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From: foxyab at casema.nl (Ab de Vos)
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2020 16:16:37 +0100
Subject: (urth) from the Centipede Press weekly newsletter
In-Reply-To: <c37866ea-58ec-dfe0-953f-be378cb2b38c at colby.edu>
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The list is quite comatose.

Op 6-12-2020 om 14:54 schreef Fernando Gouvea:
>
> 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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