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The Whorl list — 4 messages, 3 voices, 09 Dec 2000
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Dave Lebling — 09 Dec 2000, 11:54

> The Short Sun books are apparently being treated as planetary
> adventure; which is about the right subgenre, when you come right down
> to it. We can just bloody well like it or lump it.

Dan'l wrote great wisdom on covers, but...

I just recently bought the omnibus Jack Vance _Dying Earth_ trade pb (my
Lancer _Dying Earth_ is falling apart, etc.).  The cover depicts a genre
spaceship hovering over a genre future-abstract planet's surface.  This book
is published by Orb, which, as I recall, is Tor (Wolfe's publisher) under an
assumed name.  _Dying Earth_ is, as I hope we all know,
magic&fantasy&manners set in the far, far future.  Certainly a Unique, but
the people looking for spaceships are going to be very confused.

Explain that one, please, Dan'l.

    -- Vizcacha
        aka Dave Lebling



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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes — 11 Dec 2000, 08:39
  follows, by subject match Dave Lebling

> Vizcacha wrote:
> I just recently bought the omnibus Jack Vance _Dying Earth_ trade pb (my
> Lancer _Dying Earth_ is falling apart, etc.).  The cover depicts a genre
> spaceship hovering over a genre future-abstract planet's surface.  This
> book
> is published by Orb, which, as I recall, is Tor (Wolfe's publisher) under
> an
> assumed name.  _Dying Earth_ is, as I hope we all know,
> magic&fantasy&manners set in the far, far future.  Certainly a Unique, but
> the people looking for spaceships are going to be very confused.
> 
> Explain that one, please, Dan'l.

Easy. Incompetence.


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Paul C Duggan — 12 Dec 2000, 12:40
  follows, by subject match Dan'l Danehy-Oakes

> > I just recently bought the omnibus Jack Vance _Dying Earth_ trade pb (my
> > Lancer _Dying Earth_ is falling apart, etc.).  The cover depicts a genre
> > spaceship hovering over a genre future-abstract planet's surface.  This
> > book
> > is published by Orb, which, as I recall, is Tor (Wolfe's publisher) under
> > an
> > assumed name.  _Dying Earth_ is, as I hope we all know,
> > magic&fantasy&manners set in the far, far future.  Certainly a Unique, but
> > the people looking for spaceships are going to be very confused.
> > 
> > Explain that one, please, Dan'l.

> Easy. Incompetence.

I dunno. It kinda reminded me of the scene where Rhialto and co go off for
the source of IOUN stones. Don't they have some kind of flying platform?

Paul



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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes — 12 Dec 2000, 09:50
  follows, by subject match Paul C Duggan

The quoted message chain ends with Paul:

> > > Explain that one, please, Dan'l.

> > Easy. Incompetence.

> I dunno. It kinda reminded me of the scene where Rhialto and co go off for
> the source of IOUN stones. Don't they have some kind of flying platform?

This is what I get for attempting irony on an email list. Damn it, do we 
have to put little emoticons after ***everything*** ...


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