# New to the list *The Urth list — 6 messages, 6 voices, 04 Apr 2006* > 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. --- ### Anjruu at aol.com *04 Apr 2006, 00:55* Hi. I just joined the list and I was saying hello. I've read Book of the New Sun and the first half of Book of the Long Sun and was wondering what the spoiler policy was. -Anjruu --- ### Adam Thornton *04 Apr 2006, 02:10 · in reply to Anjruu at aol.com* > On Apr 3, 2006, at 7:55 PM, Anjruu at aol.com wrote: > Hi. I just joined the list and I was saying hello. I've read Book > of the New Sun and the first half of Book of the Long Sun and was > wondering what the spoiler policy was. "Beware," I think. Most of the people here have read everything Gene Wolfe ever wrote, including grocery lists filched from his garbage can (Dude! Remember March 12, 1992, when he wanted Reddi-Whip? Those were the days!) , and are not going to be circumspect about spoiling the books. Adam --- ### Matt DeLuca *04 Apr 2006, 02:21 · in reply to Adam Thornton* Don't worry about spoilers on anything really. However if there is something new that comes out kindly let us know if u are going to be spoiling anything > On 4/3/06, Adam Thornton wrote: > > > On Apr 3, 2006, at 7:55 PM, Anjruu at aol.com wrote: >> Hi. I just joined the list and I was saying hello. I've read Book >> of the New Sun and the first half of Book of the Long Sun and was >> wondering what the spoiler policy was. > "Beware," I think. > > Most of the people here have read everything Gene Wolfe ever wrote, > including grocery lists filched from his garbage can (Dude! Remember > March 12, 1992, when he wanted Reddi-Whip? Those were the days!) , > and are not going to be circumspect about spoiling the books. > > Adam > _______________________________________________ --- ### mournings glory *04 Apr 2006, 03:29 · in reply to Anjruu at aol.com* Welcome aboard, Anjruu. Feel free to post away, but please be aware that many of your questions about New/Long Sun may have already been addressed, so if you can, kindly check the archives first -- people who have new or interesting things to say about these works will always be welcomed here, I'd venture to say, but nOObs who haven't done their homework or want to cut to the front of the line are only dissing those of us who've paid their dues in more legitimate fashion. Also try not to be too insulted or hurt if no one agrees with you; despite frequently leveled charges of heresy by various individuals (including me), there is no orthodoxy here. msg > From: Anjruu at aol.com > Reply-To: The Urth Mailing List > To: urth at urth.net > Subject: (urth) New to the list > Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 20:55:45 EDT > > Hi. I just joined the list and I was saying hello. I've read Book of the > New > Sun and the first half of Book of the Long Sun and was wondering what the > spoiler policy was. > > -Anjruu > _______________________________________________ --- ### Dan'l Danehy-Oakes *04 Apr 2006, 18:11 · in reply to Anjruu at aol.com* > Hi. I just joined the list and I was saying hello. Welcome aboard. > I've read Book of the New > Sun and the first half of Book of the Long Sun and was wondering what the > spoiler policy was. Oh, usually abacination for a first offense. Do you mean, "Do I need to be careful about posting spoily stuff?" or "Do I need to worry that posts here will spoil things I haven't read?" I'll assume both. As Adam says, many -- I won't say "most" -- of the participants on this list have read, if not Gene Wolfe's laundry lists, at least a huge proportion of what's available by him, including hard-to-find stuff like his first, long out-of-print-and-not-likely-to-be-reprinted-while-he's-alive-to-say-anything- about-it novel, OPERATION ARES. So at times this list takes on the feeling of a graduate seminar in Lupine fiction. Yet, we have always had a share of "beginners," "noobs," or just plain cool people who have just latched onto the Wonder That Is Gene Wolfe's Fiction. (No personal heresy _here_, nossir.) Yes, you can search the archives, but they're spotty, and the search function is not the best. My experience is that folks here are actually pretty patient with new members asking questions whose answers have been discussed to death -- whether settled by general consensus, or unsettled and likely to remain so for a very long time. There is a kind of "core" set of theories that constitutes a sort of orthodox Wolfeology, and a whole lot of speculations at the edges of those theories, and then a bunch of theories that contradict orthodox Wolfeology but have passionate adherents. Wait till you read "Short Sun" and then ask about the trees. You'll see. You certainly don't have to read and commit to memory every precious word of Gene Wolfe's fiction to enjoy a stay on the Urth list. (I certainly haven't hunted down all the obscure short stories, or even some of the harder-to-find chapbooks and collections.) ***** You know, folks, I think it's time this little list developed a kind of Gene Wolfe FAQ. --Dan'l ``` I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him. -- St Teresa of Avila http://www.livejournal.com/users/sturgeonslawyer ``` --- ### tom at bitterman.net *04 Apr 2006, 19:08 · in reply to Dan'l Danehy-Oakes* Quoting Dan'l Danehy-Oakes : >> I've read Book of the New >> Sun and the first half of Book of the Long Sun and was wondering what the >> spoiler policy was. > Oh, usually abacination for a first offense. oh! oh! can we use the brank? enamel ---