PEACE -- 1st Novel

Darryl Swett09 May 2002, 18:10original as archived

PEACE -- 1st Novel

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From: Mark Millman <millman at heimdallr.dyndns.org> Reply-To: urth at urth.net To: <urth at urth.net> Subject: Re: (urth) Operation Ares: any copies still around? and PEACE cover art Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 12:42:08 -0400 (EDT) Speaking of errors, there's quite a one on the rear jacket flap of the 1975 Harper & Row hardcover edition of Peace: it says that Peace is Wolfe's first novel.

I have read that blurb in several places, and I assumed it to be true. It is not, then? -Darryl

Mark Millman09 May 2002, 18:33original as archived

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Darryl, No, it's not true. Operation ARES, for which Christopher Culver is looking (it's because of his message that we're discussing this), is Wolfe's first published novel; Berkley did so in 1970, releasing it as a paperback original. Peace is from 1975. _The Fifth Head of Cer- berus_ is older as well, since it was published by Scribner's in 1972, though not everyone may wish to consider it a novel. What I don't know, of course, is whether Mr. Wolfe started Peace first, and then left it in a drawer for several years before taking it up once again. Certainly the book we have is much more accomplished than Operation ARES, and clearly the product of a more mature writer --if what I've suggested above is the case, there must have been very extensive rewriting. Mark Millman (Nacre)

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On Thu, 9 May 2002, Darryl Swett wrote: [On Thursday 9 May 2002 at 12:42:08 I'd written:] Speaking of errors, there's quite a one on the rear jacket flap of the 1975 Harper & Row hardcover edi- tion of Peace: it says that Peace is Wolfe's first novel.

I have read that blurb in several places, and I assumed it to be true. It is not, then? -Darryl