# Kevin's spoilers for _Return to the Whorl_ *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 12 Oct 1999* > 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. --- ### Kevin J. Maroney *12 Oct 1999, 11:37* > At 10:13 PM 10/11/99 -0700, Nick wrote: > So: somehow Nessus arises later in SHORT SUN, with > severian and Merryn in tow I didn't say that. I said Severian shows up, and so does his sister. I don't know what character that latter is. > Kevin: any publication dates for GREEN and WHORL yet? I don't know. Obviously, the mss. are complete; that's Wolfe's custom. I had heard that the three were going to be released on an accelerated schedule, say every eight months rather than every 12, but I don't know if that's fact or fancy. I'll ask Hartwell when he gets back from Frankfurt. Wombat, a.k.a. Kevin Maroney kmaroney at crossover.com Kitchen Staff Supervisor, New York Review of Science Fiction http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/olp/nyrsf/nyrsf.html *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---