{ "export": { "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/5841", "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": 5841, "subject": "Publishers Weekly on Home Fires (mild spoilers)", "messages": 4, "voices": 2, "first": "2010-12-17T15:47:03+00:00", "last": "2010-12-17T17:03:28+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "<4D0B85F7.8040505@gmail.com>", "from": { "name": "James Wynn", "address": "crushtv at gmail.com" }, "date": "2010-12-17T15:47:03+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Publishers Weekly on Home Fires (mild spoilers)", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "http://undermyappletree.wordpress.com/2010/12/17/friday-finds-december-17th/\n\n/*Home Fires by Gene Wolfe */\n\n/From Publishers Weekly: \"Against a backdrop of science fictional \nelements such as time dilation through space travel, cyborgs, and brain \ndownloads, Science Fiction Hall of Fame inductee Wolfe (The Sorcerer's \nHouse) builds a romance and a mystery. Successful lawyer Skip Grison \nwants to find a wonderful gift for his contracted paramour, Chelle Blue, \nnow 20 years his junior after an interstellar military tour. *After \nreuniting Chelle with her estranged mother, Vanessa, whose consciousness \nhas been downloaded into a new body*, Skip takes Chelle on a \nround-the-world cruise that turns into an almost screwball comedy of \nhijackings and chaos as shadowy people may be trying to get to Skip, \nChelle, Vanessa, or someone else entirely. Red herrings and unknown, \nmistaken, or confused identities saturate the novel, making this well \nsuited for readers, especially mystery readers, who don't often read \nscience fiction.\"\n/\n\n---------------------\n\nDoes it seem to anyone else that Cory Doctorow is Wolfe's favorite \nauthor right now?\n\nu+16b9" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes", "address": "danldo at gmail.com" }, "date": "2010-12-17T16:17:23+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Publishers Weekly on Home Fires (mild spoilers)", "in_reply_to": "<4D0B85F7.8040505@gmail.com>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 7:47 AM, James Wynn wrote:\nhttp://undermyappletree.wordpress.com/2010/12/17/friday-finds-december-17th/" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Does it seem to anyone else that Cory Doctorow is Wolfe's favorite author\nright now?" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Actually I would think first of Charles Stross. Have you read _Accelerando_?" }, { "kind": "sig", "depth": 0, "text": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" } ] }, { "message_id": "<4D0B960E.2030300@gmail.com>", "from": { "name": "James Wynn", "address": "crushtv at gmail.com" }, "date": "2010-12-17T16:55:42+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Publishers Weekly on Home Fires (mild spoilers)", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "James Wynn-\nhttp://undermyappletree.wordpress.com/2010/12/17/friday-finds-december-17th/\nDoes it seem to anyone else that Cory Doctorow is Wolfe's favorite author\nright now?" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes-\nActually I would think first of Charles Stross. Have you read _Accelerando_?" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Hmm...no. Do you recommend it?\nBut _An Evil Guest_ folded in Doctorow's mountain and washing machine \nmarried couple from _Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves_ and --while \nthe concept of downloading backups in to new bodies is not unique-- this \nbit does bring to mind _Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom_.\n\nu+16b9" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes", "address": "danldo at gmail.com" }, "date": "2010-12-17T17:03:28+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Publishers Weekly on Home Fires (mild spoilers)", "in_reply_to": "<4D0B960E.2030300@gmail.com>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 8:55 AM, James Wynn wrote:\n\\>> Dan'l Danehy-Oakes-" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "Actually I would think first of Charles Stross. Have you read\n_Accelerando_?" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Hmm...no. Do you recommend it?" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Highly, and you can download it legally. It's a family saga set in and\naround a Singularity." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "But _An Evil Guest_ folded in Doctorow's mountain and washing machine\nmarried couple from _Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves_ and --while the\nconcept of downloading backups in to new bodies is not unique-- this bit\ndoes bring to mind _Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom_." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Which I have totally blonked out. I read it but didn't think much of it." }, { "kind": "sig", "depth": 0, "text": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" } ] } ] }