Welcome Wombat

Kevin J. Maroney · 08 Sep 1997, 11:03 · from whorl-v0007.mbox · original

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: "Kevin J. Maroney" <kmaroney at crossover.com>
Subject: Re: (whorl) Welcome Wombat
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 11:03:32
Message-ID: <whorl-v0007-0559 at digest.urth.net>
X-Urthmirror-Source: http://www.urth.net/whorl/archives/v0007/0559.shtml
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

[Posted from WHORL, the mailing list for Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun]

At 10:31 PM 9/7/97 GMT, you wrote:
>Re: Whorl flight time.  It appears to have been 332 years subjective
>time (III,173) and 1000 years objective time (III,242); which in turn
>suggests an average speed of around .95 c (95% of light speed).  (Time
>compression, doncha know.)

I'll have to check those references out. Does my memory about Rose/Marble's
decimal point ring any bells?

>OTOH, Quetzal became head of the chapter thirty-three
>years ago (see character lists), so maybe this is a better marker?

I would think so, given Wolfe's explicit statement that Pas did not know of
the inhumi.=20

>Re: NYRSF, maybe you could post a bibliography of Wolfe related
>articles published in NYRSF through the years?  Along with ordering
>information!

Actually, we're preparing a series of internal ads along that exact idea.
The only one we've done so far is Delany, with PKD the obvious next; Wolfe
should be right after that, since I can't think of anyone else who has
received so much coverage in the magazine.

I love your "Autopsy of SF", by the way--that'll be in 110.=20

--
Wombat
Kevin Maroney		kmaroney at crossover.com
Kitchen Staff Supervisor	New York Review of Science Fiction
http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/olp/nyrsf/nyrsf.html

An unofficial mirror of a public mailing list · about & removal requests · download the archive · before the list · original archive at urth.net