# Just picked up *The Urth list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 08 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. --- ### OOC 1992 *08 Apr 2006, 19:33* Just picked up the Book of the New Sun. Cannot put it down, wonderful reading. I have heard of this book for some time. When does it explain the how the planet went from Earth to Urth- a history of the process as it were? OOC ``` On my virtual porch here in New Orleans at: http://sanctumsporch.blogspot.com/ ``` --- ### Dan'l Danehy-Oakes *08 Apr 2006, 21:00 · in reply to OOC 1992* > On 4/8/06, OOC 1992 wrote: > Just picked up the Book of the New Sun. Cannot put it down, wonderful > reading. I have heard of this book for some time. When does it explain the > how the planet went from Earth to Urth- a history of the process as it were? It doesn't. In some external comments, Wolfe has stated that there is no real process: that this is the "do-nothing" future of Earth where we neither really solve any of our big problems nor quite ever succumb to them. This is (like so many Lupine extratextual statements) a bit evasive, as it does not explain a great deal... --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 ``` --- ### Jeff Wilson *10 Apr 2006, 01:32 · in reply to OOC 1992* > OOC 1992 wrote: > Just picked up the Book of the New Sun. Cannot put it down, wonderful > reading. I have heard of this book for some time. When does it explain > the how the planet went from Earth to Urth- a history of the process as > it were? Some of that is picked up as you go along, and some is spelled out in the afterword of SHADOW. ``` Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com < http://www.io.com/~jwilson > ``` ---