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aaron writes: Vance can be very very good, when he takes himself seriously. I first read him as a kid: my only access to SF books was my local library and the only Vance book…
05 Jun 2007, 07:12
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes writes: Only in the same limited sense that Middle-Earth is "Christian." There is no Christ, no Theoanthropos. Yes, I agree with your other points (inde…
17 Apr 2007, 18:15
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http://home.clara.net/andywrobertson/wolfemountains.html In case any new listers have not read it…
17 Apr 2007, 08:08
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don doggett writes: I'm thinking especially Not realy. Michael here is not precisely a Christian figure in a christian universe: rather he's a being of a certain rank, in a …
17 Apr 2007, 07:47
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don doggett writes: Envyenvyenvy - hartshorn (twiddling thums waiting for Amazon) http://www.thenightland.co.uk 01273-488272 / 0777-214-9545…
15 Apr 2007, 07:50
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Jesper Svedberg writes: I had clean forgotten that story, it does http://www.thenightland.co.uk 01273-488272 / 0777-214-9545…
13 Apr 2007, 11:31
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Matthew Groves writes: An athiest whose beliefs illuminated his writing as thoroughly and wisely as Wolfe's christianity illuminates his. Very different from Wolfe in ever…
13 Apr 2007, 11:09
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Transentient writes: I agree. It's a remarkably good movie, and a skillful deconstruction of the book. However . . . I wonder if any one has recorded Wolfe's reaction to th…
13 Apr 2007, 11:03
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Recursive Loop writes: Um, what page????…
08 Apr 2007, 16:33
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Nicholas Gevers writes: I suspect there is quite an overlap between the two fandoms. :-)…
08 Apr 2007, 10:07
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Recursive Loop writes: Joy, joy of your purchase :-)…
13 Mar 2007, 21:04
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David Duffy writes: He wrote a handful of archetypically beautiful stories The Enchanted Village Dormant The Monster The Sound GUilty? No. You are perceiving (ragged) …
08 Sep 2006, 23:10
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Jesper Svedberg writes: It certainly is worth looking at. ((My pronouncements have been unjustifiably gnomic and absolute. You must excuse me - I'm terribly busy.)) But …
07 Sep 2006, 22:18
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Jesper Svedberg writes: I'd be astonished if Wolfe had not read Van Vogt. I cannot say if any of VV's work was an inspiration to Wolfe, but I think that merely setting it i…
07 Sep 2006, 18:03
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Russell Wodell writes: EMPIRE OF THE ATOM. Gorgeous tripe from AEVV, but having read it recently I doubt there's a close link: the style is all wrong, and VV is really wri…
07 Sep 2006, 07:49
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Macronaut writes: Or perhaps it was the Yellow Sign ??? http://www.thenightland.co.uk 01273-488272 / 0777-214-9545…
27 Jul 2006, 17:25
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Stanislaus writes: Indeed, but it's actually by the well-known UK fan Nick Lowe. I was in the audience at Fencon (Cambridge 1982) when it was first given - time flies.…
14 Jun 2006, 19:10
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes writes: Google "clench racing Donaldson" for an (unfair) titter at his expence…
10 Jun 2006, 07:05
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Duncan Truter writes: In the visionary section at the end of the Long Sun books, the Matachin Tower is described as "the Malacic Transport" or some such thing. I can't rememb…
05 May 2006, 15:37
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b sharp writes: "Violet eyes" is just a poetic way of saying dark blue eyes. Blue eyes are not found among animals, only among humans. But "blue-eyed" also has poetic con…
02 May 2006, 19:43
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S The Ship (in UOTNS) does travel FTL and does go back and forth in time (the two things being the same). News including divine messages and divine messengers do take this r…
07 Apr 2006, 19:39
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thalassocrat at nym.hush.com writes: remember gy = c One g for one year = speed of light one thousandth g would take a while hartshorn…
06 Apr 2006, 06:38
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David F. Driscoll writes: Interesting catch. I do wonder if Wolfe would not have flagged such a referent a bit more explicitly - but it might be the case.…
12 Mar 2006, 09:03
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<----------- From "The Norsemen" by H.A. Guerber The Giants' Ship A North Frisian tradition relates that the giants possessed a colossal ship, called Mannigfual, which cons…
03 Feb 2006, 19:54
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Roy C. Lackey writes: What's Because the Angeloi had started higher, and had descended of their own will, to kill Ymir? Because their actions in so doing shaped and created …
13 Dec 2005, 08:40
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don doggett writes: I don't believe this is the case in any of Wolfe's fictional universes. Humans may be special, but so are the Neighbours. Everyone is special. I susp…
10 Dec 2005, 09:22
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James Wynn writes: . We keep talking about blood, but what about semen? The (female) Aelf are even more eager to fuck than to give blood, and presumably semen would be even…
07 Dec 2005, 08:48
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Roy C. Lackey writes: Worship isn't primarily a matter of seeking supernatural reward.…
05 Dec 2005, 08:21
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Roy C. Lackey writes: All good questions. Abel's stint as TGK, in my opinion, took place while he was in Skai - between THE KNIGHT and THE WIZARD. I suspect it was just …
01 Dec 2005, 20:57
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Roy C. Lackey writes: Abel was THE GREEN KNIGHT - the guy who turned up at Camelot and challenged Arthur's knights to the Beheading Game Gawain was the knight who took up …
01 Dec 2005, 11:04
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Roy C. Lackey writes: Abel was the Green Knight, IIRC. Gawain gets let off with a nick on the neck because he behaves honorably even though the supernatural scales are weighe…
01 Dec 2005, 09:00
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David DiGiacomo writes: Abel is (specifically) one of the Einherjar, the chosen slain, who are gathered in Valhalla (or the Lady's hall Forsetti) ready for the last fight a…
28 Nov 2005, 08:58
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This is a good post, and you diagram Art's development well, but you are wrong if you think the pattern of pagan society did not include obligation down as well as up. The feud…
25 Nov 2005, 08:02
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transentient writes: http://home.clara.net/andywrobertson/wolfemountains.html Yup.…
23 Nov 2005, 17:15
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Roy C. Lackey writes: Climbing down to Niflheim and fighting the dragons counts as "nothing???" Able is a knight not a saint Here 'tis http://home.clara.net/andywrob…
27 Oct 2005, 07:55
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Bob Miller writes: Fine information, Bob. I think the real problem some suffer in understanding Abel and Idunn and other imperfect people is that we have no modern analog…
26 Oct 2005, 19:21
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Seth Lombardi writes: What you say makes sense, but what of the men and women in Midgarthyr who show unqualified heroism: especially Idunn? Is she also so flawed, and the V…
25 Oct 2005, 20:56
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The people of the Commonwealth do look like contemporary south Americans. There's a largely European upper class (some of whom have pale/blond hair and blue eyes), a lower class…
18 Jun 2005, 00:50
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Hmpf MacSlow writes: Elric.…
16 Jun 2005, 13:56
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Sarah Dorrance-Minch writes: He perpetrates filks? This is problematic ;-)…
11 Jun 2005, 01:29
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Sarah Dorrance-Minch writes: Welcome: Guillaume of Dublin (from the Far Isles) here :-) Now, I haven't read ANY Brust: is he good??? Is he, uh, Wolfey? hartsho…
07 Jun 2005, 23:48
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harlekin at earthlink.net writes: To be honest: I don't think so. Derleth's deomachy simply echoes an hundred religions, and Wolfe gets independent input from religions…
04 Jun 2005, 00:21
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We know Wolfe likes Lovecraft (vide the fake Necronomicon in PEACE) but despite that I don't agree this Skai is in any way related.…
03 Jun 2005, 11:57
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pthwndxrclzp writes: Much like Cthulhu's. They have half-human submarine servitors; they control dreams; they will rise in the last days to take the world. But more to the …
03 Jun 2005, 09:36
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nastler writes: I honestly don't think there is much direct reference. However, Lovecraft's "Old Ones" were really non-supernatural alien entities of such power that they coul…
03 Jun 2005, 05:50
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No, but I will Tolkien http://home.clara.net/andywrobertson/wolfemountains.html…
15 Apr 2005, 16:14
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There is that passage where Severian remarks the existence of the angels (creatures of the rank of Tzadkiel) can be deduced by pure logic even if the existence of the Increate ca…
26 Mar 2005, 01:21
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fasces = bundle of sticks, is what it means: a group that cannot be broken, because it is a collective. I am not under the illusion that it's a synonym for "nasty", in fact that…
23 Mar 2005, 08:03
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You are still joking, I take it, but in case you are not, I will point out Fascism is clearly definable as an evolutionary strategy. Fascism = the good of the genetic collective…
23 Mar 2005, 00:30
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Thomas Bitterman writes: The physical and (especially) the biological Universe is also built on this, irrespective of any hypotheses about the divine…
22 Mar 2005, 00:34
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