Bear Discovers Fire The Urth list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 07 Aug 2008 https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/5124 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 — 07 Aug 2008, 10:48 Greetings: Might I recommend a look at Greg Brear's new work, "City at the End of Time". The Prolog (that's how it is spelled in the book, although my spell check is disagreeing with me) reminds me of a certain author with the initials GW. Not as dense, but the echoes are there! F.P. Kiesche III "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. Always, scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?" (The Duke of Gloucester, on being presented with Volume 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.) Blogging at TexasBestGrok! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ brunians at brunians.org — 07 Aug 2008, 12:23 in reply to Fred Kiesche GB is OK. I know that Wolfe likes him (he told me so). Not quite on the Wolfe/Crowley level, but a good solid writer. . > Greetings: > > Might I recommend a look at Greg Brear's new work, "City at the End of > Time". The Prolog (that's how it is spelled in the book, although my spell > check is disagreeing with me) reminds me of a certain author with the > initials GW. Not as dense, but the echoes are there! > > F.P. Kiesche III "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. > Always, scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?" (The Duke of Gloucester, on > being presented with Volume 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman > Empire.) Blogging at TexasBestGrok! > > > _______________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gwern Branwen — 07 Aug 2008, 13:28 in reply to Fred Kiesche On 2008.08.07 03:48:32 -0700, Fred Kiesche scribbled 1.8K characters: > Greetings: > > Might I recommend a look at Greg Brear's new work, "City at the End of Time". The Prolog > (that's how it is spelled in the book, although my spell check is disagreeing with me) reminds > me of a certain author with the initials GW. Not as dense, but the echoes are there! > > F.P. Kiesche III I haven't read that book, but could 'Prolog' be a reference to the Prolog programming language? -- gwern Halcon SUW fissionable Manfurov Mat'Kal my Fedora BATF Armani $400 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------