# Welcome Wombat *The Whorl list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 07 Sep 1997* > 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. --- ### m.driussi *07 Sep 1997, 22:31* Reply: Item #1260418 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Wombat, Re: Whorl flight time. It appears to have been 332 years subjective time (III,173) and 1000 years objective time (III,242); which in turn suggests an average speed of around .95 c (95% of light speed). (Time compression, doncha know.) Re: arrival time. It seems that the time of the theocide would be the best marker of when the Whorl arrived in the Blue/Green system, and that would be about thirty years before the action of THE BOOK OF THE LONG SUN. OTOH, Quetzal became head of the chapter thirty-three years ago (see character lists), so maybe this is a better marker? Start at shipboard year 299 and count backward enough for an anonymous beef-tea sipping augur to rise through the ranks to become head of the chapter. (The last guy died at his desk, you say? My, my, my!) Re: NYRSF, maybe you could post a bibliography of Wolfe related articles published in NYRSF through the years? Along with ordering information! =mantis= --- ### Kevin J. Maroney *08 Sep 1997, 11:03 · follows m.driussi* > At 10:31 PM 9/7/97 GMT, you wrote: > Re: Whorl flight time. It appears to have been 332 years subjective > time (III,173) and 1000 years objective time (III,242); which in turn > suggests an average speed of around .95 c (95% of light speed). (Time > compression, doncha know.) I'll have to check those references out. Does my memory about Rose/Marble's decimal point ring any bells? > OTOH, Quetzal became head of the chapter thirty-three > years ago (see character lists), so maybe this is a better marker? I would think so, given Wolfe's explicit statement that Pas did not know of the inhumi. > Re: NYRSF, maybe you could post a bibliography of Wolfe related > articles published in NYRSF through the years? Along with ordering > information! Actually, we're preparing a series of internal ads along that exact idea. The only one we've done so far is Delany, with PKD the obvious next; Wolfe should be right after that, since I can't think of anyone else who has received so much coverage in the magazine. I love your "Autopsy of SF", by the way--that'll be in 110. ``` Wombat Kevin Maroney kmaroney at crossover.com Kitchen Staff Supervisor New York Review of Science Fiction http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/olp/nyrsf/nyrsf.html ``` ---