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There are several Wolfes in several Worlds. I think three or four. They pass stories around and collaborate. .…
18 Apr 2010, 04:29
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As I say, I get the impression that Bax lies a lot, but not about the supernatural stuff. .…
18 Apr 2010, 00:03
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I get the impression that the faery stuff is all real. .…
17 Apr 2010, 15:28
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No. .…
17 Apr 2010, 01:41
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And I don't think there is any doubt at all that the Kid is insane. There may very well be something wierd going on in Bellona, but the Kid is definitely insane. .…
17 Apr 2010, 00:44
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You're not being contradictory. You're being a pedant. .…
17 Apr 2010, 00:32
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Uh-huh. .…
17 Apr 2010, 00:31
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Yeah, that's right. It's a very, very bad idea to treat Dhalgren like a Wolfe book. Wolfe uses unreliable narrators. Delany uses an insane narrator. .…
17 Apr 2010, 00:28
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There's a lot more happening in Dhalgren than things being seriously out of order. .…
16 Apr 2010, 21:14
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Bax says George left school and got a job, he kept going to graduate school until the legacy was gone. .…
09 Apr 2010, 22:08
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Melt silver. Pour into bullet mold. Allow to cool and harden. However, you certainly don't need a dueling pistol, and you certainly don't need a flintlock. Any cap and ball weap…
09 Apr 2010, 22:07
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Pure silver can be melted and cast or even thrown from a shot tower, if you have enough of it. .…
09 Apr 2010, 22:01
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Jacob and Esau weren't twins? .…
09 Apr 2010, 22:00
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It's an excellent book. I am going to have to reread it before I form any opinions. .…
09 Apr 2010, 01:02
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The War Beneath The Tree is just made for kids. .…
23 Mar 2010, 18:09
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Indeed. This story was leakage in from a parallel World, and the story of this story as it appears here will leak into yet another. If you think back, you may remember it now. .…
08 Mar 2010, 21:26
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Hey, we might as well start the alternative traditions early. .…
08 Mar 2010, 21:24
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This is really taking the unreliable narrator thing to new level. Next, I guess, there will be another letter saying this one is a froggery... .…
08 Mar 2010, 20:56
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Hear, hear! .…
05 Mar 2010, 22:12
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There was some momentum behind the first and second novels, but when there was no market for the third, he went on to other projects, and if he lost the thread of where he was goin…
28 Jan 2010, 23:05
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Io is a moon of Jupiter. Jupiter's moons are named after Jupiter's girlfriends (and one boyfriend). .…
22 Jan 2010, 23:50
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BTW, James, you are exactly right that Wolfe said something indeterminate and that I assumed some on top of that. I still *think* I am correct in thinking that Hyacinth is genetica…
19 Jan 2010, 07:28
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Very well taken, John. .…
16 Jan 2010, 22:52
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Gene Wolfe is not exactly homophobic; as far as I know, he loves the sinner and thinks that the sin is no worse than a lot of things hetro people get up to. There are many gay char…
16 Jan 2010, 21:32
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Maybe for you, who was not there, it doesn't. .…
16 Jan 2010, 20:13
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In 2002, when I met Gene Wolfe, I mentioned the theory that was bouncing around the list at the time, that Hyacinth was a male chem. He remarked that it was a good thing that he w…
16 Jan 2010, 00:30
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Unreliable, certainly, but dishonest? I don't think he is particularly dishonest. When does he actually lie? .…
12 Jan 2010, 19:20
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He's making you think, isn't he? .…
12 Jan 2010, 16:10
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He hadn't planned it out, Tom. When he wrote the New Sun he had no idea there was going to be a Short Sun. .…
12 Jan 2010, 15:38
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When you are talking about something totally speculative, you can make up whatever result you like, basically, and justify your assumptions however you like. Hey, the Shivapuri Ba…
04 Jan 2010, 16:43
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There may very well be more stories forthcoming. I agree that there is just too little information for a Wolfe story: too many possible explanations. A Wolfe story should narrow do…
04 Jan 2010, 09:37
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Dan'l, James, All, Thank you for making this discussion interesting as well as totally civil. I have enjoyed it immensely. I'd like to wish everyone an excellent turn of the year,…
21 Dec 2009, 20:35
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I personally have no problem with the Book of Mormon or the "corrected" Bible of the Jehovah's Witnesses. Both Mormonism and JWism are perfectly fine religions. Remember, I am *no…
21 Dec 2009, 02:46
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Jeff, you are using the modern definition of the term 'science'. Traditionally, any coherent and systematically organized body of knowledge is a science. The term was redefined i…
19 Dec 2009, 19:52
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That's interesting. Epictetus, who is in koine, uses it in the earlier sense. It is also the sense in which I use it. .…
19 Dec 2009, 17:33
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But that's the best part! .…
19 Dec 2009, 16:59
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But that's the best part! .…
19 Dec 2009, 16:59
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I see. You're in college, right? .…
19 Dec 2009, 16:58
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Merely a hundred, hundred-twenty pounds overweight. I've been fatter. .…
19 Dec 2009, 16:50
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Really? .…
19 Dec 2009, 13:36
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I think it was the third or fourth time I read Whitman, all of a sudden, he was there talking to me. One of the most remarkable things that has ever occurred to me. It only hsppen…
19 Dec 2009, 04:53
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Indeed. .…
19 Dec 2009, 04:50
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What, you expect consistency? Sheesh. .…
19 Dec 2009, 04:07
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No doubt. .…
19 Dec 2009, 04:05
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Jeff Wilson writes: What about them? .…
19 Dec 2009, 04:04
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OK, I can disagree with that. .…
19 Dec 2009, 00:54
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Sorry, I'm not into S&M currently. Not that I have anything against that kind of stuff. .…
19 Dec 2009, 00:53
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It is certainly scientific in the old sense. It has been gone over for a long time by some brilliant people and the loose ends are pretty much all tied up. .…
19 Dec 2009, 00:52
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Not if you are, as I am, using the radical definition of the term 'heterodox'. .…
18 Dec 2009, 23:12
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That's the term! .…
18 Dec 2009, 21:19
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