{ "export": { "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/4874", "note": "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.", "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'" }, "archive": "urth", "thread": { "id": 4874, "subject": "Dark Alchemy", "messages": 4, "voices": 3, "first": "2007-07-04T11:25:06+00:00", "last": "2007-07-04T18:10:32+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Nigel Price", "address": "nigelprice at onetel.net" }, "date": "2007-07-04T11:25:06+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Dark Alchemy", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "There was a review by Lisa Tuttle of a new children's fantasy anthology\ncalled \"Dark Alchemy\" in the Summer Books section of Saturday's Times (The\nTimes, 30 June 2007, Books, p9). The book is edited by Jack Dann and Gardner\nDozois and includes a new story by Gene Wolfe.\n\nDoes anyone know any further details about the Wolfe story or the anthology\nin general?\n\nThere's an Amazon UK page about \"Dark Alchemy\" here\nhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Dark-Alchemy-Magical-Masters-Fantasy/dp/0747589550/r\nef=sr_1_1/202-0018527-4487019?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1183546692&sr=8-1 but it\ndoesn't give many specific details about the contents.\n\nNigel" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Nigel Price", "address": "nigelprice at onetel.net" }, "date": "2007-07-04T16:09:49+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Dark Alchemy", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "(Apologies if this ends up appearing twice. The list was offline the first\ntime I tried to send it.)\n\nThere was a review by Lisa Tuttle of a new children's fantasy anthology\ncalled \"Dark Alchemy\" in the Summer Books section of Saturday's Times (The\nTimes, 30 June 2007, Books, p9). The book is edited by Jack Dann and Gardner\nDozois and includes a new story by Gene Wolfe.\n\nDoes anyone know any further details about the Wolfe story or the anthology\nin general?\n\nThere's an Amazon UK page about \"Dark Alchemy\" here\nhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Dark-Alchemy-Magical-Masters-Fantasy/dp/0747589550/r\nef=sr_1_1/202-0018527-4487019?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1183546692&sr=8-1 but it\ndoesn't give many specific details about the contents.\n\nNigel" } ] }, { "message_id": "<468BDA0C.1020304@colby.edu>", "from": { "name": "Fernando Q. Gouvêa", "address": "fqgouvea at colby.edu" }, "date": "2007-07-04T17:34:04+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Dark Alchemy", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Nigel Price wrote:\nThere was a review by Lisa Tuttle of a new children's fantasy anthology\ncalled \"Dark Alchemy\" in the Summer Books section of Saturday's Times (The\nTimes, 30 June 2007, Books, p9). The book is edited by Jack Dann and Gardner\nDozois and includes a new story by Gene Wolfe." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "This seems to be the British edition of a book called \"Wizards\" in the \nUS. The Wolfe story is another take on the Arthurian legends, focusing \non Merlin this time.\n\nThe book seems to be aimed at the \"young adult\" market. It contains a \nlot of \"mother was right after all\" and \"so then I became the king\" stories.\n\nFernando" }, { "kind": "sig", "depth": 0, "text": "=============================================================\nFernando Q. Gouvea\nCarter Professor of Mathematics\nColby College Editor, FOCUS\n5836 Mayflower Hill Editor, MAA Reviews\nWaterville, ME 04901 http://mathdl.maa.org\nhttp://www.colby.edu/~fqgouvea\n\nIt's not enough to be Hungarian; you must have talent too.\n -- Alexander Korda" } ] }, { "message_id": "<1183572632.840.1198514009@webmail.messagingengine.com>", "from": { "name": "Rex Lycanthrosaurus", "address": "lycanthrosaurus at fastmail.fm" }, "date": "2007-07-04T18:10:32+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Dark Alchemy", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "\"Dark Alchemy\" is the retitled UK version of the US published \"Wizards.\"\n\nThe Wolfe story, if memory serves, is \"Magical Animals\" and is about a\nyoung boy who may be Merlin and his relationship throughout time with\nViviane. (The book has gone back to the library, so I can't look it up.)\n\nThere are reviews in the March (Gevers) and May (Horton) issues of\nLocus, but only the former mentions the Wolfe story. (He liked it.)\n\nDon't know why the antho was retitled for sale in the UK -- one would\nthink Pottermaniacs would be more inclined to pick up a volume labeled\n\"Wizards\" than \"Dark Alchemy.\"\n \nOn Wed, 4 Jul 2007 12:25:06 +0100, \"Nigel Price\" \nsaid:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "There was a review by Lisa Tuttle of a new children's fantasy anthology\ncalled \"Dark Alchemy\" in the Summer Books section of Saturday's Times\n(The\nTimes, 30 June 2007, Books, p9). The book is edited by Jack Dann and\nGardner\nDozois and includes a new story by Gene Wolfe.\n\nDoes anyone know any further details about the Wolfe story or the\nanthology\nin general?" }, { "kind": "sig", "depth": 0, "text": " Rex Lycanthrosaurus\n lycanthrosaurus at fastmail.fm\n\n-- \nhttp://www.fastmail.fm - Access your email from home and the web" } ] } ] }