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Wait, what? *SIX* book series? It's four, with an optional fifth, but what's the sixth? Stay healthy, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes *"Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it. Ignoran…
06 Dec 2020, 21:27
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I *have* read it - just finished a few minutes ago - and boy do I have thoughts, but most of them have to wait until the spoilage period has passed. I found it much easier going t…
19 Jul 2020, 03:00
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Agreed! Dan'l Danehy-Oakes *Maka ki ecela tehani yanke lo!* *--*T?a???ke Witk?…
31 Jan 2020, 17:01
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I often think it's comical--Fal, lal, la! How Nature always does contrive--Fal, lal, la! That every boy and every gal That's born into the world alive Is either a little Li…
30 Jan 2020, 20:05
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Y'all are, of course, right that we can't and shouldn't be able to control others' speech. We are free, however, to criticize, ignore, and ostracize rude people. And that is what …
30 Jan 2020, 19:23
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If you can't figure out a way to politely tell someone that they are an idiot who should go jump off a pier, your linguistic skills are sadly lacking. And that is no excuse for rud…
30 Jan 2020, 18:32
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Rick, you got it in one. I'm someone who occasionally says some of those rude things. I'm old enough to remember when it was "normal". But I come down fully on the side of "politi…
30 Jan 2020, 16:08
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I have a better question. Have *you* read *Starship Troopers*? Because you're making a false statement about it. "Only people who have served in the military can vote" - thanks fo…
28 Jan 2020, 18:05
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I think it is safe to say that Heinlein *never *"loved" or advocated a military dictatorship. Dan'l Danehy-Oakes *Maka ki ecela tehani yanke lo!* *--*T?a???ke Witk?…
28 Jan 2020, 15:32
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What also needs mentioning is that the "generation starship" was not a new concept with Heinlein either. What he originated (as far as I know) is the idea that the people aboard mi…
27 Jan 2020, 22:24
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The criminal on the scaffold in Silk's enlightenment? Obviously Jesus. Who says enlightenment only works backwards? I suspect that Severian _does_ lie, or at least makes mistakes.…
05 Sep 2018, 17:36
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...except, again, that we have auctorial statement that Jesus *is* absent from the Solar universe. That doesn't actually bother me a great deal, as I am inclined to "the text is t…
05 Sep 2018, 16:09
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Actually I think of the Solar Cycle as a *previous* cycle of the Universe. This explains the "archaeological" approch in the BotNS afterwords, and I believe that Wolfe would say th…
05 Sep 2018, 14:21
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Maybe it's my aging eyes, but I can't make it out. Dan'l Danehy-Oakes When faced with two alternatives, I always like to choose the fourth.…
14 Aug 2018, 14:55
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I'm not sure what you mean about Severian's sword belonging to "a lictor...never mentioned in the text." Severian is a lictor. The Mithras thing also ties in with the Old Autarch …
17 Feb 2018, 16:45
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes The spatula is the natural enemy of the hypothalamus. On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 7:02 PM, Eric Bourland <eb at hwaet.com> wrote: Some questions, for those who wi…
16 Nov 2017, 03:55
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Pandaemonium Dan'l Danehy-Oakes The spatula is the natural enemy of the hypothalamus.…
30 Sep 2017, 16:07
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Yes, Urth is one of the three Norns - as are the names given to the future Mars and Venus in tBotNS (Verthandi and ... duh, something else...). And there is, I think, some evidenc…
29 Sep 2017, 17:22
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The only adaptation I know of which actually was completed was the "radio play" of "The Tree Is My Hat," which featured Neil Gaiman as the Reverend, which was performed at some con…
29 Apr 2015, 15:34
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"Stick it up your rear." Typical Puppy reasoning...…
29 Apr 2015, 04:36
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Well, it's an interesting theory, though Blackbeard was born in England.…
29 Apr 2015, 04:26
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OK, the word "foil" was wrong. But they all tend to the goddess/bitch/whore trichotomy into which female characters are too often written by men. (Really, from reading some of his …
28 Apr 2015, 21:21
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I'm very bad with names.…
28 Apr 2015, 18:42
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Of course the Hugos are a popularity contest; they are a fan-based award. Nonetheless, they have a history of picking pretty good (though not necessarily the "best") book on a year…
28 Apr 2015, 17:21
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Seems unlikely - Blackbeard would have been 12 at the time of the Port Royal earthquake, which appears to have happened _after_ the main action of Pirate Freedom.…
28 Apr 2015, 17:14
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To call the Hugos "politicized" is to miss the point: it is the Puppies who have truly politicized them, who have put up a slate with a political agenda. To say that they were slan…
28 Apr 2015, 16:41
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Fair enough, Marc, but ... I honestly think there *is* a problem with Wolfe's female characters. The only one I can think of who actively engaged me _as a person_ (rather than as a…
28 Apr 2015, 16:23
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I've heard that about the needle's eye gate, too, but according to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_a_needle#Gate), there's no real evidence for it.…
27 Apr 2015, 17:23
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Lee, Jesus' concern/love for the poor/common man was actually a continuation/ confirmation of what several of the Prophets in the Old Testament had said on the subject. It would …
27 Apr 2015, 16:35
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I've always wondered about that phrase, "unwashed Philistines." Is there any reason to believe that Philistines bathed less frequently than their neighbors? Inquiring minds want t…
24 Apr 2015, 20:08
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Actually, there is one notable anti-gay statement in the NT, but it's Paul, not Jesus. And you're right to wonder how many wives the Sanhedrin might have had; Paul says that an el…
24 Apr 2015, 18:37
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Ummmm. Not to be argumentative, but, no, Jesus' ministry was *not* an attack on Judaism; to the extent that it was an attack at all, it was an attack on the hypocrisy of the pries…
24 Apr 2015, 15:57
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For what it's worth, "-latry" is an important term in Catholicism, usually in the form "latria." Latria is the worship to which only God is entititled; what we offer to the saints …
22 Apr 2015, 15:42
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H'mm. How ... cryptic.…
17 Apr 2015, 00:46
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I would suggest Home Fires, which I think is incredible.…
11 Nov 2014, 22:10
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Superversionists?…
11 Nov 2014, 19:18
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For what it's worth, the first three questions are the lyrics to a particularly bad Genesis song...…
03 Nov 2014, 17:25
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Andreas, I agree that you don't need any knowledge of Catholic or Christian faith to understand, well, _most_ Wolfe stories ("The Detective of Dreams" comes to mind as a counter-e…
03 Nov 2014, 17:21
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An interesting quote. We may, I think, assume that Wolfe (like me) assumes that the laws of arithmetic as we know them do not apply in infinities; after all, under the right circu…
17 Oct 2014, 18:29
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All Greeks are men. Socrates is a Greek. Therefore, I like pizza.…
17 Oct 2014, 15:24
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To my amazement, when I totted up my favorites and removed those in the first volume, I came up with exactly fifty. 1. Against the Lafayette Escadrille <http://www.wolfewiki.c…
16 Oct 2014, 17:54
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While I might concede the limits of the human brain (given sufficient evidence to do so), it has been demonstrated (note I do *not* say "proven") repeatedly that the vantage point …
15 Oct 2014, 18:04
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Lee, as far as I can tell, your argument comes down to "I can imagine someplace where logic and math don't apply, therefore we must assume that they exist until we can prove they d…
15 Oct 2014, 17:45
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Antonio, as a Catholic I simply can't accept it because I believe there is such thing as an absolute truth. Logic plays a part in this, and mathematics (which is independent of any…
10 Oct 2014, 18:42
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Lee: No, not a human brain. A human *soul*.…
10 Oct 2014, 15:24
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Actually, math *doesn't* require numbers as such. All of number theory can be reduced to set theory.…
10 Oct 2014, 15:24
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Frederick - if Moses didn't have free will, he wouldn't have smote the rock a second time...…
10 Oct 2014, 15:23
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Frederick, no. God did not "decide" who would be damned/saved; He *knew* who would be damned/saved. There is a key difference. He creates beings with free will, but because of omni…
09 Oct 2014, 16:37
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Actually, Newtonian physics arises from quantum physics. When the systems involved are large enough for decoherence to take over... Nonetheless, I take your point. But I would say…
08 Oct 2014, 18:51
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Brendon, it is your point 2) that I am defending.…
08 Oct 2014, 17:48
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