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Is there a reference in *New Sun *to clients who admit themselves to the Tower, or are otherwise there of their own free will? Silk/Horn is explicitly one of these ...…
06 Feb 2013, 15:12
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The Wheel of Time suffers from this sickness as well. So much trouble, heartache, and death could have been averted if characters were just a teeny tiny bit more forthcoming with …
06 Feb 2013, 15:09
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Perhaps "tacked on" was a bit too harsh. Let's just say that I find *Short Sun *to be quite a bit less mysterious than its predecessors, and the insertion of Nessus, the Matachin …
06 Feb 2013, 14:38
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I also thought (I can't remember quite why) that Typhon sent out more than one, possibly many, Whorls. I might be totally wrong about this, but if it was something of a major camp…
06 Feb 2013, 14:30
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The scene where Severian brings Silk/Horn writing implements seems to be a one-on-one conversation. Silk/Horn presumably gets Severian started writing his own memoir after giving …
06 Feb 2013, 14:15
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It also isn't quite clear to me what Silk/Horn looks like at this point in the story (I am just nearing the end of *Return to the Whorl *for the first time), so that might be hampe…
06 Feb 2013, 14:01
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Is there indication in *The Book of the New Sun *that any of the clients at the time of Severian's childhood might in fact be Silk/Horn? If Wolfe had the vision and plan for the "…
06 Feb 2013, 13:52
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I was confused by the one with the sword-toting elf as well. It look really familiar (the artwork is very similar to that of the *Mistborn *series), and after some digging I found…
30 Jan 2013, 14:13
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Not sure if you guys saw this or if it has made the rounds already, but here are some great (and not so great) foreign covers for TBONS: http://imgur.com/a/P5tDY The Italian *The…
30 Jan 2013, 13:36
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I think TBOTNS is a great example of books that demonstrate the silliness of taking an either / or approach to genres.…
09 Jan 2013, 00:50
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I don't think something like this could be accidental. All the more reason for me to reread BOTNS.…
23 Dec 2012, 02:09
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That should have said "Tim" Powers, of course! I have only read *Last Call *and *The Anubis Gates*, but I liked them both quite a bit. I think that the latter is better, overall,…
17 Dec 2012, 16:08
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Interesting! I am a fan of Tin Powers for sure, it would be great to check out his precursors. I notice that Last Call and The Greater Trumps have some similarities, for example. T…
17 Dec 2012, 15:54
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Hello! Is anyone familiar with the work of Charles Williams? From a brief look online, he seems to have some similarities to MacDonald, and I thought there was a good chance some…
17 Dec 2012, 15:30
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Yeah, the gravitational shenanigans were what made me think this likely isn't the case. However, introducing one big problem that would get rid of several others (the previously p…
28 Nov 2012, 16:28
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Do we have any idea just how close Blue and Green get during conjunction? I seem to remember that from Blue, Green is more of a spec than a moon, but perhaps they are close enough,…
28 Nov 2012, 15:57
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Then they end up mimicking a mammalian mating ritual but reproducing like amphibians in the water. What gives? I know Wolfe's zoology is not so deficient. If I remember correctly,…
26 Nov 2012, 18:45
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My copy is beat up and old, I probably won't be able to resist a shiny new one.…
21 Nov 2012, 15:46
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And marked as such! I'll take this opportunity to ask a Wolfe-related question, things have seemed a bit quiet lately. How many of you have read *The Devil in a Forest *? How is…
15 Nov 2012, 18:15
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Sometimes these things give me heart attacks ... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Google Alerts <googlealerts-noreply at google.com> Date: Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 11:04 …
27 Aug 2012, 15:06
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24 Aug 2012, 02:21
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I guess this bumps "Return to the Whorl" to the top of my to-read pile ...…
21 Aug 2012, 19:21
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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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I was wondering if any of you have managed to get your hands on and read * Archipelago*, the first in the "Devil is Dead" trilogy. As far as I can tell, there was only one print r…
16 Jul 2012, 20:02
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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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Wolfe, Lafferty, Powers, MacDonald, and Tolkien, what else will I like? This email list has good taste, and I was wondering what other hidden authors you guys might enjoy, given pr…
17 Apr 2012, 17:47
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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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