New Wolfe stories

Gwern Branwen · 20 Aug 2010, 04:06 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: gwern0 at gmail.com (Gwern Branwen)
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:06:55 -0400
Subject: (urth) New Wolfe stories
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On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Matthew Keeley
<matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I didn't realize the Amazon listing had shown up already, nor that the book
> came out so soon. Home Fires is a novel. He talked about it at Readercon
> 2009 ? spoke about some characters, the setting, etc.
> I wrote a post to Urth on Wolfe at Readercon in July of last year; the post
> is presumably in the Urth Archives for July 2009.
> Here's the relevant section of my report on Wolfe's comments:
> (Minor spoilers, I suppose)
> When I asked?what Wolfe was working on, he talked a little about Home Fires,
> the
> second draft of which he finished in February. Apparently it involves
> an energy-poor future Earth, an interstellar war, and complications in
> love arriving as a result of time dilation.
>
> -Matt

Hm. A future earth, an interstellar war, time travel, and love. Maybe
we're getting another entry in the AEG-verse, one which isn't so
'heavily expurgated of the overarching story' (as one MLer put it,
IIRC).

-- 
gwern

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