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No; you're right, Mantis - if the inhumi "fall" from the lagrange point between Green and Blue, then they're essentially going to hit Blue's atmosphere with speed on the order of e…
06 Sep 2000, 07:19
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Do you refer to the Bruce Pennington covers of the New Sun books, John, as used on the UK editions (paperback at least)? It's strange because for me these absolutely define how I s…
04 Sep 2000, 11:13
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Me neither, I'm ashamed to say - but Robert is quite right that the muddled "explanation" seems to be a tip-off from Wolfe that all is not quite what it seems. Al…
31 Aug 2000, 07:14
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See also Mad Max! Al . *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.…
22 Aug 2000, 12:36
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Fascinating - and given the general permeation of Dutch culture by things maritime, more than believable. Al *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.…
19 Apr 2000, 07:23
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another joke in OBW: When one of the sailors from Dorp (the community with a Dutch-type feel to it) meets Horn and Seawrack, he addresses Seawrack as "mer-frau" (ie sea-lady). I…
17 Apr 2000, 12:32
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Alex: How does Mucor's possession ability work? Maybe I missed something (very likely) but it seems hard to rationalise her talent with an underlying SF-nal explanation, in the us…
21 Jan 2000, 18:02
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Richard: He's supposed to have a new novel out sometime - the last I heard was that it was to be called Appleseed. The thing with Clute is (for me anyway), just when I'm ready to…
12 Nov 1999, 08:34
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David, in my reply to my query: Many thanks for digging that up. Yes - he's obviously talking about the gap between Severian and Typhon rather than the era of the Urth. I must hav…
15 Oct 1999, 07:09
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"Wijzer" itself means pointer (according to my dictionary it also means the hand of a clock). I think it can also mean guide, as in the kind of leaflet you get in museums, but I'm …
13 Oct 1999, 09:21
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So where does GW live? Is it Chicago? Funnily enough, (because I only noticed it yesterday) in the Fifth Head of Cerberus, he mentions a book called Monday or Tuesday, leaning aga…
25 Sep 1999, 10:00
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Mantis: someone had a theory recently (it was covered in New Scientist) that neutron stars might be responsible for the left-handedness of life here, and - by extension - through…
17 May 1999, 12:51
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Robert: there's a nice Joe Haldeman short story which exploits the idea of incompatible biochemistries - I think it's in his last collection, whatever it was called. It's interes…
05 May 1999, 15:20
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mantis: Linda Nagata's recent novel Vast, (which I thought was terrific) has ships limited to 0.4 c (so only marginal relativistic effects) and no ftl communications. As the immor…
03 May 1999, 08:15
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I read in the new Locus that there's a new short story collection coming out - Strange Cargo, I think the title was. Don't remember when it was scheduled for. Al(igator) *This is…
09 Apr 1999, 07:59
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Rostrum: I found Claw of the Conciliator here, without the overlaid text of the cover: http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine/ellison/33/bruce1.htm (a lovely scan by the way) and…
25 Nov 1998, 08:23
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alga: Yes, that's ages to wait... What's the betting it'll turn into a tetrology like TBOTNS? (According to the Castle of the Otter, the planned third and final volume got too la…
24 Nov 1998, 09:42
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permission to speak... I don't know if this was a phenomenon unique to British readers of the book, but I couldn't read "Pike" without thinking of Private Pike from Dad's Army, pr…
07 Sep 1998, 13:35
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Peter: actually, any two orbiting point masses will always have five lagrangian points around them; the one between them (exactly in the middle for equal masses) is L1. L1 isn't…
13 Jul 1998, 13:00
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Wombat: it didn't seem long enough to me either - not just from the point of view of how rundown everything was, but how comprehensively the origins of the Whorl had been forgotte…
03 Sep 1997, 07:29
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Dear all I enjoyed Wolfe's remarks and I'm glad to see he wasn't giving too much away. Not so much a dumb question, as a dumb observation, but something which bothered me slightl…
14 Jul 1997, 08:18
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Have to 'fess up and admit I wrote the above, not DL - but I agree that the only way it'd make sense is if the chronology's as you suggest above. al…
03 Jul 1997, 08:11
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Hello I've just joined this list having finished Exodus, finally - what a great sequence it was, and now I'm itching to reread the New Sun for the umpteenth time. Like I suspect …
01 Jul 1997, 13:40
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