# No. 5's visit to the library in `Fifth Head...' *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 01 Apr 1998* > 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. --- ### Dan Rabin *01 Apr 1998, 20:25* I thank Damien Broderick for pointing out the clues in the passage in `The Fifth Head of Cerberus' wherein the narrator visits the library and finds old science-fiction books. It is interesting that this passage differs between the original publication in _Orbit 10_ (Damon Knight, ed.) and the book edition. The original only mentions _Monday or Tuesday_ and the book on the assassination of Trotsky before ending the paragraph and beginning the next with `I never found any books of my father's'. I found this startling because I had read the book version first, and remembered the Vinge reference very distinctly. I wonder whether the additional books mentioned (_The Mile-Long Spaceship_ `by some German', and the volume of Vinge) were added by Wolfe to the book version, or edited out of the original by Knight (or at Knight's suggestion). Also, I note that `VVinge' is to `Wing' as `Wolfe' is to `Wolf', for what it's worthe. -- Dan Rabin ---