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*See http://mysite.verizon.net/~vze2tmhh/wolfeint.html* *Q:* *What's available to an adult, adventurous reader in science fiction? Why should they read that genre? Why should they…
30 Apr 2011, 02:15
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Isn't it possible that "going to Woldercan to find Reis" wasn't meant to be taken literally? It seems pretty easy to read that as Cassie was going to Woldercan to find love.…
12 Sep 2009, 16:54
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Doesn't a god force Latro to choose between either finding himself among friends or regaining his memory? I thought his continued wanderings were because being among friends withou…
21 Jul 2009, 15:59
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Craig, that was exactly my understanding of it too. I don't have the book with me, but I remember Severian saying something that indicates that that is also his interpretation.…
29 Dec 2008, 20:46
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I'd assumed that the changes in Baldanders behavior were not an act but something caused by wildly fluctuating levels of hormones. Otherwise I cannot explain how Baldanders goes fr…
29 Dec 2008, 17:17
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The interview you quoted is available online. Are all the interviews in Shadows of the New Sun available online? bruce…
05 Nov 2008, 19:11
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I didn't mean "alternate reality" literally. I mean that were circumstances different for Severian you can see him being a good librarian. That is, if Severian had different parent…
03 Oct 2008, 20:55
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It's a salad dressing. Reis looked up. "I felt sure you'd order the green goddess." "I like ranch." "...Waitress, I want you to bring both dressings. A cup of each..." Cassie weig…
02 Oct 2008, 06:02
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Gwern mentioned an interview with Gene Wolfe saying that Severian is an intellectual that doesn't know he is an intellectual. "It's a pity you are a torturer, " Ultan said. "You mi…
01 Oct 2008, 20:27
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Perhaps owing to lousy reading, I am left with a lot of fundamental questions that no one else has brought up. Gideon gets the ambassadorship. Does this mean that he was able to g…
25 Sep 2008, 03:41
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In the opening chapter of Shadow, Thea says something to Vodalus that Severian does not catch; Vodalus says in response, "You didn't have to come, Thea. How would it look to the ot…
25 Jul 2007, 20:01
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I'm not sure what the confusion is about. Baldanders says that the flood is caused by gravitational forces from the New Sun in Urth of the New Sun XLII.…
23 Jul 2007, 22:27
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Could someone sketch out some of the standing explanations?…
09 Apr 2007, 11:24
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I thought that the overarching goal was to create better intelligences (though what is better is not clear to me). Severian is asked if he ever thought there was something more tha…
04 Apr 2007, 00:02
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Urth will only receive a new sun if its epitome is found worthy. Is it necessary that the epitome of Urth is always an autarch (and a thousand man in a single body), or could Typho…
03 Apr 2007, 13:11
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Baldanders created Dr. Talos to be everything he is not. 'Baldanders wisely made me all that he is not, so that I might counterweight his deficiencies. I am not fond of money, for …
10 Sep 2006, 16:49
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Severian adopts the fountain, ship volant, and rose as his devices. A couple of pages ago we were told that "We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we…
10 Sep 2006, 16:46
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