Parallels The Urth list — 3 messages, 2 voices, 21 Oct 2006 https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/4743 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. ============================================================================== Fred Kiesche — 21 Oct 2006, 09:28 Greetings: In re-reading the tetralogy after (mumble mumble) years, I was struck by something I did not notice when I first read them: The parallels with "The Dying Earth" by Jack Vance and the "Viriconium" tales fo M. John Harrison. Even odder, given that all three were published by Pocket in the Timescape line around the same time. And now all three are available as trade paperbacks! Fred Kiesche (FPK3) My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine. Everybody drinks water. (Mark Twain, "Notebook") Over 7,000 postings served! See The Eternal Golden Braid (http://theeternalgoldenbraid.blogspot.com/ ). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Idoru X — 21 Oct 2006, 09:33 in reply to Fred Kiesche > On 10/21/06, Fred Kiesche wrote: > > Greetings: > > In re-reading the tetralogy after (mumble mumble) > years, I was struck by something I did not notice when > I first read them: The parallels with "The Dying > Earth" by Jack Vance and the "Viriconium" tales fo M. > John Harrison. Wolfe has talked plenty of times about how excited he felt by The Dying Earth. The Tetralogy started as his attempt to write his own version of a Dying Earth. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fred Kiesche — 22 Oct 2006, 11:57 follows, by subject match Idoru X Greetings: "Wolfe has talked plenty of times about how excited he felt by The Dying Earth. The Tetralogy started as his attempt to write his own version of a Dying Earth." Are there any good essays and/or interviews in which Wolfe talks about the origins of the tetralogy? I have just re-read "Castle of the Otter" (and what a hoot 'n' a hollar that was in places), but I'd be interested in pursuing anything beyond that. Fred Kiesche (FPK3) My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine. Everybody drinks water. (Mark Twain, "Notebook") Over 7,000 postings served! See The Eternal Golden Braid (http://theeternalgoldenbraid.blogspot.com/ ). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------