I'm now in somewhat of a mood to obsessively read all of the bits of UF that've come out since then. However, I'm not patient enough to go through everything and try to figure out which parts of the UF corpus are actually new, and which are old.

Unfortunately, while there's a very nice page listing the various UF stories by their internal chronology, there's nothing that I can find that lists the stories by publication date.

Is this available anywhere? If not, could it be?

Even in my first obsessive reading, I remember running into this problem. For example, I encountered stories with R-Type in them before I read #include R-type -- presumably these stories were written later, but I couldn't derive that.

Thanks for any help people might have...

- Jonathan
(who has always been obsessive about wanting to read things in publication order...)

No. I never bothered to keep track, and now I have no -idea- what bits predate others (except for the four parts of the Core, and the odd story which has a note with a date on). A rough idea could be gained by looking at the copyright dates, but within years there's generally no telling.

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Best guess? Try the raac archive. I haven't looked, but I'd imagine that the stories are datestamped for when they were u/l'd to the archive.

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Since there wasn't one, I did it myself.

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~lennox/uf-pubs-date.html is a chronological list of the publication dates of all the UF stories, the best I could determine them.

For nineteen stories, I couldn't find any indication of their publication dates. A bunch more of them had their copyright year as their only indicated date. Still, this is a lot better than nothing.

If anyone has any notes or personal files or anything about some of the missing dates, I'd be happy to fill them in.

Also, while I was going through the stories looking for dates, I noticed a few interesting discrepancies between the raac archives and the eyrie-productions.com webpages:

• Several stories, Twilight 1-5 and Dimension Hopping: Not Quite Home, aren't in the archive. Interestingly, though, Twilight 6 is there. (The various stories written in the past month also aren't there, but that's more understandable. Have they appeared on the group yet?)
  
• Leap Years 2 and Hammer Time Book 3 are both listed as Exiles stories on eyrie-productions.com, but appear in the directory The-Golden-Age in the archive.
  
• Two non-story works, the WDF Technical Readout and the filk song Gweep, are in the raac archive, but I couldn't find them anywhere on eyrie-productions.com.
  

I don't know if anyone cares, but these might be worth taking a look at.

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Jonathan Lennox
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