<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><br><div>> From: Fred Kiesche <godelescherbach@gmail.com><br>> Jerry Friedman wrote:<br>>> Am I the only person here waiting for _The Splendor, the Misery, of Bodies, of Cities_?<br>> <br>>I'd love to see it as well, but is it actually moving forward?<br> <br>Not that I know of. I was just hoping.<br><br>>
As for the sequence of writing (Delany before Wolfe?), I recall getting
volumes of Damon Knight's ORBIT anthology with both appearing (maybe
not the same volume, but definitely in the</div><div>> same couple of years). And I recall reading both in the NEBULA collections of the same era.<br> <br>If
you look at the ISFDB, you'll see that aside from those college stories
that Wolfe forgot, Delany published several years earlier, was
nominated for awards several years earlier, and won his first award
several years earlier. Certainly they've overlapped a lot.<br><br>>
Delany probably moved into novels sooner (and faster), but production
there has tailed off as he did more and more teaching.<br><br>Delany's
first publication at the ISFDB was a novel (_The Jewels of Aptor_ in 1962). And is
it maybe vice-versa--did he do more and more teaching because his
literary production was falling off?<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">>Religion
vs. non-religion, I don't know, passages from NOVA and other works feel
pretty damn religious to me. Maybe Delany doesn't believe, but he sure
can talk the talk.<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">I believe he can do that. Maybe I was too sure of myself, but I very, very strongly suspect that he simply dismisses the talk, except maybe in occasional moods.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Jerry Friedman<br></div></div></body></html>