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I love the terms "Lukosophists" and "Eisengrimandoes" :-)…
21 Aug 2012, 19:18
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Very cool. Do you happen to have a link? I can't seem to find anything online as far as cover art or anything like that goes.…
21 Aug 2012, 19:01
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I forgot to add that George R. R. Martin happens to be a big fan of *The Book of the New Sun,* and this blurb of his appears on the Fantasy Masterworks publication of *Shadow and C…
01 Aug 2012, 18:43
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I think that part of the reason ASOIAF gives off the impression of having such "fully-realized" characters is that the books are so darn long, and you spend a lot of time with them…
01 Aug 2012, 12:55
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Now that is an awesome t-shirt!…
17 Jul 2012, 13:31
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Thanks for the detailed response! It is remarkable that a writer of Lafferty's caliber has such a fragmented oeuvre. As I was searching for more about this trilogy I came across …
16 Jul 2012, 22:22
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One thing I remember about this story is that it was the first time I saw the word "craquelure". Great word, great story, and great write-up [?]…
06 Jun 2012, 19:54
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Neil Gaiman rubbed shoulders with a bunch of big writers (Wolfe, Lafferty, Douglas Adams). I have liked his stuff for the most part, although American Gods and Neverwhere weren't …
04 May 2012, 13:38
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Yeah, someone working on that show is a die-hard fan :-)…
02 May 2012, 17:20
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Nice! It's good to be wrong [?]…
25 Apr 2012, 13:31
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Too bad there isn't a nice print version :-/…
25 Apr 2012, 13:14
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Another author I have been alerted to is E. R. Eddison, who seems more in the realm of high fantasy than science fiction or urban fantasy, and is cited as an inspiration for the li…
19 Apr 2012, 13:27
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"At this point I'm reminded of Neal Stephenson as well. The Baroque Cycle is rather Wolfean and Powersian, in my opinion, infodumps aside." I absolutely love *The Baroque Cycle*. …
18 Apr 2012, 12:54
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Well, if I thought I had reading material for life before, I definitely do now! Thanks for all the recommendations.…
18 Apr 2012, 00:22
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"For some reason we were chanting titles and key phrases of the stories and novels and fingering rosaries." How do you know that isn't what I do in real life? Huh? Oh ... I mean…
17 Apr 2012, 19:32
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I have *The Rediscovery of Man *by Cordwainer Smith; I read one or two of the stories some time ago and enjoyed them, but haven't looked through it for a while. Steven Erikson is …
17 Apr 2012, 19:28
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Jack Vance and Borges are both on my radar. I actually have 10 or so of Vance's novels (I grabbed whatever I could find after reading Wolfe's praise in *The Castle of the Otter*) …
17 Apr 2012, 19:16
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How would you classify Cassie and Holly Hollander? Cassie is concerned with men to an extent, but it isn't the most defining part of her personality. The latter is, in my opinion…
17 Apr 2012, 18:34
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Would you care to elaborate? I have always had a hard time swallowing this critique, regardless of the author. It seems to imply that female characters in fiction should act acco…
17 Apr 2012, 18:21
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Looks great! I was actually paging through *Little, Big* the other day at a bookstore. It seemed interesting, I will definitely try out the Aegypt books soon. Wikipedia says it …
17 Apr 2012, 17:56
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I used to live in Albuquerque, and I can vouch for the fact that East Coast used book stores can be much more solid! The prices aren't so bad now that I look at it for those two L…
17 Apr 2012, 15:28
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Thanks for the insight. Unfortunately *Fourth Mansions *and *The Devil is Dead *are both missing from my collection. Hopefully they aren't too hard to track down.…
17 Apr 2012, 15:16
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"And Tim Powers, two steps below Laff literarily, and one below Wolfe, I think is very worth checking out for another highly original Catholic writer of wonderfully bizarre fiction…
17 Apr 2012, 15:14
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If I remember correctly, the Dwarves were originally a "dark" race created by Aule without the influence or aid of Eru. Eru later cleanses them when he intervenes in their impendi…
17 Apr 2012, 14:01
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Not to go too off topic, but I was wondering what your opinion of * Apocalypses* was. It is the last Lafferty I own that I have to read. It is two distinct novellas, correct?…
17 Apr 2012, 13:51
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Interesting idea. One difference though is that the task of Jonah on his travels was to save Nineveh from its moral corruption, and Severian has the more "mundane" task of bringin…
16 Apr 2012, 19:26
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I just discovered Lafferty a few months ago, and have been pretty lucky when it comes to finding his stuff at used bookstores. I am working through some of his short stories now (…
16 Apr 2012, 13:10
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"Even Hannibal Lector needed someone to talk to and have a meal with....um...erm..never mind." [?][?][?]…
12 Apr 2012, 19:54
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Solitary confinement as punishment for the first murder perhaps? 2012/4/12 Ant?nio Marques <entonio at gmail.com>…
12 Apr 2012, 16:25
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"Finally, in my opinion it is not the money spent housing the convicted or defending the accused but the money spent killing foreigners by the US military that deserves to be spent…
12 Apr 2012, 13:18
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Humane. Indeed!…
11 Apr 2012, 20:12
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I think critiquing the book for not having social networking is incredibly silly. Science fiction authors are in the business of going out on a limb to tell a story; they routinel…
10 Apr 2012, 15:31
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I do read significantly more than I watch TV shows these days, so I guess that is a good thing? When I left off, it was hinted at that in the Peter-less world, Nina Sharp was a ba…
03 Apr 2012, 18:41
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I stopped watching Fringe a few episodes into season 4 ... is it still good?…
03 Apr 2012, 13:50
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I am getting the same error. It was working earlier today.…
20 Mar 2012, 19:23
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"But my point was: how can there be a bad religion, if all religions are equally valid?" I think asking that question of the world of the *Long Sun* is very different than asking …
20 Mar 2012, 18:43
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"Actually we have a relevant observation from Wolfe: “Silk is a good man in a bad religion.” Plainly he thinks that there can be better or worse conceptions of the Divine, even if…
20 Mar 2012, 18:22
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In that case, the statement "The same way that one group of humans could have a better grasp of science, or economics, or poker," isn't true at all, because we don't advance in our…
20 Mar 2012, 17:42
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"The same way that one group of humans could have a better grasp of science, or economics, or poker," So, repeatable experiments and mathematical models? How are these applicable…
20 Mar 2012, 17:07
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I think it might be drawn from the point where Typhon / Paiton is stroking (himself? itself?) after being awoken by Severian. If memory serves, it was when they were overlooking t…
19 Mar 2012, 17:04
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"Ha, Pynchon aloud? I've not read him but the impression I get of his work makes me think that must have been an interesting or unusual scenario." Well, this particular book of h…
16 Mar 2012, 20:34
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Hhhmmm, the only book I have ever read out loud was *The Crying of Lot 49*by Pynchon. My copy of *The Golden Key* I remembering being blue, with gold-looking inlays for the title,…
16 Mar 2012, 19:33
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The Golden Key was a favorite of mine growing up. I wish I could find my copy!…
16 Mar 2012, 19:11
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Not for the same reasons, though. I doubt a god has anything tangible (like physical healing, for example) to gain from drinking the blood of someone who worships. The divine acc…
08 Mar 2012, 21:26
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I think I will have to reread the portion where Able drinks the Aelf blood; it is interesting that it works "both ways", and if it is a perversion for humans to worship the Aelf si…
08 Mar 2012, 21:20
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"But what's different at the end is that Able's blood is given voluntarily." Interesting point. I also seem to remember Baki being healed in *The Wizard * (she had broken legs) w…
08 Mar 2012, 21:11
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"But some have pointed out that potentially eucharistic symbolism is brought in right at the end" Is the portion you had in mind when Desiri drinks Able's blood until she becomes …
08 Mar 2012, 20:46
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Haha, a valiant attempt, Daniel. [?] Can anyone link to an interview(s) in which Wolfe talks about his faith in relation to his writing? I have read a fair number of his interview…
08 Mar 2012, 20:15
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If I remember correctly, "A Recording" is also in *The Very Best of Gene Wolfe*, which will probably be easier to find.…
08 Mar 2012, 18:15
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"I do agree that this subject continually teeters on the brink of being off-topic in a Wolfe forum and might be something of a dead horse." I tend to agree with this. The topic o…
08 Mar 2012, 15:30
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