeness makes us laugh" -Pascal --- ### maru *02 Apr 2005, 17:46 · in reply to Seth Lombardi* > Seth Lombardi wrote: > Maru: I'm a big penny-arcade fan and would have missed this otherwise. > You do, however, need to put a hyphen in www.penny-arcade.com . And > also that link will be obsolete as of Monday, in which case people > will have to go to the old news post for that comic. D'oh! /me is very ashamed, as I think the unhyphenated link leads to a porn site. Well, I included the relevant quote, so even when the link is obsoleted, people could still know what was said, with context as well. > For those who don't know, Penny Arcade is a long-running webcomic > strip obstensibly about video games but also about just about anything > smart people who play video games might find amusing, and seeing as > how the average age of gamers is 29, that's quite a lot these days. > Tycho is the writer of the comic - and plays the part both in fantasy > and reality as the ridiculously erudite and cerbral PC gamer, as > contrasted against the artist console-gamer. I'd kind of assumed that > he'd be a Wolfe fan, but it's good to know he finaly got around to > finding him. He is also a Frank Herbert fan as well, so I feel a sort of kinship learning that he likes Wolfe too. :) > seth > ***************************** > Seth Lombardi > sethlombardi at hotmail.com > http://sethlombardi.blogspot.com/ > AIM: melombardi > "Two faces are alike; neither is funny by itself, but side by side > their likeness makes us laugh" -Pascal ~Maru --- ### Samuel L. *10 Apr 2005, 17:25 · in reply to maru* I care, as I'm a fan of Penny Arcade. I'm sad I missed that post, however. Does anyone have other references to The Book of the New Sun? > On Apr 2, 2005 7:58 PM, maru wrote: > > I realize none of you probably care, but seeing a reference to > The Book of The New Sun in a relatively mainstream media is so rare > I feel compelled to pass it on. > > From www.pennyarcade.com : >> I cobbled together what I /expected/ to be a cache of terrible science >> fiction I could detest beneath an umbrella, and instead it proved so >> excellent I've nearly exhausted my store. The Eyre Affair, apparently >> a part of some larger series, is sci-fi of such a constrained genre >> that I wasn't even aware it existed: romantic, /literary/ sci-fi, for >> people who like stories about time travel, alternate universes, and >> classic literature where the protagonist gets married at the end. >> Ridiculous. Endearing. Like an exorbitant designer truffle too rich to >> eat in plain view. >> >> Also! There is an old series - both of these books are pretty old, >> actually - by an author named Gene Wolfe called "The Book of The New >> Sun." I believe it was originally four books, but they've been >> compiled into two >> < >> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312890176/qid12374369/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/102-9811043-1345707?v=glance&s=books&nP7846 >> >> volumes >> < >> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312890184/qid12374369/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i2_xgl14/102-9811043-1345707?v=glance&s=books&nP7846 >> >> - you may click those without fear, they are not "make me rich" links. >> I saw the cover, the one with the stern-looking scary sword guy, and >> declared aloud, "Yes! This is /sure/ to be overwrought!" but found >> nothing of the sort. It's science fantasy the equal of which I've >> never read. I've also got Orson Scott Card's Seventh Son, a kind of >> early American fantasy as I understand it, and I tremble in the hope >> that I'll be three for three on this book thing. > ~Maru > > The Pope is dead! Long reign the Pope! > _______________________________________________ ---