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The Librarian gets angry if you call him a monkey. Oook. Adam…
07 Jul 2010, 03:10
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Was that the one with the giant with a ship for a head, and the magic black beans, and the boy fishing for the Sun? Adam…
06 Jul 2010, 22:59
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Well, er.... http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/alsj-LEVA.html "The inner surface of the polysulfone sun visor has a gold coating which provides protection against light and reduces he…
02 Jul 2010, 18:49
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WORST. COCKTAIL. EVAR. Adam…
02 Jul 2010, 18:30
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Rudesind's painting does not match any of the actual Apollo images I could find, when I went looking a few years ago. Adam…
01 Jul 2010, 03:01
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Yes, Ultan is a curator. And like some other candidates, Ultan's eyes are obscured. I'm only working the Oook angle here. Oook In Oz: A Radical Reinterpretation of the Book of t…
30 Jun 2010, 03:58
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Bent, long arms, red hair, monkey^Wape-like. Well, obviously Inire's also Master Ultan. Since he's clearly the Librarian. Obviously, too, time travel is required to have him app…
28 Jun 2010, 19:13
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If you've read the other parts, then you know that cloning isn't the only way to get confusion between the plural and singular. Adam…
25 Jun 2010, 01:37
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Did you read the novella standalone, as it appears in _Best Of_, or as part of the collection of three novellas published as _Fifth Head_? Adam…
24 Jun 2010, 12:49
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Here's my theory. There's probably a better reason it's wrong than my Oz theory. The "claw" is just a flaw at the heart of the jewel. The thorn Severian finds on the shore is ju…
22 Jun 2010, 20:06
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The same one from the Toy Theater? Perhaps Hethor is pulling Agia's strings. Adam…
18 Jun 2010, 23:02
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She's a werewolf. I argue purely from textual probabilities. Adam…
18 Jun 2010, 22:28
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Given the earlier confusion about the sun and the shoulder, I want to go out on a limb here and invoke something else Wolfe is known to have read and liked, and say that it is clea…
11 Jun 2010, 23:07
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Invented earlier than that....in 1970 or so (at least, those are the first lectures) by John Horton Conway, whom you may know from the mathematical recreation "The Game Of Life". …
11 Jun 2010, 00:03
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That's not a swordfish in your pocket? Then I guess you ARE happy to see me. Adam…
07 Jun 2010, 01:02
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TEETH! Answer's always "teeth." Well, sometimes it's "swordfish." Adam…
07 Jun 2010, 00:59
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Hell, even I do this. I mean, at least now that I'm not working from home. Adam…
05 Jun 2010, 15:59
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Along this line of reasoning lies _A Deepness In The Sky_, with horrible spider-monsters whose tales are told as if they were hobbits. Adam…
04 Jun 2010, 13:10
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The scene with the plane in the Garden Of Time does it for me. Adam…
04 Jun 2010, 01:49
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"Bite me." Adam P.S. Why are my teeth sore?…
21 May 2010, 03:02
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Awww, c'mon, Dan'l. Have a heart! Adam…
19 May 2010, 22:31
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he mean it to be God (probably) or is he speaking more of the Hierogrammates My interpretation of the subtext of the Sun series is this- There is not a vast, empty gap between hum…
18 May 2010, 01:13
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While poking around various Frazetta illustrations, I chanced to find myself reading for the first time in nearly three decades _A Princess Of Mars_. Woola the Martian Hound rem…
11 May 2010, 04:35
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Uh, guys? Maybe there *is* a Geek Comic reference going on. Does no one else remember Ted Griffin? Dilbert from, oh, 1995 or so: Dilbert needs approval for some sort of purchas…
21 Apr 2010, 01:44
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Does it still hold up? My wife asked me last night, and I don't know, having not revisited it in a couple decades, and I haven't dug it out yet. Adam…
23 Mar 2010, 03:26
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My objection is that down this road lies the Vernor Vinge madness of the cheery little hobbit-type aliens with the gootfy names actually turning out to be GROTESQUE SPACE SPIDERS.…
12 Jan 2010, 01:52
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And so Jeff Wilson was torn limb from limb by an angry mob of string theorists. Adam…
19 Dec 2009, 15:59
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Brunians so fat, when he sit around the house, he sit AROUND the house! Oh snap! Adam…
19 Dec 2009, 15:58
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The question is who's to be master, that's all. Adam…
19 Dec 2009, 00:35
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Paging Father Brown. Seriously: it's not like Wolfe hasn't told us often enough that we should read Chesterton. I'm finally doing so, and, yeah, you can see an awful lot of ver…
19 Dec 2009, 00:33
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That's the filioque clause? I thought it was the Holy Spirit. Or maybe ectoplasm. Adam…
19 Dec 2009, 00:29
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Maybe this is how the gold got radioactive in the first place. It's another time loop! Nightgaunts, I believe. Although these seem to do a bit more than clutch and fly and tickl…
24 Nov 2009, 14:16
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Oh, all right, if you insist. I started from "potato/po-tah-toe", which is to say, one man's pun is another's Dantean contrapasso. Only then I got to thinking about _The Waste La…
24 Nov 2009, 14:15
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Well, Chesterton would be a big fat dude with a cloak and a sword cane. Vance, I dunno. Adam…
24 Nov 2009, 04:58
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Potato/dried tuber. Adam…
23 Nov 2009, 13:59
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It strikes me that we could probably learn a lot if there were some way to get everything in Wolfe that seems obvious to some reader and pile all of those together in one place. F…
22 Nov 2009, 02:26
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Mister Typhon on lines three and seven for you. Adam…
07 Oct 2009, 14:06
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I don't think _A Case of Conscience_ is at ALL ambiguous. I also think it started out promising and then went in precisely the least interesting direction it could have gone. N…
22 Sep 2009, 21:07
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To apply a slightly different crude overgeneralization: if you're making a priest a major figure, then there's presumably a *reason* for that choice, and that reason has someth…
22 Sep 2009, 15:39
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Dude, SPOILER WARNING! Adam…
21 Sep 2009, 20:13
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Anyone else here read _The Rise of Endymion_ ? Those of you who have will know why the time-loop is making me think of it. Adam…
21 Sep 2009, 16:49
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O GAWD MY WIFE IS A WEREWOLF! Adam…
19 Sep 2009, 20:20
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*THAT* part is easy. That'd be "fey glamour," and it'd be basically what Gideon Chase (who, in my opinion, is a Woldercan changeling) does. I think we have much firmer eviden…
17 Sep 2009, 11:13
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Outraging logicians has never been a particularly good motivator for me. I must be doing it wrong. Adam…
23 Jul 2009, 15:18
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I respect Gene Wolfe a great deal, but he's JUST PLAIN WRONG on this one. Adam…
19 Jul 2009, 03:13
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My head asplode. I need to reread the Bierce, but I don't think I disagree. Adam…
02 Jun 2009, 00:49
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Oh, heh, there's an Oreb thing in there too: "All we wanna do is eat your brains We're not unreasonable. I mean, no one's gonna eat your eyes." Adam…
20 May 2009, 22:28
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Hey! This is now, that will be then! Not people? Why am I thinking of the Jonathan Coulton song, "Re: Your Brains" ? "I'm not a monster, Tom.... Well, technically I am. I g…
20 May 2009, 22:26
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Yeah. My own position is that downloading media illegally is some-kind-of- bad (me, I still prefer to buy physical CDs and then rip them to iTunes, so that I have unprotected f…
20 May 2009, 21:44
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Oooh, ooh, I've just--as a Southerner myself--*got* to take a crack at this one: "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." Adam…
20 May 2009, 21:31
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