{ "export": { "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/5168", "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": 5168, "subject": "Best of Gene Wolfe and another thing", "messages": 4, "voices": 4, "first": "2008-10-09T04:50:41+00:00", "last": "2008-10-09T11:04:23+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "<180398.23468.qm@web32408.mail.mud.yahoo.com>", "from": { "name": "don doggett", "address": "kingwukong at yahoo.com" }, "date": "2008-10-09T04:50:41+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Best of Gene Wolfe and another thing", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Sometimes, probably most times, God, or fate, or whomever or whatever, throws an unworthy dog(gett) a bone. I was perusing a box of ARCs at work today and what did I pull up from the churning depths of the Wordage Sea but an advance copy of The Best of Gene Wolfe. There are thirty-one stories total, and I'm willing to list them if there is interest and if none of the members with more editorial savy than I have find it objectionable. \n\nOn An Evil Guest related note, I've just finished The Shark God, by Charles Montgomery, about his experiences in Melanesia, which is the obvious analog for the islands of the Takanga Group. I have no idea if Wolfe has read this book but it is a fascinating travel memoir, and at the end, sublimely moving. I can't recommend it enough.\n\nDon\n\nThe Evangelists: a Lesser Apocrypha http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=178109961\n\n\n " } ] }, { "message_id": "<3328.67.142.130.23.1223537168.squirrel@brunians.org>", "from": { "name": "brunians at brunians.org", "address": "brunians at brunians.org" }, "date": "2008-10-09T07:26:08+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Best of Gene Wolfe and another thing", "in_reply_to": "<180398.23468.qm@web32408.mail.mud.yahoo.com>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Don writes:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On An Evil Guest related note, I've just finished The Shark God, by\nCharles Montgomery, about his experiences in Melanesia, which is the\nobvious analog for the islands of the Takanga Group." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Beg to differ, Takanga sounded a lot more like Tonga than it does like\nanyplace else. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonga\n\nIn any case it is obviously a Polynesian and not a Melanesian country:\nPolynesians are the brown giants, Melanesians are smaller and look like\nAfricans, more or less.\n\nOn an aside, Nan Madol (http://www.pohnpeiheaven.com/nanmadol.htm) seems\nto have been Lovecraft's model for lost R'lyeh.\n\n\n\n." } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Nigel Price", "address": "nigelaprice at talktalk.net" }, "date": "2008-10-09T11:01:06+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Best of Gene Wolfe and another thing", "in_reply_to": "<3328.67.142.130.23.1223537168.squirrel@brunians.org>", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Don Doggett wrote about \"The Best of Gene Wolfe\"..." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "There are thirty-one stories total, and I'm willing\nto list them if there is interest and if none of the\nmembers with more editorial savy than I have find it\nobjectionable." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I don't know what the terms are under which advance copies of books are\ndistributed, but the prime concern of most publishers is generating interest\nand publicity for their books. Advance copies are geberally sent out so that\nthey can be reviewed, so in that spirit I can't see there being any\nobjection to your giving us a list of the stories contained in this volume.\nI'm certainly interested, and I'm sure others are too. Indeed, collectively,\nI would have thought that we constituted a prime market for this book!\n\nSo...\n\nWhich stories have they chosen to include, Don?\n\nNigel" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Mr Thalassocrat", "address": "thalassocrat08 at gmail.com" }, "date": "2008-10-09T11:04:23+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Best of Gene Wolfe and another thing", "in_reply_to": "<3328.67.142.130.23.1223537168.squirrel@brunians.org>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 5:56 PM, wrote:\nDon writes:\n\nBeg to differ, Takanga sounded a lot more like Tonga than it does like\nanyplace else. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonga\n\nIn any case it is obviously a Polynesian and not a Melanesian country:\nPolynesians are the brown giants, Melanesians are smaller and look like\nAfricans, more or less." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Yep, I agree - Tonga is the closest real place; Polynesian, it's a monarchy\n& the people are big!\n\nWherever, it's almost certainly a Commonwealth country, judging by King\nWoossisname, so it should be \"New Zealand High Commission\", not \"Consulate\".\nNot that it matters." } ] } ] }