Urth-Man Extraordinary

m.driussi · 02 Jun 1997, 21:15 · from whorl-v0005.mbox · original

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From: m.driussi at genie.com
Subject: (whorl) Urth-Man Extraordinary
Date: Mon,  2 Jun 97 21:15:00 GMT
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[Posted from WHORL, the mailing list for Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun]

Reply:  Item #4111204 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET#

Ron Crown,

I'm happy to have helped out and find myself quite impressed that you
already possess the artifacts (after all, =3Dthat=3D is the hard part!).
By all means start on that annotated list of secondary sources
=3Dimmediately=3D!

"It's not just for me," he said selfishly, drooling with open
avarice.  "Think about all the others . . . there must be
hundreds--dozens!"

Since I got in trouble with Galactic Central UK for the incomplete
info I gave in AE&2, my albatrosspenance is to write that:

Outside of the US, "Urth-Man Extraordinary" is available (2.50 pounds
sterling) from

Phil Stephensen-Payne
`Imladris'
25A Copgrove Road
LEEDS
West Yorkshire
LS8 2SP
ENGLAND

(Tell him I sent you and maybe they'll take this stinking bird off my
neck!)

Everybody who does not already have it must buy this Gene Wolfe bibliography
=3Dright now=3D.  That means =3Dtoday=3D.

I can't remember how I ever found out about it (probably it was Dan Knight =
of
United Mythologies who mentioned it?), but once I got a copy I discovered
many things for the first time, including: Crampton's "Book of Gold" fanzin=
e,
obscure Wolfe stories, and more.  Galactic Central has forty-two titles or
more--I've also bought copies of their biblios on Jack Vance and Edgar Pang=
born,
both are excellent.  (I'm just about due to buy some new ones--who next? <g=
>)

They are inexpensive; they are good; they are good for you.

=3Dmantis=3D

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