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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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I am saying that an accurate description of the Universe is independent of the mind in which that description takes place, and that its structure will be similar to the structure o…
08 Oct 2014, 17:20
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Since any alien species we might meet is likely to have a biology based on the same physical laws as ours, I expect their math will be of a similar structure to ours. Such a specie…
08 Oct 2014, 16:44
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Antonio - I think that *that* is the genetic fallacy. You are discarding the evidence of the crow because of where it comes from.…
08 Oct 2014, 16:07
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Thy herring is red, and it stinketh. It is not necessary for a "conch to do math" for its spiral shell-shape to be mathematically based. Its genes, an incredibly powerful computin…
08 Oct 2014, 00:05
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Wherever the interview is, Wolfe is quite correct; in quantum mechanics a particle travelling in one direction in time is the same thing as its antiparticle travelling in the other…
07 Oct 2014, 21:06
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I'm with Daniel here. "Nothing more" applies only in the sense it would apply to Shakespeare or Dickens, who also wrote popular entertainments for the ages. The primary distinction…
07 Oct 2014, 15:57
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Antonio, it was this: While I can see in looking back that you are not saying "He isn't God," it sure looked to me like you were - the next line even more so: Can you see where I…
06 Oct 2014, 18:41
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Marc - Of course you are right that "all humans are equal" is a heretical, Enlightenment, idea: but it is also true that all humans are to be treated, according to the Church, with…
06 Oct 2014, 17:56
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Antonio, I don't know where you're getting your Catholic/Orthodox theology, but it's wrong. Both churches clearly teach (cf. http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/ccc.html) that Jes…
06 Oct 2014, 17:54
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That's actually a really sweet interview.…
02 Oct 2014, 20:13
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But Uncle Martin wasn't green!…
16 Sep 2014, 17:19
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Thank you very much. Now I will never be able to reread tBotNS without envisioning Marvin. Dan'l Danehy-Oakes…
16 Sep 2014, 15:38
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Actually, God never promises that the Earth will not again be flooded - only that He will not do it. And, in New Sun, God does not do it; the Yesodis and Severian do. I like this.…
10 Sep 2014, 20:12
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Question: Given that time travel is the only "real" connection between the two, what is to say that the universe of Long/Short Sun is the same iteration as that of New Sun? Perhaps…
10 Sep 2014, 20:09
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Lee: The Outsider gives Silk a clear vision of the passion of Christ. And Dionysus, as a dying-and-reanimated god, is generally considered a prefigurement of Christ.…
09 Sep 2014, 20:02
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Has nobody before made the connection between Marsch and Marshmen? I'm sure somebody must have (it's an obvious sort of Wolfean wordplay), but I can't recall anyone doing so.…
02 Sep 2014, 15:50
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I think an important point is being missed here. People keep treating "A Story" as if it were reliable. Give some thought to who wrote it and why and then decide whether (and to wh…
11 Aug 2014, 18:44
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This is probably my favorite Wolfe short story, and the first I read. It blew the top of my head off.…
11 Aug 2014, 03:05
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Then I would suggest two volumes, "the short fiction of" and "the novels of."…
01 Aug 2014, 16:31
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Marc, I think it would be worth shopping it to university publishers wihtout the novels - "The Short Fiction of Gene Wolfe" or something like that. Yes, it would be long, but I've…
01 Aug 2014, 15:39
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Paul - you are, of course, correct about "quantized." My bad. And the rest is well said.…
29 Jul 2014, 20:52
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"Do time quanta exist?" Whether spacetime is quantified is a gritty problem. Superstring theory seems to say yes, but superstring theory is, shall we say, far from proven.…
29 Jul 2014, 20:03
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"Three Fingers" remains one of my favorite Wolfe stories. I am, myself, an immense Disney fan/freak who has gone so far as to spend the money to eat at Club 33 just so I could say …
10 Jun 2014, 03:50
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Craig - Your message turned up in my Spam filter. I think gmail is doing that to yahoo addresses kind of at random. --Dan'l…
21 May 2014, 16:17
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Tony - that's how I read it also.…
12 May 2014, 21:00
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Oily coffee implies beans that are overroasted and brewed strong.…
05 May 2014, 20:46
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A couple of things. First, Marc, thank you for all the work you've put into this, and into all the story writeups you've done. I don't often comment because I have very little to …
02 May 2014, 16:07
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William - I believe that this question is answered in the "Short Sun" trilogy. At least tentatively.…
01 May 2014, 23:34
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That would be because Marc changed to Gmail.…
29 Apr 2014, 20:00
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Yes. It's quite irritating, as Marc's posts are always worth reading!…
28 Apr 2014, 17:26
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Oh. Wow. Bummer...…
22 Apr 2014, 14:48
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Antonin - also from that period of Wolfe's work is "'Pandora' by Holly Hollander"…
10 Apr 2014, 00:30
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I didn't say they didn't work for me at all, just not as well. Some of the short stories in 900 Grandmothers are delightful indeed. I haven't read any of the later novels, though K…
02 Apr 2014, 20:02
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My favorite Lafferty too. Unfortunately, it was the first I read and the others I've read simply haven't worked as well for me.…
02 Apr 2014, 15:35
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Not sure about Blaylock, but Powers is definitely a Catholic.…
30 Mar 2014, 00:47
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The Good Fish are, of course, Catholics...for what that's worth in this particular hunt.…
29 Mar 2014, 01:39
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ABEBooks has copies of this and Plan[e]t Engineering for under a hundred. Young Wolfe will set you about $130. They don't seem to have any copies of Letters Home at all.…
17 Mar 2014, 20:15
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Like Stephen, I review (sometimes very briefly) everything I read at my blog, sturgeonslawyer.livejournal.com…
12 Mar 2014, 16:01
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What am I reading? Right now, the last "Wicked Years" book, OUT OF OZ, which is the best since the original WICKED. Before that, an okay urban fantasy.…
12 Mar 2014, 16:00
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Dan, WRT you question about whether there's a compilation of the theories -- not as such. But it would be worth reading Michael Andre-Driussi's books on the subject, which are mor…
12 Feb 2014, 04:02
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Certainly the "Outsider," i.e. the God of Christianity, can and does use such things to further His plans. As Joseph says to his brothers, "What you meant for evil, God meant for g…
31 Jan 2014, 17:05
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"We say Jesus was a carpenter, but the only thing we are told he actually made was a whip." --Gene Wolfe…
31 Jan 2014, 16:26
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Piotr, Thanks for sharing that. Actually, I quite like the cover -- I think it's the second-best cover for PEACE I've seen (the best being the very quiet Gahan Wilson skulls). --…
17 Jan 2014, 22:49
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I would think that the most obvious MacDonald conneciton would be with LILITH.…
06 Jan 2014, 01:33
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I read the first volume and was reasonably impressed, but never got around to the following v's.…
29 Dec 2013, 01:16
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Heh. Jurgen's sword is his penis.…
24 Dec 2013, 19:32
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Connie Willis has a collection of sf/f Christmas stories called "Miracle and other stories." If you like Willis's stuff (I do), you'll probably like it.…
20 Dec 2013, 00:52
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It is sad news, but it has been coming a long time. May she be at peace and Mr Wolfe also.…
16 Dec 2013, 18:53
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