From: "David A Baird" 
Subject: Re: (urth) First Mail
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 22:16:20 +0200

Hello James

Can't seem to connect to that server - I'll try again tomorrow.

I've seen Lexicon Urthus mentioned but I thought it was out of print. I'd
dearly love a copy so I can fill in my ignorance of the abundabt words Wolfe
uses that I have no inkling of at all.

Only 97K - hmmm, I'd always envidaged it as being much later, of the order
of several million. But then again, I was thinking of a natural demise of
the sun although in this re-read I noticed that the Hierodules have
'planted' a black hole in there to keep Urth at bay. On the other hand, I
read somewhere that it was in fact from the previous divine cycle - which I
assume is in fact a reference to the oscillating universe theory...

Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Wynn" 
To: 
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 9:01 PM
Subject: RE: (urth) First Mail


> http://www.op.net/~pduggan/wolfestore.html
> Here's a nice listing of books in print.
>
> Incidentally, Mantis was surely too modest to mention that that fine
> publication Lexicon Urthus (also plugged at the same linked site --
> http://www.op.net/~pduggan/lexicon.html) postulates, if my memory serves
> rightly, that Severian lives about 97K years in the future.
>
> But, of course, that point has been a subject of much recent debate.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David A Baird [mailto:david.baird@skynet.be]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 12:55 PM
> To: urth@urth.net
> Subject: Re: (urth) First Mail
>
> That was too easy :-)
>
> I'd also seem some references to 'A Tale From The Wonders Of Urth And
> Sky'...???
>
> Dave
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Andre-Driussi" 
> To: 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 7:31 PM
> Subject: Re: (urth) First Mail
>
>
> > Hello there Dave Baird, and welcome aboard!
> >
> > >So, a bit of guidance from those of you that know  better than I - what
> is
> > >the complete list of books related and what should I  read next?
> >
> > Yay, an easy question!
> >
> > 1) THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN
> > 2) THE URTH OF THE NEW SUN
> > 3) THE BOOK OF THE LONG SUN (four volumes)
> > 4) THE BOOK OF THE SHORT SUN (three volumes)
> >
> > Ta-da!
> >
> > =mantis=
> >
> >
> >
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