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Stephen Baxter, in a talk for Picocon 13, Imperial College, London, 4 February 1996, remarked: < Wells's Time Traveller was an expert in "physical optics." Wells notes, in passing…
12 Dec 1999, 18:16
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Wrong charge, admittedly. But it's desperate stuff, Patrick, I reckon, reeking of exhaustion. I feel sorry for the man, whose early and middle work I loved deeply, and still do. Th…
29 Oct 1999, 01:06
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It's a bit late to mention this, but we're slow in Australia - I hope people noticed how that nice clever gel alga had not one, not two, but about fifteen articles (on John Crowley…
10 Sep 1999, 11:50
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At 05:10 AM 6/06/99 -0700, Patrick made fun of my spelling deficits: What follows is egregiously off topic, but still... At http://www.eidolon.net/ezine/index.html those with a…
07 Jun 1999, 14:20
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May I say, from my currently lurking and frequently sighing mindboggled posture, that this e-list is certainly the couthest, intelligentest and suavest I have ever been lucky enoug…
29 Apr 1999, 18:07
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Nick Gevers suggested: < what about Brian Aldiss' THE MALACIA TAPESTRY, which was published in the mid-1970s? > Jonathan Cape, 1976, but at least some of its parts were earlier, …
12 Apr 1999, 12:01
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Strictly speaking this should go to the WHORL list except that I'm not subscribed and it might interest some people here. It's a kind of meta-comment, borrowed from my Swedish fri…
04 Mar 1999, 21:39
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Just reading Phil Dick's THE DARK-HAIRED GIRL very belatedly. The final item in this mix of letters, speeches and dreams is a soi-disant short story Paul Williams has abstracted f…
25 Jan 1999, 17:24
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They're everywhere! They're everywhere! The latest issue of *The New York Review of Science Fiction* (no. 125, Jan 1999) kicks off notably with a front page article by our brilli…
15 Jan 1999, 20:43
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A friend writes: I haven't read the Kuttner for many decades so can't take this any further (but I seem to recall that both Knight and Budrys troped on it later). Anyone? Damien …
24 Dec 1998, 11:25
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An editor at the New York Review of Science Fiction tells me that the URTH-list collage piece is in the December issue, which is at the printer now. Thanks to everyone who contrib…
21 Nov 1998, 00:12
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< This post is interesting, because I recently saw a book by Jack Vance called _The Languages of Pao_, which said something like "The first science fiction book based on the scienc…
01 Nov 1998, 15:01
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Jay wrote: < We are keeping the excellent 'Lexicon Urthus' on the night stand for quick reference > Well, it makes a more interesting adjunct than a cigar. Damien Broderick…
30 Sep 1998, 12:00
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< > What is "pomo"? There've been a number of references in Just an abreviation for "post-modern." Which, as near as I can tell from common usage can mean either "I don't unders…
05 Sep 1998, 12:20
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Contributors to the collage, and interested on-lookers: David Hartwell at the New York Review of SF speaks of: < NYRSF [...] #122, in which the Wolfe may appear. > That would be…
26 Aug 1998, 10:40
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"William H. Ansley" <wansley at warwick.net> meditated on final things: < If the universe is infinite, why isn't the night sky a blaze of light? It follows the same structure as the …
11 Jul 1998, 12:17
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I recently mentioned that the anfractuous Clute will be at Readercon this coming weekend; I belatedly see on their web site that so too will Mr Wolfe be attending. Go get 'em, peo…
08 Jul 1998, 11:44
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Further to the labyrinthine question, John Clute responds: Clute will be at Readercon any day now, for those of you within striking distance of Boston. *sigh* Damien Broderick…
07 Jul 1998, 11:46
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I wrote to Peter Nicholls thus: He replies: This is new to me. I don't think I'd even read the CD-ROM version of the Wolfe entry, or if I had, I'd forgotten. You'd need to ask Cl…
06 Jul 1998, 19:24
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prion, it grieves me to say, is speaking through his hat on the matter of black holes gulping down stars in mere moments. Here's the authoritative J-P Luminet (you think I'm makin…
06 Jul 1998, 13:36
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mantis sez < There was a rash of "twin planet" stories in the seventies, wasn't there? 5HC, and then THE DISPOSSESSED, and who knows what else. Odd. > A recurrent trope in sf, n…
03 Jul 1998, 14:36
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I raised the matter of Blount and Australia with my learned friend John Bangsund <bangsund at pipeline.com.au> who scoured his CD-ROMss, his reference library and his commodious mind …
03 Jun 1998, 10:26
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In this company of lexicosophers, I think Douglas Hofstadter's recent heartbreakingly poignant, delightfully clever arts-meets-science book sub-titled `In praise of the Music of La…
01 Jun 1998, 17:29
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Hi all My strange post re:reposting was almost certainly badly misjudged on my part, and probably misunderstood by list members. I've been gently chided off-list for clogging URT…
27 May 1998, 11:51
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i've only been here a brief time, but i assume from the responses to my suzanne collage suggestion that some list members are concerned about being misquoted off the list. quite s…
23 May 1998, 12:10
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Hi team I've just suggested this to one of the editors at the New York Review of SF, and would like to hear from the relevant list posters if it's cool to snaffle their glittering…
16 May 1998, 12:16
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Tony Ellis asks why I consider it determinable that the narrator of `Fifth Head' is named Gene Wolfe. Well, I've forgotten the fine-grain of my reasoning - it's more than two deca…
03 Apr 1998, 10:27
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manthis sez: < Broderick should write more! Hey, I'm dancing as fast as I can! (Four books out last year; one of them, THE WHITE ABACUS, just won the Aurealis Award for best …
01 Apr 1998, 11:51
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Frolicking through the archives with my tongue hanging out, I find that the matter of PEACE has cropped up several times. Once more, then: In 1986, I published some thoughts on t…
29 Mar 1998, 22:47
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alga said: < Please, for the heathens among us, review the 14 stations of the cross.> EB gives `Cross, Stations of the': the final events of the Passion of Christ 1. Jesus is …
29 Mar 1998, 11:23
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Greetings - I've recently subscribed to this list but have been lurking, struck with awe by the richness of the group's exegetical laminations. Guess I'll just have to go though…
26 Mar 1998, 23:34
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