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I wanted to second this. I have the Vandermeer and one of the Cisco books already, but the rest is still a great deal. Hello Urthlings, there is a great deal at http://stor…
15 Jul 2014, 21:39
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I unintentionally answered my own question. Well, in a sense: I just finished Caitlin Kiernan's _The Drowning Girl_, and (although I have no idea if it was intentionally influenced…
27 Jun 2014, 01:30
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I just read Michael Swanwick's _Stations of the Tides_, which I've read was intentionally inspired by Fifth Head's style. Are there other known/acknowledged pieces as closely mir…
12 Jun 2014, 20:08
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Authority is a fun ride, but much of what it shows seems to be setting up for the third. There's plenty of fun weirdness along the way, but I thought Annihilation played up the "We…
21 May 2014, 15:57
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Just finished the new Lafferty collection as well. Good to revisit old masters. :) I can't recommend Jeff Vandermeer's _Annihilation_ highly enough. It's part of a new "trilogy" (…
12 Mar 2014, 14:35
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Awesome! Thank you! I've read a couple of these, but the others sound wonderful. And thanks to Dan'l for the Willis recommendation. I remember now having heard about that, but I'd…
20 Dec 2013, 16:57
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Agreed. This isn't the time to overwhelm someone with an uninvited deluge of correspondence and stuff. But a simple collective card from a group of concerned people seems appropria…
18 Dec 2013, 14:17
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I also think that comparisons with Mieville's _The City and the City_ are necessary. Whether Wolfe read that or not (anyone know?), the two are definitely similar (and interestingl…
02 Dec 2013, 20:46
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So when do we get to cancel the moratorium on TLA? I've read it once. Anyone else? Oh, how I long to discuss houses, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Peace...…
02 Dec 2013, 20:23
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Both ICO and Shadow of the Colossus are excellent games and available in the US. I once told a friend that Shadow of the Colossus is the only video game I ever put on my bookshelf …
23 Sep 2013, 16:16
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I've been teaching literature for over 15 years, and suddenly I feel very confident in my abilities.... I haven't posted to the list in a long while, but reading this made m…
06 Sep 2013, 00:41
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http://betweenletters.quora.com/14-Writers-Handwrite-Their-Writing-Advice-on-Their-Hands?ref=fb "Start the next one!"…
26 Aug 2013, 14:16
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I'm sure many people on this list would be interested to know that Jack Vance passed away last Sunday. http://www.jackvance.com/jackvance_05262013/ (Apologies if this has been po…
29 May 2013, 20:46
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Has someone posted this yet? http://io9.com/5968344/gene-wolfes-out-of-print-classics-now-available-as-e+books…
14 Dec 2012, 22:46
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Yeah, it's a common trope, but it helps me grind my Milton/Wolfe axe...at least in my head. As for the higher/lower, Wizard Knight is the main idea. But Briah/Yesod fit something …
04 Oct 2012, 04:08
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Speaking of Milton, in the creation story of PL, chaos/matter/nature are always feminine. God implants order into the "womb of nature" as he says. It's a matter more of imagery rat…
02 Oct 2012, 14:45
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I tend to agree. He always seems best when he's doing something oblique, like collaborating or writing for varied formats. I don't think that's a bad thing because parts of Sandman…
04 May 2012, 14:26
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Maybe it's a difference in sensibility, but I don't care whether the author actually believes or not. I actually find Crowley to have a more sincerely "supernatural" style than Wol…
18 Apr 2012, 20:25
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Totally fair. Tastes differ. Unfortunately, most of the people I give Wolfe don't finish it. But, then, those people are obviously fools.…
18 Apr 2012, 17:06
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Do you think it's the style? Crowley writes in that anti-Wolfe, "art-literary" not-much-happening-for-awhile style that circles around itself. When Wolfe looks like he's navel-gazi…
18 Apr 2012, 16:40
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I'm with David on this one. As much as I love Wolfe and the Sun books, _Little, Big_ is one of the books that I stand in dumbfaced, slackjawed awe over. To me, it's one of the few …
18 Apr 2012, 16:31
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Have we mentioned Chesterton yet? He's not only one of Wolfe's favorites, but they approach their themes in very similar ways, methinks. Crowley...with a million exclamation point…
17 Apr 2012, 21:58
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There's also a more immediate "King Under the Mountain": Thorin Oakenshield (or whoever is king of Lonely Mountain). Granted, that title will have the same mythological resonances …
16 Apr 2012, 20:09
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As I recall, Locus actually published that they bought it. Didn't someone share the link on here? And I would certainly buy a collection like the Vance one...even if the price was…
16 Apr 2012, 03:07
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Don't reopen old wounds. ? From: Jeff Wilson ?On become so complex I wonder if they can pull it back together. the producers made in earlier seasons. But Battlestar Ga…
03 Apr 2012, 22:47
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That is pretty cool. It also connects the "experiment" to the prohibition against cheating. Having a good heart isn't just a kind of soul vs. technology thing. It's about using the…
29 Mar 2012, 18:35
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Perhaps the missing mesquite beans point to the marmots he considers hunting right after? Or, on the other hand, that they never fell and the the tree is barren? (This could go wit…
29 Mar 2012, 18:29
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There's also the fact that the sun is renewed through some pretty spectacular technology, too. So if the central image of renewal and rebirth is technological... Perhaps the diffe…
29 Mar 2012, 17:45
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I'm pretty sure that Crowley's _Little, Big_ settles all these questions definitively and without ambiguity. ;)…
29 Mar 2012, 17:41
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Wright is usually right (sorry) about Wolfe's relation to the reader, and he's really insightful about the way Wolfe crafts relationships between text, narrative, readers, etc. The…
26 Mar 2012, 23:12
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Nicely done on this one. And you're absolutely right about the prose. 14 years makes quite a difference! Just a few things. The Brahmin is described in the beginning as *outside* …
26 Mar 2012, 06:16
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Absolutely right about the last two paragraphs being the first to go in later Wolfe. Instead, we might have gotten some kind of narration of confusion or lack of fulfillment. Or li…
26 Mar 2012, 00:36
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Doh! I'll get my subgenius card revoked.…
25 Mar 2012, 21:17
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We also can't forget, of course, that the Church of the Subgenius worships Bob Dobson. What strikes me, though, is how toothless the devil is. He just reinforces Dobson's self inv…
25 Mar 2012, 17:22
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Ah, Hephaestus. Of course. And the reverend does suppose it's an artificial limb. But Vulcan never had that seething resentment. Dunno, seems basically like a nice little Easter f…
25 Mar 2012, 17:09
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There's a tradition in some medieval texts and late medieval morality plays that the devil limps when he's in disguise because he's got hooves instead of feet. And unless I'm compl…
25 Mar 2012, 00:17
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I'd love to keep up with this. Marc, would you let us know which ones you plan on reading? I've actually got a lot of the short stories that I haven't even read, to be honest. This…
21 Mar 2012, 03:53
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Wonderful, Marc. I'm still terribly jealous. Chasing a 3 year old around a wedding reception while my wife enjoyed her friends was poor compensation. How we suffer for those we lov…
18 Mar 2012, 14:07
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At this point, it's probably not to let Peyton come to Denver. Speaking of...anyone know if Wolfe is a baseball fan? And, if so, is he a Cubs or a White Sox guy? Has Tebow d…
16 Mar 2012, 20:54
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_The Princess and the Goblin_? I plan to read it to my daughter when she's old enough---in a year or two. That's why I collected all the MacDonald I have, though there was a …
16 Mar 2012, 20:39
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Phantastes was a beautiful book! Never besmirch the name of MacDonald! heh heh... As someone who was raised in a relatively a-religious family, I usually just ignored the obvious…
16 Mar 2012, 02:51
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Can we change the subject? How about this: whoever's going to the dinner, ask him if anything magical ever really happened in The Sorcerer's House, or if it was all just a fancy ep…
16 Mar 2012, 01:06
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Yep. I'm not Catholic, but it doesn't really matter. I don't like Wolfe because I *believe* him or have to share his worldview. I'm not looking to have myself confirmed in someone …
15 Mar 2012, 23:46
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I tend to agree with you. After all, an author can say what he attempted to do. He can't always claim that he was successful or in as much control as he thought. That said, I do …
15 Mar 2012, 23:26
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You're right that God the character in PL doesn't seem very Wolfean...(but note also how different "the Son" and "God" are as characters in the poem.) But I'm thinking more of Milt…
15 Mar 2012, 18:47
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David: >>On second glance the story seems based in some form of Platonism in which all material things strive to reunite with the Ideal. I said it before, but I like to repeat my…
15 Mar 2012, 15:24
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My bad, too. I often use "Hieros" as shorthand for all Yesodis/Hiero-etceteras. And I think I did it earlier today. Yes, Heiros is a bad term in this instance, since we're differe…
15 Mar 2012, 01:01
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I think like James, apparently. I'm just generally skeptical of approaches that start by assuming what Wolfe must think and then try to find that in the text. I'd rather start with…
14 Mar 2012, 17:04
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As my 3-yr-old would say, "You are naughty!" Craig Brewer wrote (14-03-2012 15:10): Watch the sarcasm...…
14 Mar 2012, 16:41
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A few things: 1) The sun was dying out (whether "naturally" or because of the Hieros), so humanity was up a creek, anyway. From a broad perspective, the flood's "genocide" also k…
14 Mar 2012, 15:10
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