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From: m.driussi@genie.com Subject: (urth) new booklets Date: Wed, 18 Nov 98 23:52:00 GMT This seems like a good time to mention that there are three new booklets available right now: "Additions, Errata, &cetera: volume 3" (1998) is the final booklet of notes, weighing in at 11,000 words. This volume's celebrity contributor is David Langford. Topics include: the three universe model, mechanics of mirror magic, Valeria's Reign, the black hole in the dying sun, notes on Eschatology & Genesis, astereoengineering, Kardashev levels of interstellar civilization, Urth's power grids, and much more. Price: $3 (plus postage). "NS-1: a synopsis of Severian's narrative" (1998). A chapter by chapter summary of The Book of the New Sun and The Urth of the New Sun. Appendices for "Sailor Talk" (listing all the Wellerisms used by the sailors); "Authorized Texts" (the stock phrases used by Ascians); a newly revised and expanded Timeline of Posthistory; and a "Stream of Symbols." Price: $5 (plus postage). "LS-2: Languages of the Long Sun Whorl" (1998) covers all the slang, cant, jargon, and foreign language of the Long Sun series. Price: $5 (plus postage). (Other booklets available.) Postage cost: domestic US, $.60 per booklet. International Airmail: $2 for one booklet, $3.50 for two, $5 for three. =mantis= *More Wolfe info & archive of this list at http://www.urth.net/urth/