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Some say more. They are certainly equally maddening.…
04 Dec 2008, 18:50
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Are those our only choices?…
04 Dec 2008, 18:48
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And also Talitha (in the Book of Acts); and also the boy Elijah raises. Christ is unique in that nobody resurrects him, he does it himself.…
03 Dec 2008, 23:46
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Mark Twain summarized them pretty well in his essay "Literary Offenses of Fenimore Cooper." http://ww3.telerama.com/~joseph/cooper/cooper.html…
01 Dec 2008, 23:42
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On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Matthew Groves <matthewalangroves at gmail.com Yes. I have no objection to Nessus being BA in the sense that it is also Byzantium.…
01 Dec 2008, 21:57
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Nessus as B.A. is *not* universally accepted. There is a small group, of whom I am one, who take it as given that the continents have changed by the time of the NS. It appears that…
01 Dec 2008, 17:14
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I am the Fox!…
21 Nov 2008, 16:55
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To be precise: they are _all_ Uncreated. The Father does not "create" but "begets" the Son, and the Holy Spirit "proceeds" from them both. (This is slightly different for the Easte…
19 Nov 2008, 18:58
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Ummmm ... the Autarch supposedly has no children.…
18 Nov 2008, 18:38
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Ahhh... Con crud...…
18 Nov 2008, 00:49
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This is often repeated, and NOT true. You had to do a tour of government service, but it did not have to be military. However, once you volunteered, you went where they put you, so…
06 Nov 2008, 21:28
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I'd do a piece. Anyone else?…
06 Nov 2008, 21:25
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One thing about this election that I think GW would appreciate. A nation lives by its myths about itself. One of America's myths about itself is that "anybody can grow up to be Pr…
05 Nov 2008, 19:32
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There's a passage -- I can't recall whether it's in the Book proper or Castle of the Otter -- where either Severian or Wolfe says that each continent has its proper racial "type" o…
31 Oct 2008, 17:22
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Me too.…
30 Oct 2008, 17:22
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I think the point of fuligin is that it doesn't reflect light at all. Albedo 0.…
23 Oct 2008, 23:55
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I didn't realize that these were all out of print! I knew "Ares" was, and Wolfe has more or less vowed that it will never be reprinted. Too bad, because it's actually better (imho)…
10 Oct 2008, 16:05
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The only Wolfe/Gaiman collaboration I know of is "A Walking Tour of the Shambles," and it happeneda few years back.…
06 Oct 2008, 18:06
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That would be a very odd thing for me, as an adult convert to Catholicism, to argue! I will point out, to begin with, that at least some of those copper-blooded mollusks are edibl…
22 Sep 2008, 20:46
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Ummm. I'm moving in the reverse direction: we know that the Briahverse *does* have a Creator; given that, it does not seem unreasonable for Him to arrange for life to be compatible…
22 Sep 2008, 19:15
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4) In a universe with a Creator, where evolution is guided by the Creator's will, all life on all worlds may be compatible in this sense.…
22 Sep 2008, 15:58
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You playtest girls?…
22 Sep 2008, 00:59
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As you may or may not have noticed, I've recently become active on the wiki again. Please let me know when the new location is open for editing.…
12 Sep 2008, 17:40
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Actually, I doubt that you're NGI; it's a simple tale that I personally find quite chilling.…
22 Aug 2008, 16:24
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I would certainly include the Archipelagan stories from that collection, as well as "Seven American Nights," "Three Fingers," "Feather Tigers," and "Tracking Song." I would also i…
21 Aug 2008, 20:49
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Given that the fifty years in question includes, among other things, the complete careers of Roger Zelazny -- and whatever you say about Amber, he was a master of the short story -…
21 Aug 2008, 17:01
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Sigh. If it has just one story I haven't got ... maybe something from Bibliomen or Plan(e)t Engineering ... I'll doubtless buy it...…
21 Aug 2008, 03:52
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I think it's time to inhume this thread...…
14 Aug 2008, 21:27
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Kieran, Since you asked, "Anal retentive" should be hyphenated when used as a compound adjective -- "Oh, that's just my anal-retentive tendencies" -- but not when used as a noun …
14 Aug 2008, 04:34
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Then I suggest you run-don't-walk to your favorite bookseller and get copies of Dan Simmons' HYPERION and THE FALL OF HYPERION, two of the finest SF novels not by Wolfe in the past…
21 Jul 2008, 20:02
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I was referring to the Watchman, who insists on his view of morality in the face of Armageddon.…
18 Jul 2008, 20:52
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So you apply Rorschach's standard?…
18 Jul 2008, 18:19
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It isn't that the wars were necessarily just, only that their leaders told them that they were. That's all most people need.…
17 Jul 2008, 16:34
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It seems to be fixed now.…
16 Jul 2008, 17:56
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1. Apologies to all on the list for spam sent from my account yestermorn. I had forgotten this quote. As far as I am concerned it means that Sev, at least, believes that the Hiero…
16 Jul 2008, 17:55
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Certainly a possibility. This begs the question though: is there textual evidence that they have, in fact, had a Word from God? ...heh... South America alone has the teeming metr…
11 Jul 2008, 21:46
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I agree with everything you say here, wiht the possible exception of the last sentence (God seems to like suffering and sacrifice an awful lot). I was pointing out that there are …
11 Jul 2008, 20:13
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Well, there's a further point here: one can claim that *any* action, by *anyone*, is part of God's Plan. To do this is to create moral anarchy for humans -- "Yes, I killed six mill…
11 Jul 2008, 18:54
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I was just being silly, Marc...…
08 Jul 2008, 22:36
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Let's try to make this as simple as possible... Hierogrammates (whom some here call simply "Hieros") are the human race of the previoius cycle of the Universe, or their descendant…
07 Jul 2008, 21:23
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There is some cause to believe that the sword is not symmetrical: it has recognizeable "male" and "female" sides.…
03 Jul 2008, 16:58
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All that is required is that he be at least as large as the undines, and get trapped when the new continent arises. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.…
18 Jun 2008, 18:02
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Fred, As would I (though "Star Pit" is included in the short story collection). I think what Powers is doing is very different from what Gaiman is doing. Powers is more truly *Am…
16 Jun 2008, 20:08
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Correct. Christ is referred to in the BotNS as "the Theoanthropos."…
16 Jun 2008, 16:28
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It isn't just a flood; new continents are thrust up. If Abaia, who is pretty huge, couldn't get out of the way in time, he would be left a rotting corpse on one of the new continen…
13 Jun 2008, 14:25
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James, That was my first reaction. I didn't like it at all on first reading, and thought it was basically a dumbing-down of the series by giving away stuff that we were meant to f…
11 Jun 2008, 23:14
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The numbers I've seen for an effective solar sail are in the range of tens of thousands of miles.…
11 Jun 2008, 15:27
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Tzadkiel's Ship -- *counting its sails*, is significantly bigger than a mile in diameter, at least for purposes of shadow-casting. Solar sails have to be (a) very very large and (b…
10 Jun 2008, 16:30
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Sorry, I don't mean to cause confusion -- "Northern California" in my world means "everything north of Monterey." I live in the SF bay area, in a town called Alameda.…
16 May 2008, 15:01
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I quibble: this is only true for some values of the words "about," "science fiction," and even "is." I.e., there is no doubt that in some important sense _The Space Merchants_ "is…
14 May 2008, 16:06
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