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From: fqgouvea at colby.edu (Fernando Gouvea)
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2020 08:54:23 -0500
Subject: (urth) from the Centipede Press weekly newsletter
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Centipede Press <jerad at centipedepress.com> asks:

>
>         Okay. I might be sorry I asked this, but who are the ?Gene
>         Wolfe? people out there? As you know, I am doing new editions
>         of the six-book /The Book of the New Sun/ series. One nice
>         thing to have would be new maps. I found an artist in France
>         who does this sort of work with flair and panache, but the
>         artist is looking for help with the basic structure of the The
>         Book of the New Sun?s world. If you?re the Gene Wolfe fan who
>         obsesses over this, and has rigorously analyzed all of the
>         maps thus far created (there?s one on Wikipedia, and one
>         created by Gurps, too, among several others)???your help is
>         requested with this project. All I need to know is what is
>         (are) considered the most regarded and considered the most
>         accurate map(s). My map maker can extrapolate from there and
>         make it into something amazing. If you?re that person, who?s
>         really really /really/ into this, and who knows the subject
>         backwards and forwards, please give me a shout!
>

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Fernando Q. Gouvea         http://www.colby.edu/~fqgouvea
Carter Professor of Mathematics
Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics
Colby College
5836 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, ME 04901

The rule is: any movie with a dad is a movie with a bad dad.
   -- Frederica Mathewes-Green

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