{ "export": { "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/whorl/856", "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": "whorl", "thread": { "id": 856, "subject": "IGJ is where? (no spoilers)", "messages": 4, "voices": 3, "first": "2000-07-16T16:11:14+00:00", "last": "2000-07-19T20:53:24+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Adam Stephanides", "address": "adamsteph at earthlink.net" }, "date": "2000-07-16T16:11:14+00:00", "subject": "(whorl) IGJ is where? (no spoilers)", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "So far, aside from the few people with advance copies, nobody but me has\nmentioned reading IGJ, or even seeing it. I checked out a B&N\n\"superstore\" yesterday, and they didn't have it. But I didn't\nhallucinate my copy, honest. Nor is it marked as an advance copy or\nanything like that; nor was it gotten out of a back room. It was\nsitting on a table along with other new sf books that indubitably have\nbeen released. Did I manage to stumble into the only store in the world\nwith a copy of IGJ?\n\nAnyway, I do have a couple more non-spoiler comments on the book, but I\nthink I'll wait until I know it's really out there.\n\n--Adam\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun." } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Inire", "address": "inire at yahoo.com" }, "date": "2000-07-16T22:49:32+00:00", "subject": "Re: (whorl) IGJ is where? (no spoilers)", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "--- Adam Stephanides wrote:\n\nAnyway, I do have a couple more non-spoiler comments\non the book, but I\nthink I'll wait until I know it's really out there." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Amazon seems to have it. Geez, I have a lot of reading\nto catch up on!!! ;-> I can't WAIT!\n\n=====\nJeff \"My dice hate me!\" Miller ICQ# 57242517\n\n\"The idea of verifying facts about the world through controlled repetition seems alien to just about everyone with the _possible_ exception of Fr Inire, and he's a bug-eyed space monster. . .\"-Jim Henley, on the URTH list\n \nGaming to keep War out of RealTime! '82 GS650G \nSpecify Type Of Goat" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "William Ansley", "address": "wansley at warwick.net" }, "date": "2000-07-18T23:03:02+00:00", "subject": "Re: (whorl) IGJ is where? (no spoilers)", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "At 10:49 PM -0700 7/16/00, Inire wrote:\n--- Adam Stephanides wrote:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": " Anyway, I do have a couple more non-spoiler comments\n on the book, but I\n think I'll wait until I know it's really out there." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Amazon seems to have it. Geez, I have a lot of reading\nto catch up on!!! ;-> I can't WAIT!" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I ordered my copy from Amazon.com on June 4 and just got an email \nthat it is arriving tomorrow. What serendipity! I am on vacation \nright now.\n\nI'll be able to read it and then finally be able to read Adam's first \nimpressions posting.\n\nHope all you other Amazon customers get your copies very soon now." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "At 5:58 PM -0400 7/17/00, Dan Parmenter wrote:\nFolks -\n\nIn Boston/Cambridge (USA), IGJ can be purchased at Pandemonium Books\nin Harvard Square (located in The Garage, across from Newbury Comics).\nThey have many copies. Support your local independent bookstore!" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I would love to support my local independent bookstore, but us \ncountry folk don't have the good pickins you city slickers do. " }, { "kind": "sig", "depth": 0, "text": "William Ansley\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun." } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Adam Stephanides", "address": "adamsteph at earthlink.net" }, "date": "2000-07-19T20:53:24+00:00", "subject": "Re: (whorl) IGJ is where? (no spoilers)", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "William Ansley wrote:\nI'll be able to read it and then finally be able to read Adam's first\nimpressions posting." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Perhaps I should say that while I put a spoiler warning on my post to be\non the safe side, and while you shouldn't read it if you want to come to\nIGJ absolutely fresh, I didn't discuss any crucial plot twists; in fact\nI didn't discuss the plot in detail at all. If you want to read a\nreview of IGJ, my post may serve in lieu of anything better.\n\n--Adam\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun." } ] } ] }