Rostrum, take up thy pitchfork

Michael Andre-Driussi · 21 Mar 2002, 17:37 · from urth-v0203.mbox · original

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From: Michael Andre-Driussi <mantis at siriusfiction.com>
Subject: (urth) Rostrum, take up thy pitchfork
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 09:37:48 -0800
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Rostrum,

Okay, we have found the list at Ultan's Library!  (Some of the library rats
were using it as a slide for a theme park based on Chutes and Ladders.)

Well, it needs to be updated.  So here, in the meantime I'll give you a
pitchfork with which to begin your hunt for needles in the hay.  Titles
only for uncollected stories (stories published up to 1996; collections up
to STRANGE TRAVELERS) (you can use search engines from there).

This list is Not Complete.

The Arimapsian Legacy               CS
At the Point of Capricorn           WT Spring 1988
The Boy Who Hooked the Sun          WT Spring 1988, YBF #2
Empires of Foliage and Flower       CS, Crank! #2
The Friendship Light                F&SF 10-89
Game in the Pope's Head             Ripper!, YBF #2
Going to the Beach                  Showcase (Elwood)
Houston, 1943                       Tropical Chills (Sullivan)
How the Bishop Sailed to Inniskeen  Asimov's 12-89
It's Very Clean                     Generation (Gerrold)
King Under the Mountain             WIF 11/12-70
Loco Parentis                       ADV
Lord of the Land                    Lovecraft's Legacy, BNH #2
The Monday Man                      Monochrome: Readercon Anth.
The Old Woman Whose Rolling Pin
    Is the Sun                      CS
Read Me                             The Drabble Project
Remembrance to Come                 Orbit 6
The River                           Amazing 5-83
Robot's Story                       ADV
The Sailor Who Sailed After the Sun Grails: Quests of the Dawn (Gilliam)
The Seraph from the Sepulcher       Sacred Visions (Greeley)
Slow Children                       CS
The Tale of the Four Accused        Arabesques 2 (Shwartz)
Tarzan of the Grapes                F&SF 6-72, MWALB (Farmer)
Thou Spark of Blood                 WIF 4-70
Try and Kill it                     Asimov's 10-11/96

"ADV" =3D Again, Dangerous Visions (Ellison)
"CS" =3D Cheap Street
"F&SF" =3D The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
"MWALB" =3D Mother Was A Lovely Beast
"WIF" =3D Worlds of If magazine
"WT" =3D Weird Tales
"YBF" =3D Year's Best Fantasy
"YBH" =3D Year's Best Horror

>There's an awful lot of uncollected short stories out there, so I was
>wondering if those of you who have tracked them down might suggest which
>are the most worth chasing.  What are some of the best Wolfe stories not
>found in the common anthologies (e.g., the ones I have):

Ah, this is the trickiest part of your request.  First we have to find at
least two people who have read a fraction of these stories, then we have to
argue over rating/ranking them.  Big Job!


>and where can they be found?

Eek, you think this is easy?

=3Dmantis=3D


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