# Wolfe-influenced, if not Wolfe-esque *The Urth list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 10 Nov 2009* > 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. --- ### Stephen Case *10 Nov 2009, 18:13* I've published a second story that the list may or may not be interested in. I link it here simply because I consider myself a writer heavily influenced by Wolfe (and would of course welcome feedback): http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/story.php?s=63 -Steve --- ### brunians at brunians.org *10 Nov 2009, 23:19 · in reply to Stephen Case* How many pages? . > I've published a second story that the list may or may not be interested > in. I link it here simply because I consider myself a writer heavily > influenced by Wolfe (and would of course welcome feedback): > http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/story.php?s=63 > > -Steve > _______________________________________________ --- ### Gwern Branwen *11 Nov 2009, 01:01 · in reply to Stephen Case* > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Stephen Case wrote: > I've published a second story that the list may or may not be interested in. ?I link it here simply because I consider myself a writer heavily influenced by Wolfe (and would of course welcome feedback): http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/story.php?s=63 > > -Steve I think it's pretty decent, and not too long. The language is sometimes a bit affected where I suspect Wolf would've been terser. eg. I feel Wolfe might've written 'But I find I am getting ahead of my account.' as 'But I overrun my narrative.' The story itself is fine. My biggest gripe is that I'm still not sure how the palace thing worked. Invisible water lifting the palace? The entire time I was reading, I kept hoping - Be a Cloud Nine! Be a Cloud Nine! (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_nine_(Tensegrity_sphere) - a geodesic dome or sphere so large that its diameter is so small in proportion to its volume that it turns into a hot air balloon, essentially.) That would also be more Wolfean - real (at least, proposed) technology thought to be magic. But I'll admit I'm biased since I love the idea of a Cloud Nine and have used them in 2 of my own stories. ``` gwern ``` ---