{ "export": { "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/5173", "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": 5173, "subject": "Bit of Wolfe news", "messages": 9, "voices": 4, "first": "2008-10-10T15:24:59+00:00", "last": "2008-10-10T18:11:34+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "aaron", "address": "aaronsingleton at gmail.com" }, "date": "2008-10-10T15:24:59+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Bit of Wolfe news", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I just read this on Sci-fi wire. A bit of info on GW's next two books.\n\n\nMultiple-award-winning SF/fantasy author Gene Wolfe told SCI FI Wire that\nhis latest novel, *An Evil Guest*, takes place in the same world as his\nnovella \"Memorare,\" which was a finalist for both the Hugo and Nebula\nawards.\n\n\"I'd written 'Memorare,' laid in a world in which a low-cost star drive had\nbeen discovered in the near future, and I wanted to set another story\nthere,\" Wolfe said in an interview.\n\nBut while that sounds like a traditional science fiction story, *An Evil\nGuest* includes many other elements, such as wizards and werewolves.\n\nYears ago, Wolfe heard someone describe a consultant as a \"wizard,\" so he\nthought: What if that consultant everybody said was a wizard actually\n*was*a wizard? \"When I had pictured him in the Oval Office talking to\nthe\npresident, I knew what he looked like and what he was like, and I knew that\nhis name was Gideon Chase,\" Wolfe said.\n\nIn the novel, the wizard Gideon Chase is asked to go after sinister\nbillionaire William Reis. \"Unable to locate Reis, Chase uses his powers to\nrender a minor actress--Cassie Casey--beautiful, glamorous and immensely\ntalented,\" Wolfe said. \"Reis takes the bait. He steals it, too.\"\n\nThere are many technological (and other) wonders in the book. \"The star\ndrive is the main technological marvel,\" Wolfe said. \"The money that would\nbuy you a light plane today will buy you a spacecraft. Cassie's agent says\nher hopper [spacecraft] is just a little pink bug, but one she can drive to\nMars. [Also,] Reis can manufacture gold, but his gold is radioactive. There\nare aliens living on Earth and keeping out of sight.\"\n\nWolfe is currently working on two new books. \"*The Sorcerer's House* [is]\nalmost ready to go to the agency; of course it's been almost ready for about\na year,\" he said. \"I'm still writing the first draft of *Home Fires*, and\nthe second is going to be a bear.\" --*John Joseph Adams*" } ] }, { "message_id": "<44fb53d10810100830n5700975cv402d656d2b2534b5@mail.gmail.com>", "from": { "name": "Matthew Keeley", "address": "matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com" }, "date": "2008-10-10T15:30:42+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Bit of Wolfe news", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:24 AM, aaron wrote:\nI just read this on Sci-fi wire. A bit of info on GW's next two books.\n\nWolfe is currently working on two new books. \"The Sorcerer's House [is]\nalmost ready to go to the agency; of course it's been almost ready for about\na year,\" he said. \"I'm still writing the first draft of Home Fires, and the\nsecond is going to be a bear.\" --John Joseph Adams" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Thanks for the news. I'd heard of The Sorcerer's House before - he\nreally seems to have been doing a lot of work on that one. I'm glad\nhe's still going forward with it, as the plot sounded quite\ninteresting. And the emphasis on a house reminds one a bit of Peace.\n\nI recall Wolfe mentioning the plot of another book somewhere, but I\nhave no idea if that's Home Fires. Interesting title certainly.\n\n-Matt" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Adam Thornton", "address": "adam at io.com" }, "date": "2008-10-10T15:39:19+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Bit of Wolfe news", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Oct 10, 2008, at 10:24 AM, aaron wrote:\n\"I'd written 'Memorare,' laid in a world in which a low-cost star \ndrive had been discovered in the near future, and I wanted to set \nanother story there,\" Wolfe said in an interview." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "A-HA!\n\nNow I need to go back through _EG_ and see if I can find the passage \nthat made me jump and say \"Wait, isn't that 'Memorare'?\" because \nthere *was* one.\n\nAdam" } ] }, { "message_id": "<44fb53d10810100844q5f523c50j57d1790d97ee64f0@mail.gmail.com>", "from": { "name": "Matthew Keeley", "address": "matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com" }, "date": "2008-10-10T15:44:50+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Bit of Wolfe news", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Adam Thornton wrote:\n\n\nNow I need to go back through _EG_ and see if I can find the passage that\nmade me jump and say \"Wait, isn't that 'Memorare'?\" because there *was*\none.\n\nAdam" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I don't have my copy with me, so I can't physically search through the\nbook... But I did an Amazon search for a bit I remembered:\n\n(p. 53) the dangers of \"[touring] the moons of Jupiter in his new\nhopper on their honeymoon\"\n\n-Matt" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Adam Thornton", "address": "adam at io.com" }, "date": "2008-10-10T15:49:28+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Bit of Wolfe news", "in_reply_to": "<44fb53d10810100844q5f523c50j57d1790d97ee64f0@mail.gmail.com>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Oct 10, 2008, at 10:44 AM, Matthew Keeley wrote:\n\n(p. 53) the dangers of \"[touring] the moons of Jupiter in his new\nhopper on their honeymoon\"" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Yeah, that was it.\n\nAdam" } ] }, { "message_id": "<7516.67.142.130.17.1223655073.squirrel@brunians.org>", "from": { "name": "brunians at brunians.org", "address": "brunians at brunians.org" }, "date": "2008-10-10T16:11:13+00:00", "subject": "(urth) SPOILER (Was: Re: Bit of Wolfe news)", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Oct 10, 2008, at 10:24 AM, aaron wrote:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "\"I'd written 'Memorare,' laid in a world in which a low-cost star\ndrive had been discovered in the near future, and I wanted to set\nanother story there,\" Wolfe said in an interview." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "A-HA!\n\nNow I need to go back through _EG_ and see if I can find the passage\nthat made me jump and say \"Wait, isn't that 'Memorare'?\" because\nthere *was* one." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "The play Cassie is in at the beginning of the book is called \"The Red\nSpot\" and two of the other characters in the play are talking about taking\ntheir vacation in the moons of Jupiter, which is presented as a risky kind\nof a thing to do.\n\n'Memorare' takes place in Jupiter's system or Saturn's? I misremember.\n\n\n\n\n." } ] }, { "message_id": "<10099.67.142.130.17.1223655225.squirrel@brunians.org>", "from": { "name": "brunians at brunians.org", "address": "brunians at brunians.org" }, "date": "2008-10-10T16:13:45+00:00", "subject": "(urth) SPOILER (Was: Re: Bit of Wolfe news)", "in_reply_to": "<44fb53d10810100844q5f523c50j57d1790d97ee64f0@mail.gmail.com>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Adam Thornton wrote:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "Now I need to go back through _EG_ and see if I can find the passage\nthat\nmade me jump and say \"Wait, isn't that 'Memorare'?\" because there *was*\none.\n\nAdam" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "I don't have my copy with me, so I can't physically search through the\nbook... But I did an Amazon search for a bit I remembered:\n\n(p. 53) the dangers of \"[touring] the moons of Jupiter in his new\nhopper on their honeymoon\"" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Right. This is in reference to two fictional characters, in the play\nCassie is originally appearing in.\n\n\n\n." } ] }, { "message_id": "<44fb53d10810100922n30517599l288cfaa114140f29@mail.gmail.com>", "from": { "name": "Matthew Keeley", "address": "matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com" }, "date": "2008-10-10T16:22:47+00:00", "subject": "(urth) SPOILER (Was: Re: Bit of Wolfe news)", "in_reply_to": "<7516.67.142.130.17.1223655073.squirrel@brunians.org>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:11 PM, wrote:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "On Oct 10, 2008, at 10:24 AM, aaron wrote:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "The play Cassie is in at the beginning of the book is called \"The Red\nSpot\" and two of the other characters in the play are talking about taking\ntheir vacation in the moons of Jupiter, which is presented as a risky kind\nof a thing to do." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "\"The Red Spot,\" huh? I thought that might be another sf reference, but\napparently it's actually a real thing -\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_red_spot#Great_Red_Spot\n\n-Matt" } ] }, { "message_id": "<6851.72.171.0.142.1223662294.squirrel@brunians.org>", "from": { "name": "brunians at brunians.org", "address": "brunians at brunians.org" }, "date": "2008-10-10T18:11:34+00:00", "subject": "(urth) SPOILER (Was: Re: Bit of Wolfe news)", "in_reply_to": "<44fb53d10810100922n30517599l288cfaa114140f29@mail.gmail.com>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Yes, Jupiter's Great Red Spot has been widely known since shortly after\nthe invention of the telescope.\n\n\n\n." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:11 PM, wrote:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 3, "text": "On Oct 10, 2008, at 10:24 AM, aaron wrote:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "The play Cassie is in at the beginning of the book is called \"The Red\nSpot\" and two of the other characters in the play are talking about\ntaking\ntheir vacation in the moons of Jupiter, which is presented as a risky\nkind\nof a thing to do." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "\"The Red Spot,\" huh? I thought that might be another sf reference, but\napparently it's actually a real thing -\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_red_spot#Great_Red_Spot\n\n-Matt\n_______________________________________________" } ] } ] }