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<<<Well, there ARE a few important details about food in New Sun. The pomegranate that drips from the eater's mouth, and Dr. Talos' lack of apetite, etc. Meals are important in…
21 Aug 2003, 18:42
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Mantis, further to Stone Ox and Don's Green Man musings, writes: <<Wasn't someone mentioning fairly recently that we don't know what happened during Severian's Year as an Ascian S…
21 Jul 2003, 21:51
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Anthony, we've had this debate before on the list and I agree with you (as did a few other listers, Alga I think began the discussion). I think Wolfe is a superb novelist, particu…
25 Jun 2003, 17:37
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I agree completely. His short stories are well written but nothing special, reminding me of the old saw about competence versus talent. Which is odd, because his longer work is s…
16 Apr 2003, 21:00
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VanderMeer is fantastic, Dradin, In Love and the rest of City of Saints and Madmen provides the most immersive, fully realized world I've found since TBOTNS. I'm in the middle o…
28 Feb 2003, 16:03
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Nutria wrote: <<My point is that, for me anyway, Wolfe is capable of presenting rather endearing and affectionate scenes when he wants so. He just doesn't very often want to.>> …
20 Feb 2003, 22:40
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To quote the great Nigel Tufnel, "it's like, how much more black can it be? And the answer is none, none more black." Jokes aside, you just know these scientists are sci-fi reader…
07 Feb 2003, 19:09
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Charles Reed wrote: <<1) The castaway says, "We could have saved her. Earlier. We could have made her young again. We could have taken her away. We could have done it. Nothing s…
07 Feb 2003, 16:10
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James Wynn wrote: <> I recently read it for the first time, after having already reading the Urth/LS/SS cycle, and thought that FHOC seemed like a "dry run" for the Urth cycle. …
31 Jan 2003, 21:52
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Mantis postulated about Roy Lackey's observation that Green met mostly men in Otherworld: <<<Yep. If this is "The Planet of the Apes," then where are all the "apes"?! Could it be…
31 Jan 2003, 17:39
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Andrew Bollen writes: <> I would imagine that is because Oreb, as a night chough, could articulate words even before Scylla entered him much like a parrot can, but hus cannot art…
23 Jan 2003, 15:09
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Marc Aramini wrote of Mr. Green and TAD: <<He is an ordinary man who cannot free himself from the ordinary entrapment - the flowering stigma of the goddess, which exists only to…
16 Jan 2003, 18:39
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Adam wrote: <<Klamm calls the hero "Herr Kay" because Klamm is a character from Kafka's THE CASTLE, and the protagonist of that book is always referred to as K. I don't know why …
16 Jan 2003, 14:41
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Mantis wrote: <<Since "identity" is such a strong part of TAD, and since the goddess clearly has so many names, it seems like an unnecessary straitjacket to identify a single name…
14 Jan 2003, 23:29
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W. Ansley wrote, in response to Crush's leatherskin vision: <<>Crush blunders forward: Oh happy day! Finally, someone is arguing with my conclusions! If I am to buy your argumen…
10 Jan 2003, 14:39
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Nutria wrote: << Anyway, let's run with this, and see where it might lead. Assuming that GW was not joking, and also that his note was precise: Green is URTH, not Ushas…
05 Jan 2003, 15:00
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Incidentally, I meant to say he explains that "Viridian is a bluish green," not "green is a bluish green." Sorry for the mixup, I haven't had my coffee yet! -----Original Message…
02 Jan 2003, 13:31
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I'm only 70 pages in, but I'm under the impression that Green actually is his last name (or at least he thinks it is). When he first appears at the Downtown Mental Health Center y…
02 Jan 2003, 13:28
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Either way it is an excellent joke. BTW, I read an article that quoted Tony Visconti, Bowie's longtime producer, as furiously screaming during the sessions "no, no NO, Planet Urth…
01 Jan 2003, 13:51
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Chris wrote: <<> There are plenty of arguments that can be made against this, and I won't I seem to recall that UOTNS is an example of this, that his editor talked him into the v…
31 Dec 2002, 19:54
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Well, I'm glad to see if I turn to There are Doors next I'll have some company on my voyage. The mundane comment was sort of a fear I had moving beyond the Urth universe -- Wolfe …
20 Dec 2002, 11:55
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Mantis wrote: <<<Shell is a fine Vironese name -- in fact, it was used in the text! Shell first helps Silk when Silk is imprisoned by Oosik after being shot with a needler (III),…
19 Dec 2002, 21:46
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Crush admonishes: You'll never make the Ayuntamiento with that kind of attitude.>> True, I need to start spraypainting "Shell for Calde" all over town! : )…
19 Dec 2002, 20:06
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No, shells are animal parts or products, and so "Shell" would be a male bio's name>>> Joe/Shell responds, smacking himself in the forehead with the palm of his hand: I guess you…
19 Dec 2002, 18:02
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One more piece of textual evidence is Quetzal's knowledge of Allah (or Ah Lah). True, I'm working backward from this, but he seems to know a lot about an Urth deity who is not wor…
25 Nov 2002, 18:10
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Charles wrote: <> Let me start by saying that I agree with your points, and generally don't think the inhumi were on Urth. But just to put forth one possible textual reference, …
25 Nov 2002, 18:02
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Crush wrote: <<Today on National Public Radio, Terry Gross of "Fresh Air" interviewed poet Sekou Sundiata about receiving a kidney transplant from a female friend. He mentioned th…
20 Nov 2002, 21:26
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Charles wrote: <<<>Presumably, then, he Not true. Here are Gene Wolfe's own words, which you can find in volume 6 of the Whorl archives: "Typhon did not know about the inhumi …
19 Nov 2002, 17:36
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Charles Reed provided, among many other quotes and interesting observations, the following: <<<Quetzal speaking "'...Before Kypris manifested here on Scylsday, the Windows of our …
19 Nov 2002, 15:56
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Andy wrote: <<< <<Travelling FTL requires that you have the vision of God - that you see time, not as a progression, but as a dimension >>> Although I do not pretend to be versed…
18 Nov 2002, 20:14
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Good eye, Roy! That's exactly the passage that I (and I'm sure Dan'l) were recollecting! Original Message: ----------------- From: Roy C. Lackey rclackey at stic.net Date: Mon, 18 N…
18 Nov 2002, 19:52
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Blattid wrote: <This puzzles me. I have wondered for some time just why many of the participants on this list assume that the wounding of the Old Sun took place during the reign of…
18 Nov 2002, 18:58
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Don wrote: << "Or are you suggesting that the Blue of Horn's day was in the far future of the Ushas that Sev saw? That a new civilization (Neighbors) had risen from the mud of Ur…
16 Nov 2002, 14:33
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Roy wrote: <> That is an interesting take on it, Roy. I can't say I disagree with you, but I'll offer my take on it fwiw (and without any promises that it is worth much : ) ). …
09 Nov 2002, 14:25
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James Wynn (Crush) wrote: "Half to himself he muttered, 'She didn't-not forever. Not even as long as I.' Orchid turned to look at him. 'No, she didn't. Now shut up.'" LS1:10 My q…
23 Oct 2002, 17:37
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