From: m.driussi@genie.com
Subject: (urth) Hello & Welcome
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 97 02:13:00 GMT


[Posted from URTH, a mailing list about Gene Wolfe's New Sun and other works]

Open the Floodgates of Urth!

As I mentioned somewhere else, "Additions, Errata, &cetera:
volume III" is taking shape in the magic mirror.

There's a paperback chapter page citation key which should come
in handy for some.

Terraforming notes re: Mars/Verthandi, Venus/Skuld, Luna/Lune,
and stellar engineering re: Old Sun (as in real engineering answers
to "why insert a black hole into a perfectly good star?") and New Sun
(as in real engineering answers to . . . well, you get the idea).

Something about the early neutrino count from the sun . . . still
researching this one.  Feel free to help if you know anything.

An entry on Kardashev Levels of civilization.

An entry on various Apollos.

And more things of that sort.

=mantis=