[fictionmags] Wolfe And Alternate History

And more ...... hartshorn ----- Original Message ----- From: gvgfsf at aol.com To: fictionmags at yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 1:06 AM Subject: [fictionmags] Wolfe And Alternate History From Ellen Datlow, in London: I can't post to fictionmags from my yahoo mail address so could you pass the info to the person who asked about any alternate histories by Gene Wolfe that we published "Copperhead" in SCI FICTION in 2001 and it's an alternate history. Thanks. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.

Good gosh! Maybe this statement will help me understand the story, but how can you tell "Copperhead" is not near-future? Does this make "The Peace Spy" alternate history? There's plenty of alternate history, of a sort, in BotNS, and rather less in Free Live Free. Speaking of BotNS, has anyone discussed the possibility that the Severian in BotSS is not the one we know, but one from an "earlier" timeline? That would explain the discrepancies between the accounts of Merryn in New Sun and Short Sun. If either Severian or Silkhorn is simply deceiving us, why? (Not because Severian decided not to put Silkhorn in his book, it seems to me--he could have broken that oath, as he broke so many others, or he could have easily gotten around it.)