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I really enjoyed the Alexandria Quartet. He gives each of the four books such a different voice and appetite. Which one are you on? I hadn't made an Aickman connection, but I can s…
16 Nov 2017, 15:08
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12 Nov 2014, 21:48
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From one lurker to another, I also say welcome. One of my favorite reasons to read this list is following the tangents and other authors whose work comes up. I finally got around …
12 Sep 2013, 13:02
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Thanks for the write-up. Wish I'd made it down there! One more photo my friends took: http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/20130518-_5185174.jpg…
20 May 2013, 20:21
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It evokes more of a texture than a color to me. Not that I wanted my kiddie memories at the feed store associated with sensual moments between a woman's legs. Thanks, guys.…
07 May 2013, 02:10
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I read it as "Ih-NEAR-ay." Let's play with the idea that pronunciations have changed over the millenia!…
03 May 2013, 17:16
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I have clear evidence that he's not from Sainte Croix at all, but originates from Sainte Anne. Just look at his reliance on teleprompters!…
30 Apr 2013, 16:53
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Mmm, like the Kate Bush song "Dreamtime"? "Many an Aborigine's mistaken for a tree/'til you near him on the motorway/the tree begins to breathe" Pardon my digression, Allan…
07 Apr 2013, 20:27
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Thanks for mentioning this! As I'm in Oakland (45 minutes away) I will do my very best to get down there and cheer our man on.…
06 Feb 2013, 18:00
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Must be that Autotheoanthropos you folks bring up at times.…
21 Nov 2012, 14:46
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Regarding the "wrong predictions," I wonder if Wolfe was trolling his readers, hoping to get them off their rears. I think he wrote them to perturb current readers, not to accurate…
27 Jul 2012, 17:59
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For some reason, I'm reminded both the of the computer in "The Eyeflash Miracles" and the dwarf chessplayer in...argh, can't remember the title, and I loaned my friend the antholog…
16 Apr 2012, 01:11
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03 Apr 2012, 03:55
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Ah, right--I remember this from Elijah Baley in _The Caves of Steel_, before he became a stinking robo-sympathizer. Excellent points. I remember wondering if Asimov was making a co…
29 Mar 2012, 01:16
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Ver-tumnus seducing Pomona? This must be before he moved to Narnia. I guess you could say he was "fauning" all over her, eh?…
06 Nov 2011, 23:19
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Just wanted to quickly thank you, Craig, for mentioning this show. It's become my four-year-old daughter's favorite, and is in fact looked forward to by the whole family.…
19 Sep 2011, 06:06
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I love to hate Gormentghast's Steerpike. Boo, hiss!…
05 Aug 2011, 18:10
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I appreciate the Google Alerts; thanks for making them happen! This spurred me to once again check my local library, which is pretty good about keeping up with Wolfe stuff--and the…
26 Apr 2011, 00:42
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I adored Lolita and Ada, but haven't yet read Pale Fire or anything else by Nabakov. Oh, except for those lectures where he rips into Dostoyevsky and praises Tolstoy. I haven't re…
13 Apr 2011, 23:01
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Another example which leaps to mind is _The Wizard Knight_'s Tower of Glas. Seems like a recurring theme indeed; perhaps you're on to something, Lee!…
11 Aug 2010, 17:03
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It's a wonderful, evocative place, "off topic a little." Your bringing up The Last Temptation of Christ has reminded me of Judee Sill's often-covered "Jesus Was A Cross-Maker": htt…
11 Jun 2010, 23:55
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He pretty much has. The first three volumes of bitter nearly-dead Twain invective are due out in November, after honoring his wish that they not be published until 100 years after …
24 May 2010, 17:50
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Heh, you people. But no, "are these stories set in the same universe" has interesting implications: mainly, are the rules the same.…
11 May 2010, 20:52
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I remember that one fondly, but even more so--D'Aulaire's "Norse Gods and Giants"...or I think it's been re-titled "Book of Norse Myths" Andrew Lang's color fairy books are good s…
22 Mar 2010, 15:43
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That was fun, Greg. Thanks for sharing your music.…
24 Jan 2010, 04:33
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That's great to hear, Roy, and his Forward cracks me up!…
29 Oct 2009, 19:26
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Yes, I often make that slip, too. When I first read "Woldercan", the image of a spacestation "tin can" sprung to mind. But then I started reading "Woldercon", imagining a Wolfe-the…
14 Sep 2009, 23:50
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Good fun, nonetheless :)…
14 Sep 2009, 15:31
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Some options: Cassie is crazy. Woldercan is where you go when you die. Cassie is dead. Woldercan's time disjunction with Earth allows her to find Reis, maybe. CLONES…
11 Sep 2009, 18:07
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Hmm -- isn't there some stuff about time progressing at a different rate on Woldercan? Letters arriving before they're sent, etc. Maybe Wolfe meant she's trying to find a past Reis…
09 Sep 2009, 23:29
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Ah, that *does* help me shed a bit of the "wtf" feeling that came over me at the end of my non-analytic reading of AEG. There are certainly other explanations, but this one is …
09 Sep 2009, 14:47
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That's fun, Don. My favorite Neil representation has to be Eddie Campbell's, in _King Bacchus_, where Neil passes out due to an excess of disturbing occultism and thick smoke from …
23 Aug 2009, 06:15
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I think the functional questions are 1) does using a split infinitive allow more rhetorical oomph, and if so, 2) will the elegance and flash it affords sufficiently dazzle all but …
31 Jul 2009, 01:01
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Nah, I mean a spot on Facebook for folks from this list to find each other.…
02 May 2009, 15:20
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Maybe someone should start an "Urth List" group.…
02 May 2009, 07:00
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I should ask my sister the youth librarian what she thinks. She's pretty much of the, "hey, if it gets them to read, it's okay" school when it comes to sex and swashbuckling in n…
20 Apr 2009, 14:31
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I was going to postpone commenting on this for a couple of days while I finish the book, but I can't help myself. So far, I'm thinking that any and all "borrowings" fit nicely i…
15 Apr 2009, 07:00
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Interesting write-up, Jon. Although I found a fun blend of salty adventure and mystery in Pirate Freedom, I can sympathize with your finding it dry for a pirate story and point…
15 Apr 2009, 04:19
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Thanks, Fernando -- it's always fun to hear a voice and have an author become a bit more of a real person in my mind! My favorite part was how he described Chesterson. I've only…
31 Mar 2009, 14:58
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On Tue Mar 17 9:31 , crushtv at gmail.com sent: [snip] Okay, thank you James. I'll look for that when I get there. On Tue Mar 17 10:08 , brunians at brunians.org sent: I tried …
17 Mar 2009, 18:43
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Ah, very interesting. I guess I could see that. Are those quotes stashed in V for Vendetta someplace, or are you saying that they apply and illustrate its points? I still find…
17 Mar 2009, 16:30
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I'm surely not as familiar with Wolfe's work as some of the rest of you. But I'm having trouble coming up with examples from Wolfe's stories which relate directly or indirectly…
17 Mar 2009, 15:58
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I think the sequence where V **SPOILERS!** breaks down Evey with all the mindgames isn't just about opposing the British Fascism of the comic's alternate future, but about pers…
17 Mar 2009, 06:54
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I'm not out your way, but I wish you a fine reading!…
05 Mar 2009, 16:16
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While we're semi-off-topic and talking about music, I thought I'd mention that Juana Molina is playing at the Great American Music Hall in SF tonight: http://www.myspace.com/juanam…
14 Feb 2009, 00:13
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Neat shirt! Aw, I saw that they were playing in SF not long ago and gave it a miss due to baby-related schedule compression...but now I think I might have to make sure I catch them…
13 Feb 2009, 19:45
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Sounds like fun to me too, although I haven't read the Suns Long or Short yet myself. On Fri Feb 13 10:11 , "Son of Witz" sent:…
13 Feb 2009, 18:59
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Makes me think of the ravens in The Hobbit, and the few Dwarves and Dalemen who remembered the ravenspeak. I guess it goes back to Odin's Hugin and Munin: http://en.wikipedia.or…
08 Jan 2009, 00:30
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J. Crowley sounds great! thanks for another book recommendation, folks. I also had a couple of false starts with Gravity's Rainbow, but like so many folks, when I finally got int…
18 Dec 2008, 01:00
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Heh, I loved NGE too, but I'm pretty sure that the creator's use of Judeo-Christian imagery and reference was mostly for effect and for their alien-ness to his audience. Doesn't…
13 Dec 2008, 01:18
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