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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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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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Not sure if you guys have seen this yet, but Tor is running a project that consists of short stories written around a painting by John Palencar, one to be released each Wednesday i…
07 Mar 2012, 16:49
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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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After taking a several month break after *The Knight*, I finally got around to reading *The Wizard*. I liked it better than the first installment overall, but the shift to third-p…
27 Feb 2012, 15:13
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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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I just finished *On Blue's Waters*. It took me a while to really get into it, but I look forward to reading the rest of the Short Sun books. For some reason it didn't capture my …
09 Jan 2012, 19:12
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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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I don't know if many of you watched the short-lived but well-executed HBO miniseries, *Carnivale*. Basically, it was a pseudo-end times supernatural mystery / thriller set during …
16 Dec 2011, 21:12
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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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