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No problem. The copyright date says 2011, so it looks very recent. I actually just saw a link somewhere for a "new" Wolfe story, so I clicked the link, dove into the story becaus…
07 Mar 2012, 21:10
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The other stories will be on the Tor website, yes, but they will appear weekly. I think all the stories are immediately available in the ebook.…
07 Mar 2012, 18:53
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Let us know how the other stories are; also, Fred, I like your email! That was a great book.…
07 Mar 2012, 18:44
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Looks like a forgot the link! Here you go: http://www.tor.com/stories/2012/03/dormanna…
07 Mar 2012, 16:53
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"New Sun is not an allegory of French wine tasting championships." I wish this were true!…
06 Mar 2012, 15:40
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"But it's not all subjective, right?" A case can be made that it *is* all subjective, because we can never know the author's motives, but that seems like a petty objection (that, …
06 Mar 2012, 14:46
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than what is clear in the books. Couldn't agree more, and I might add that this is one of the reasons I so enjoy Wolfe. It is one thing to just stuff a story full of clever allus…
06 Mar 2012, 13:46
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"I didn't detect any Judeo-Christian element except for the (pretty amazing) appearance of Michael the Archangel." This is what I had in mind as well, but it is impressive enough …
27 Feb 2012, 18:42
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That was a great read, thank you!…
17 Feb 2012, 16:40
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That looks fantastic and I might just go ... :-)…
10 Jan 2012, 14:14
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See, I found the way the thieves and other disreputables spoke in Long Sun to be great; the odd words were carefully selected (like the vocabulary of New Sun) from other places and…
09 Jan 2012, 19:36
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Sorry to chime in kind of late, but I just wanted to say that, like Gerry, I am content to leave notions of the soul (and many other things) as mostly mysterious in Wolfe's books. …
22 Dec 2011, 19:04
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I am trying to get people to ask about him by sticking the books on the shelf right near my front door. I have all of Wolfe's novels (multiple copies of some) and most of the shor…
21 Dec 2011, 14:07
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Well, I have never met someone in real life who has read Wolfe! I am trying to proselytize, however, and have started picking up used copies of my favorites to give away.…
20 Dec 2011, 14:16
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I always kind of thought you could be either a "Stephenson" or "Gibson" person, but not both. [?] I…
19 Dec 2011, 19:04
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I have yet to read *Anathem *(sitting on my shelf as we speak), but I would highly recommend his *Baroque Cycle* and the related book, *Cryptonomicon*. He is a very snappy writer, …
19 Dec 2011, 18:44
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Daniel, I understand what you mean about the prose being so good it kind of slips under the radar, and "does its job". I read Neal Stephenson's * Quicksilver* and absolutely loved…
19 Dec 2011, 18:36
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Wolfe's writing is very beautiful, and he uses such vivid, unique language. I haven't memorized the passage, but the part in *The Shadow of the Torturer *where Ultan is describing…
19 Dec 2011, 18:14
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"In other words, I think generic categories are necessary and useful. But they're necessary and useful as *jumping off points*, not as conclusions about a piece of work." I second…
16 Dec 2011, 15:41
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Like Ant?nio, I never actually got much of a s&s feel from *The Book of the New Sun*. Part of the reason might be that even from the beginning, one gets a sense of the immense age…
16 Dec 2011, 14:57
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I am trying to decide when I should dive into the Soldier series. I still have to read The Wizard (read The Knight) and the Short Sun series (read New and Long). I remember readi…
13 Dec 2011, 19:39
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I vote for gummed-up works.…
13 Dec 2011, 16:56
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I have never read any John Crowley, but I will definitely keep an eye out for his books. I am on Lafferty stint right now, reading whatever I can find. Thanks for the input!…
16 Nov 2011, 13:50
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Additionally, I had gotten the impression that off-world species had been introduced, had time to interbreed, and evolve into new, pseudo-native species. It seems on the magnitude…
02 Nov 2011, 15:54
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Ah! Thanks for correcting me ... I was conflating the two injuries.…
28 Oct 2011, 19:31
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His injury by the vulture is also one of the reasons he is able to become close with Crane; his hurt ankle serves as a pretext for Crane to give him the wrapping, etc. So the vult…
28 Oct 2011, 17:52
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The one with the dog is Starwater Strains<http://www.saltmanz.com/pictures/albums/Cover%20Scans/Book%20Covers/Starwater%20Strains.jpg>. As far as bad representations of the action …
25 Oct 2011, 18:24
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The art for Wolfe's books is so hit and miss! The Richard Bober illustrations for the Long Sun books are awesome, and particular favorites of mine. This one, one the other hand, …
25 Oct 2011, 18:13
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Thanks guys. I don't have my copy of Endangered Species at the moment, so I couldn't page through. Great story, by the way!…
25 Oct 2011, 14:25
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Ah, thank you. I remember that part of Long Sun now. In reading these books, it seemed more that the Outsider was reminiscent of Christ (the Outsider being the "real" god in the …
14 Oct 2011, 19:59
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Halos date back to throughout the Greek heroic tales; they is not distinctly Christian, though it might have been old or modified Christian art in the New Sun.…
14 Oct 2011, 19:47
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"So it didn't seem like a far future religious manuscript to you, with the new sun coming to save the earth from the death of the sun at the end of mankind?" There were definitely…
14 Oct 2011, 19:46
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So he is not so much a type of Christ, but a "type" of Redeemer / Savior. One might as well say that Severian is a type of Krishna, or Zoroaster, or any of the other historical fig…
14 Oct 2011, 19:38
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I was indeed brought up in a very religious household, with all of those things you mentioned; I didn't take the apparent reference to Christ to be anything more than a secular adj…
14 Oct 2011, 19:31
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I will look for them; I don't see enough to consider Severian to be a parallel of Christ without really bending the definition / nature of Christ. I guess this will eventually tur…
14 Oct 2011, 19:25
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Christ was not flawed, divine, aware of his mission, his role, and quite cognizant of his powers ... these seem like the opposite of Severian?…
14 Oct 2011, 19:15
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When does Silk see Jesus? I vaguely remember something like that; perhaps in his meditations on the Outsider he comes to such a conclusion? The Severian-as-a-type-of-Christ stuff…
14 Oct 2011, 19:09
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I have only read the first half of the Wizard / Knight duology, but I very much enjoyed it. It was one of those books that got me sufficiently interested (though not enthralled) d…
13 Oct 2011, 14:48
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I have enjoyed all of his books that I have read, but his stand-alone novels that most impressed me (like Matthew) were *Peace* and *The Fifth Head of Cerberus*. They are, in my o…
13 Oct 2011, 13:10
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Uh oh ... I looked at the Urth archives and realized quite a bit of discussion has been put into this already. I don't mean to resurrect a dead / impossible topic. I can read up …
19 Sep 2011, 15:30
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That is very fun! I might bump Home Fires up a notch or two on my Wolfe-to-read list.…
19 Aug 2011, 01:36
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I agree about the gulags! Anyways, this list is especially embarrassing since NPR listeners have a (vague) reputation for being intellectuals, and a cut above the typical reader. …
11 Aug 2011, 15:16
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I have yet to read *The* *Hyperion Cantos*, though it has been tentatively on my large to-read list for a while. I wasn't terribly impressed by *Ender's Game*. I don't think it w…
04 Aug 2011, 15:25
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I picked a smattering of favorites: Gravity's Rainbow The Book of the New Sun The Baroque Cycle Dune Chronicles Childhood's End…
04 Aug 2011, 14:22
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http://theorangeview.net/2011/08/nprs-flawed-best-scifi-and-fantasy-poll/ Interesting point about the poll ...…
03 Aug 2011, 20:29
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Already have! I have to say, some of the books on the list are pretty terrible, and shouldn't be considered for best of anything. There are also some excellent candidates that ar…
03 Aug 2011, 19:52
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Ah, you are correct. I had only seen the first interview you posted, and thought the interviewer had added Saints Anne and Croix to the list. I tend to think that you are correct…
03 Aug 2011, 15:40
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Thanks for the link! I look forward to exploring more about and by Lafferty. On the topic of women writers, has anyone read anything by Janny Wurts? I hear good things about her…
03 Aug 2011, 14:38
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R. A. Lafferty is very good, but unfortunately I have only been able to find and read one of his novels (his first, *Past Master*). I definitely will keep my eye out for more. I …
03 Aug 2011, 14:23
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Honestly I am surprised that Name of the Wind made it ... I guess there are going to be some strange choices when it is put up to a vote.…
28 Jul 2011, 15:37
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