(urth) summer project idea

[Fred Kiesche]

Since it usually takes me more than a month to read a month's worth of
tales, I launched my variant on this tonight. I started on The Very Best of
GW (the PS Publishing volume) with Kim Stanley Robinson's introduction (I
have a feeling that many on this list could give Stan a run for his money
when it comes to analysis of GW's works) and then on to "The Island of
Doctor Death and Other Stories".

I do not think I have read this story since I first encountered it in Orbit
way back when (what an anthology series that was), as I did not remember
much of the story other than the title. Edgar Rice Burroughs meets,
who...Faulkner? Kerouac? Salinger?

The excerpts from the book are fun, nicely capturing Wells and Burroughs
(Edgar Rice). And when the character's appear it is not artificial (if that
makes sense).

Resisting urge to skip ahead and read the others in the sequence. Will take
the book as it is presented.

Stan mentions candidates for a second volume. Second volume? Has that made
any progress?

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> --- On *Mon, 3/19/12, Daniel Petersen <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com>*wrote:
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> From: Daniel Petersen <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: (urth) summer project idea
> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
> Date: Monday, March 19, 2012, 4:22 PM
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> Are you going to include the three novelettes that make up Fifth Head of
> Cerberus as instances of short stories, or just leave them to one side as a
> one unified piece?  Just curious...
>
> -DOJP
>
> Since Fifth Head has been discussed a lot, I feel I should probably treat
> it as one piece and perhaps tackle it after the other fiction, if at all.
> I will let you know ...
>
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scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?" (The Duke of Gloucester, on being
presented with Volume 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.)
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