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A book that just came out, _Hanging Out with the Dream King: Conversations with Neil Gaiman and His Collaborators_ by Joseph McCabe (pub. by Fantagraphics Books) has a six-page int…
11 Feb 2005, 17:10
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(I meant to post on this to the other authors thread a while back, but never got around to it; but better late than never.) While not in Wolfe's league, Lawrence Miles is a very i…
06 Jul 2003, 01:22
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Last month, Nigel Price suggested that the "theologies" implicit in Wolfe's fictions aren't necessarily the same as the theology Wolfe believes is true in reality. This is a good …
16 Feb 2003, 14:02
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I have to admit, when I last read TAD (several years ago, at least) it never struck me that Green was lacking in intelligence (or courage, or enterprise). And rereading the confro…
21 Jan 2003, 14:52
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I'm putting in a plug for this recent anthology, which is one of the best original fantasy-sf anthologies I've read. (Most of the stories are original; the few that aren't origina…
11 Dec 2002, 14:22
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I read in the most recent LOCUS that Crowley has sold a book entitled LUCIFER: LORD BYRON'S UNDISCOVERED NOVEL to William Morrow. Anybody know anything about this? It doesn't sou…
17 Nov 2002, 23:57
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I don't know if anyone has ever commented on it, but I for one had been very struck by the similarity between Latro's depression and Severian's in UotNS. You can add to the list TH…
17 Nov 2002, 14:31
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I'd always assumed that the photo of the woman was the photo of Candy that Charlie says he is sending, but looking over the passage again, I have my doubts. Weer shows the photos …
03 Aug 2002, 19:07
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Do we know that the Theanthropos is the "original Conciliator"? It's been a long time since I read the books, but my impression had always been that Severian was the one and only …
11 Jun 2002, 14:01
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[snip] Hmm, I don't actually recall people making these complaints about 5HC in the recent discussion. The most I remember is some people saying they didn't really see the connec…
02 Jun 2002, 14:10
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Though I myself have spoken as though he was, Silkhorn's no saint. He's a good man (at least we're told so, and I suppose the sententious advice he endlessly dispenses means we're…
01 Jun 2002, 14:11
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When I read alga's statement that the inhumi were demons, my first thought was Green = Hell, Blue = Purgatory, Whorl = Heaven. (I'm sure this must have been mentioned before.) Bu…
23 May 2002, 14:30
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It's not just the treatment of the inhumi; the more I think about TBOTSS, the less I like it. To be sure, there's a lot of good stuff in it, and I myself have tried to make excuse…
23 May 2002, 14:30
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David Duffy's recent reference to TBOTSS in connection with 5HC made me realize that TBOTSS is, among other things, about colonization, though I haven't really thought of it that w…
21 May 2002, 02:15
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On p. 255 of the Ace edition, Victor in his cell writes "I know who I believe the Free People to be: I call it Liev's Postpostulate"; but he never says what Liev's Postpostulate is…
10 May 2002, 00:55
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The Kai Lung stories were an early-20th-century series of fantasy stories set in China, written by Ernest Bramah. The characters in them always talk in the flowery, ultra-polite i…
09 May 2002, 18:20
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I don't think the jacket design sucks; I much prefer it to Gahan Wilson's cover art for the tpb, which is completely out of keeping with the book's spirit and is a big fat spoiler,…
09 May 2002, 18:20
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Not the 1911 book, apparently, but THE UNABRIDGED DEVIL'S DICTIONARY (2000) ed. David E. Schultz & S. T. Joshi, iirc. Unfortunately my library's copy is charged out, so I can't ch…
09 May 2002, 14:05
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True; in fact, he does so explicitly, in Marsch's notes (157, Ace pb). But that doesn't necessarily mean that the Annese can actually shapeshift. It could indicate that, just as …
08 May 2002, 13:53
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[snip] But Victor's inability to use tools is not only, or even primarily, a matter of manual dexterity. As Jerry Friedman has pointed out, Victor does a number of things requiri…
04 May 2002, 14:21
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On the subject of laughing... I was rereading "These Are the Jokes" (in CASTLE OF DAYS) the other day, and was reminded that I don't get two of the jokes. In Thecla's joke, what …
22 Apr 2002, 14:14
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Another plug, for another non-sf book. This one plays Wolfe-like games with a thoroughly unreliable narrator, but more accessibly than Wolfe. In one sense it could be said to go …
22 Apr 2002, 14:14
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I'm a bit puzzled by this last statement. According to the Encyclopaedia Judaica, "Orthodox Judaism has, throughout, maintained both a belief in the future resurrection of the dea…
22 Apr 2002, 03:02
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Wolfe said this? I'm quite surprised, even shocked. I'm pretty much of an intentionalist, but (without having reread all the books) this strikes me as a pointless complication wi…
20 Apr 2002, 14:29
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Since there's been interest in the past in finding parallels between Wolfe's works and the Oz books, I thought I'd pass along this tidbit from Wolfe's essay in Contemporary Authors…
19 Apr 2002, 15:04
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I wanted to recommend two books I've read recently which should be of interest to those on this list, although they have nothing else in common aside from very similar titles. One…
16 Apr 2002, 14:10
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Big spoilers, so don't read this if you haven't finished the book. The quote is alluded to on p. 294. This is what I originally thought was going on, too. But thinking it over, …
31 Mar 2002, 15:22
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Has anyone else finished this? Would anyone care to discuss it, either here or elsewhere? (I'm a member of the johncrowleyreaders Yahoo group, but it's small and doesn't seem to …
29 Mar 2002, 04:36
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On pp. 178-80 of John Crowley's new novel THE TRANSLATOR, there is a poem (actually the first draft of a translation of a poem) written by a Russian poet in exile during the Cold W…
12 Mar 2002, 20:28
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I finally got around to (re)reading "The Blue Mouse," and I'm kind of sorry I did: it left an unpleasant taste in my mouth. The story oozes contempt for the Techs, "soldiers" psyc…
07 Mar 2002, 04:58
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Further thoughts, taking off from my last post: If it is indeed the case that the rebels' sole "pitch" to prospective suicide bombers is broadcasting footage of those who have alr…
02 Mar 2002, 03:14
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It's not clear to me why you think the bald man reciting the Lord's Prayer is Wolfe, or even why you think Wolfe approves of the rebellion. Among other things, the bald man is a s…
31 Jan 2002, 15:14
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I know this is old news by now, but I was waiting until I could check the magazine (F & SF, Oct/Nov 2001) out of my library to write; and then I was waiting until Ranjit re-establi…
29 Jan 2002, 18:20
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On the subject of new, or at least newish, Wolfe stories, there's a story by Wolfe entitled "Pocketsful of Diamonds" which I don't recall seeing discussed here; it was published in…
17 Oct 2001, 22:16
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Wolfe has a story in the Dec. 2001 REALMS OF FANTASY entitled "Queen." It's a minor story, and only a little over two pages long, but is of interest as his most specifically Catho…
11 Oct 2001, 21:51
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I haven't seen Bladerunner, but I agree that, despite Haley Joel Osment's amazing performance on the knife-edge between machine and human, A.I. didn't have anything profound to say…
26 Aug 2001, 23:12
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Anybody seen this? Anybody have any thoughts about it? My excuse for bringing it up here, aside from its being an sf movie and loosely based on an Aldiss story, is that it strike…
20 Aug 2001, 21:40
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The subject line above is, or would have been, the title of the sequel. In the Fall 1996 issue of _The Review of Contemporary Fiction_, along with a short interview with Delany an…
31 Jul 2001, 15:42
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I recently checked a collection of essays on Jack Vance, which was published last year in Britain, out of the library. One of the essays is by Gene Wolfe, entitled "The Living Ear…
30 Jul 2001, 23:46
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While digging through some of my old, packed-away books, I came upon an anthology entitled THE DRABBLE PROJECT (ed. Rob Meades and David B. Wake). This is a collection of one hundr…
26 Jul 2001, 21:38
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-----Original Message----- This doesn't ring a bell with me, and I've read Borges' collected stories (though it could have just slipped my mind). The closest thing to it I can …
20 Jul 2001, 20:38
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I was looking over the section where this book appears (211-12, Harper hc) and I have an observation and a question. First, the observation: the book is introduced with the senten…
09 Jul 2001, 20:37
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I was rereading the "Gold" chapter of PEACE, and in the light of the recent discussion of RttW, a disturbing suspicion came to me. Briefly, I suspect that the conversations betwee…
09 Jul 2001, 16:19
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While thumbing through RttW, I came across a passage in which Narr notes he has made a mistake, but says he won't correct it, for various reasons, concluding, "No, there really are…
21 Jun 2001, 23:24
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Just as a digression, I've always wondered whether those really do any good. A lot of books with such disclaimers contain charaters whose "resemblance to persons living or dead" is…
20 Jun 2001, 21:46
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It wasn't originally my term, and it wasn't a term I would have applied on my own. And I agree the sections aren't literally fanfic. But mantis used the term, iirc, to indicate …
19 Jun 2001, 20:51
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I missed something here: the third-person account of "Horn's" final meeting with Remora is based not on "Horn's" recollections but on Remora's testimony. This raises a tough quest…
18 Jun 2001, 20:29
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With all the talk about the difficulty of determining the "true facts" behind the narrative(s) of TBOTSS, I thought I'd try and determine just what are the textual "components" of …
15 Jun 2001, 14:21
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As mantis has pointed out (great catch! It never occurred to me to check) Amanda Ros does indeed exist. In fact, she has somewhat of a reputation among connosieurs of bad writing…
13 Jun 2001, 15:47
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I was doing some surfing the other day, and I came across a number of sites, and pieces of info, of interest to fans of HDM. 1) There is a site -- http://www.geocities.com/torre_d…
13 Jun 2001, 09:48
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