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If you ever see a book called RUNTS OF 61 CYGNI C, run!!!. One of the amusements at SF cons is reading excruciatingly bad passages from books while the audience bid money for you …
20 Apr 2003, 06:15
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http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_747664.html?menu=…
07 Feb 2003, 18:28
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C S Lewis, PERELANDRA, first chapter somewhere As to my intense wish never to come into contact with the eldila myself, I am not sure whether I can make you understand it. It …
20 Jan 2003, 17:17
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The point is, you can, just about, write CF and not be Christian. In the same way that you can, just about, be a Catholic and not be Christian. :) OK, not literally. But …
17 Jan 2003, 19:09
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also hartshorn Apostolou & Martin H. Greenberg, Dembner 1987; tr. by James B. Harris…
31 Oct 2002, 17:58
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I obtain this from fictiomags hartshorn…
31 Oct 2002, 17:36
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The most tremendous modern fictional work based on Gnosticism is A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS - and I *don't* think Wolfe derived much from this incredibly savage and *deeply* pessimistic…
28 Oct 2002, 17:20
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IMHO the real root is the nursery/toy/steadfast tin solder vibe seen well in "The War Beneath The Tree". As I reflect, it seems to me that all Wolfe's artificial people- from the…
26 Sep 2002, 19:23
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----- Original Message ----- I think I got the essence of the Silk/Hyacinth relationship right. It was the ultimate mutually destructive love, and that was its point. harts…
13 Jul 2002, 16:42
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Hmm!! You are right. Apologies. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Stephanides" <adamsteph at earthlink.net> To: <urth at urth.net> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 4:49 PM Sub…
12 Jun 2002, 17:00
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----- Original Message ----- Of course not: but the idea was a hell of a lot more novel and powerful then than it is now. I think there is also a cross-influence from Clark Ashto…
20 May 2002, 16:57
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I have been cudgelling my mind. Possibly APOCALYPSES, yes. Possibly one of the Epiktistes stories. Knowing RAL he would have had a whole production-line going, Irish Blarny t…
07 May 2002, 22:14
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----- Original Message ----- A Lafferty story?????…
07 May 2002, 21:45
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----- Original Message ----- But Catholicism is full of nods toward "literal Hindu" ideas. But I should not say "Hindu", but rather "Indo-European" - since the legend stream tha…
19 Apr 2002, 19:59
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"Happy" is a rather childish descriptor. I don't mean that as a put-down: only that it may be often rightly used to describe children, but rarely rightly used to describe adults. …
11 Apr 2002, 18:17
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----- Original Message ----- Almost, your passion convinces me. There is a bit in the BOTNS where S is walking among the great trees in his way to the north, and he wonders wheth…
30 Mar 2002, 09:44
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----- Original Message ----- No mention. A good equation to remember for astrogation is gy = c If you accelerate at 1 gravity for 1 year you reach the speed of light - or would…
26 Mar 2002, 12:51
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----- Original Message ----- It flew in a circle, as Pas/Typhon intended. The life forms of Blue are edible to those of Urth, and vica-versa. On a galactic scale this is 99.99 …
25 Mar 2002, 18:24
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I suspect this will grieve Wolfe . . . ----- Original Message -----…
20 Mar 2002, 22:07
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http://home.clara.net/andywrobertson/lamorak.html A while back on the Urth net this mystical Christian writer was mentioned. I have posted one of his poems, my favorite, in case y…
16 Mar 2002, 12:11
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----- Original Message ----- 1) Where were these? I do not recall them. 2) (on a different subject) Does anyone on the list recall the Dr Dolittle stories? I have some tantal…
13 Mar 2002, 22:56
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----- Original Message ----- I will chase this up :-) So? "That was before they got it irrigated" as old Rudesind says. The word "irrigated" was what made me think of dumpin…
01 Mar 2002, 07:43
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----- Original Message ----- Surely the fact that Silk is an analog of Odin must have been mentioned here? Black bird. One eye. Staff. I know that I hung in the windtorn tr…
24 Feb 2002, 20:15
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----- Original Message ----- Yes, a fine story. Mahes was one of the Egyptian gods http://www.touregypt.net/godsofegypt/mahes.htm Mahes Other Names: similar to the Furies o…
23 Feb 2002, 11:20
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Thus it is, I am told . . . hartshorn ----- Original Message -----…
12 Feb 2002, 08:31
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----- Original Message ----- Uh, I thought I said that ....... No, we are only arguing about the words here. The central point of this story is the need to build an actual m…
10 Feb 2002, 22:06
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----- Original Message ----- Exactly - as I read the story. This is Clio's act of fulfulling and affirming the trust her followers have placed in her. For **her** side - the win…
10 Feb 2002, 20:27
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----- Original Message ----- Basically, yes. But it is not the fact that she kills someone. The real fight is a moral one, like all real fights. It is the fight to build and ma…
10 Feb 2002, 05:35
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----- Original Message ----- Interesting. I note one thing. Wright casually uses the term "white" for coloniser, but what is notable about TFHOC is that the colonised "abos" su…
09 Feb 2002, 12:29
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----- Original Message ----- or love . . . now, come to think of it the whole business of the inhumi is about "the healing power of love", isn' it? If people stop hating the inh…
07 Feb 2002, 11:40
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----- Original Message ----- <snip> Hyacinth is not a traanssexual, but she is such an artificial woman that your idea is perhaps symbolically true. And actually, she is not a…
06 Feb 2002, 21:59
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----- Original Message ----- While you are right, I think you are looking at the etherial symbolism and missing the earthy basics of his story. What are wars fought for? Wars …
03 Feb 2002, 15:21
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and . . . hartshorn ----- Original Message -----…
03 Feb 2002, 13:12
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And more ...... hartshorn ----- Original Message ----- From: gvgfsf at aol.com To: fictionmags at yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 1:06 AM Subject: [fictionmags…
03 Feb 2002, 08:03
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and yet earlier ones . . . hartshorn ----- Original Message -----…
02 Feb 2002, 16:02
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I am still thinking about your fasinating idea about the trees eating and recombining with Horn in the pit. I am not convinced, quite, but I agree that Horn's time in the pit was …
30 Jan 2002, 13:10
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Look, I think you are being too literal. The Blue Planet/ Green Planet dichotomy surely goes back to THE FIFTH HEAD OF CERBERUS In that story also travel to the Green planet from…
02 Jan 2002, 13:49
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Hello, board members. I recently came across an essay by Gene Wolfe, explaining what The Lord Of The Rings meant to him. The essay is relevant to Wolfe's own beliefs and faith. …
02 Jan 2002, 00:33
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Hello, and are Urth and The Whorl still turning? Recently INERZONE published an essay by Gene Wolfe, explaining what The Lord Of The Rings meant to him. I was very impressed …
31 Dec 2001, 18:38
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----- Original Message ----- An awfully crude queston. When Marsh remarks that the boy is "uncut" and *therefore* when he was with the girl, would "bind", or something like that …
22 Apr 2001, 12:28
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