{ "export": { "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/6190", "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": 6190, "subject": "The Missing Are Deadly", "messages": 3, "voices": 3, "first": "2012-03-20T13:04:44+00:00", "last": "2012-03-20T13:13:16+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Fred Kiesche", "address": "godelescherbach at gmail.com" }, "date": "2012-03-20T13:04:44+00:00", "subject": "(urth) The Missing Are Deadly", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "After reading the message about the \"May is Gene Wolfe Shorts Month\", I\nwent to my shelf to pull down some books. And made a shocking discovery:\nwhere has all my Gene Wolfe gone?\n\nI mean, I **swear** I bought Pirate Freedom. Not there. Couldn't find\nPeace. Castle of Days is there, both versions of the best of were there\n(anybody want the Tor version as I have the SubPress version as well with\none extra story?). New Sun, etc., Sidon, all there.\n\nBut no: There Are Doors, Endangered Species, The Devil in a Forest, Pirate\nFreedom, Peace, Starwater Strains, Strange Travelers, Storeys from the Old\nHotel, Innocents Abroad.\n\nMostly short story collections...did some librarian from a far-off\nalternate/future world come and raid my collection? Or did I just loan them\nout and forget who I loaned them to? Or are they mis-shelved?\n\nIf not misplaced on the shelves, then probably gone. Luckily all are in\nprint, most are in print for new. But weird." }, { "kind": "sig", "depth": 0, "text": "F.P. Kiesche III \"Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. Always,\nscribble, scribble, scribble, eh?\" (The Duke of Gloucester, on being\npresented with Volume 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.)\nBlogging at The Lensman's Children (\nhttp://theeternalgoldenbraid.blogspot.com/)." } ] }, { "message_id": "<4F6881C5.7000302@verizon.net>", "from": { "name": "David Stockhoff", "address": "dstockhoff at verizon.net" }, "date": "2012-03-20T13:10:29+00:00", "subject": "(urth) The Missing Are Deadly", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I have all those, so perhaps my library hunted yours down and ate it. \nThat's what a lupine library would do." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On 3/20/2012 9:04 AM, Fred Kiesche wrote:\nAfter reading the message about the \"May is Gene Wolfe Shorts Month\", \nI went to my shelf to pull down some books. And made a shocking \ndiscovery: where has all my Gene Wolfe gone?\nI mean, I **swear** I bought Pirate Freedom. Not there. Couldn't find \nPeace. Castle of Days is there, both versions of the best of were \nthere (anybody want the Tor version as I have the SubPress version as \nwell with one extra story?). New Sun, etc., Sidon, all there.\nBut no: There Are Doors, Endangered Species, The Devil in a Forest, \nPirate Freedom, Peace, Starwater Strains, Strange Travelers, Storeys \nfrom the Old Hotel, Innocents Abroad.\nMostly short story collections...did some librarian from a far-off \nalternate/future world come and raid my collection? Or did I just loan \nthem out and forget who I loaned them to? Or are they mis-shelved?\nIf not misplaced on the shelves, then probably gone. Luckily all are \nin print, most are in print for new. But weird.\n\n-- \nF.P. Kiesche III \"Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. \nAlways, scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?\" (The Duke of Gloucester, on \nbeing presented with Volume 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman \nEmpire.) Blogging at The Lensman's Children \n(http://theeternalgoldenbraid.blogspot.com/).\n\n\n\n\n_______________________________________________" } ] }, { "message_id": "<8CED4B258FF97A2-6C8-54B0@webmail-m132.sysops.aol.com>", "from": { "name": "jbarach at aol.com", "address": "jbarach at aol.com" }, "date": "2012-03-20T13:13:16+00:00", "subject": "(urth) The Missing Are Deadly", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Maybe the librarian is blind?\n\nJohn\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Fred Kiesche \nTo: The Urth Mailing List \nSent: Tue, Mar 20, 2012 8:04 am\nSubject: (urth) The Missing Are Deadly\n\n\nAfter reading the message about the \"May is Gene Wolfe Shorts Month\", I went to my shelf to pull down some books. And made a shocking discovery: where has all my Gene Wolfe gone?\n \nI mean, I **swear** I bought Pirate Freedom. Not there. Couldn't find Peace. Castle of Days is there, both versions of the best of were there (anybody want the Tor version as I have the SubPress version as well with one extra story?). New Sun, etc., Sidon, all there.\n \nBut no: There Are Doors, Endangered Species, The Devil in a Forest, Pirate Freedom, Peace, Starwater Strains, Strange Travelers, Storeys from the Old Hotel, Innocents Abroad.\n \nMostly short story collections...did some librarian from a far-off alternate/future world come and raid my collection? Or did I just loan them out and forget who I loaned them to? Or are they mis-shelved?\n \nIf not misplaced on the shelves, then probably gone. Luckily all are in print, most are in print for new. But weird." }, { "kind": "sig", "depth": 0, "text": "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 The Lensman's Children (http://theeternalgoldenbraid.blogspot.com/).\n\n\n\n " } ] } ] }