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No, because Pygmalion did not give life to Galatea.…
01 Oct 2012, 16:25
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You know, that gives me a great idea for a fantasy trilogy...…
28 Sep 2012, 18:26
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Well, that's what the Narrator believes. That doesn't make it true.…
18 Sep 2012, 15:55
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Sorry, no, I don't have a link; the information comes from Michael and he hasn't even posted it on the Sirius Fiction site yet.…
21 Aug 2012, 19:08
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Michael Andre-Driussi has a new concordance coming out for the books of the Long/Short sun. It's called "Gate of Horn, Book of Silk," and it looks pretty good. It's divided into tw…
21 Aug 2012, 18:50
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I'll also speak out in favor of Martin -- he wrote what I consider to be THE best rock'n'roll novel of all time, THE ARMAGEDDON RAG. The ASOIAF books, to my mind, are brutally hone…
01 Aug 2012, 18:19
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Nice collection of writers -- but who's this Aramini guy?…
18 Jun 2012, 15:19
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Nice writeup (as usual). One other puppetry allusion -- Stromboli is the name of the puppeteer who kidnaps Pinocchio.…
06 Jun 2012, 20:11
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GKC was a "distributist," a philosophy that has no real parallel in modern politics. There's a decent Wikipedia article on it.…
05 Jun 2012, 03:05
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Well, one has to allow for his ideas about things like women's suffrage...…
01 Jun 2012, 20:05
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Chesterton is wonderful, especially when he's just tossing ideas about.…
01 Jun 2012, 17:42
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Also of note: the economy of this future world has reversed the concept of "retirement" -- only the elderly are obliged to work for a living.…
25 May 2012, 21:02
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Heavens, no it isn't. I've been wondering if you could get a book out of it, actually. I read an interview with Roger Zelazny, and he said that the reason he called the story "No …
22 May 2012, 15:36
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The Tarot is not the organizational schema of NOVA, but it's one of the things used to produce meaning.…
07 May 2012, 23:47
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Antonin Scriabin wrote: Honestly, it's just as likely that they wanted to establish the character as a geek/nerd and went for the geekiest book they could think of...especially gi…
02 May 2012, 17:29
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Eddison's an interesting case -- a Goddess-worshipping romantical type who seems to think that medieval times were better than modern because they were full of honor and stuff. The…
19 Apr 2012, 16:00
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Marc -- Thank you. You have put eloquently what I stumbled to say.…
18 Apr 2012, 19:18
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The style is certainly part of it; there were places in _Little, Big_ where I felt that Crowley was ... well, not exactly talking down to the reader, but I can't think of a better …
18 Apr 2012, 16:44
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On the other hand... There's something about Crowley that works for some people and not others. I'm one of the others. I read all of _Little, Big_ and ultimately asked myself, "So…
18 Apr 2012, 16:35
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I am so embarrassed that I didn't name Cordwainer Smith.…
17 Apr 2012, 19:14
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Oooh. Lucius Shepard.…
17 Apr 2012, 19:07
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Have you read anything of his more recent than _Dhalgren_?…
17 Apr 2012, 19:06
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OK, I've made my point and I don't intend to spend a lot of effort defending it, but... Off the top of my head, I'd name Ted Sturgeon and Chip Delany, both of whom have written am…
17 Apr 2012, 18:49
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It is not that Wolfe's female characters fail to follow some template -- rather that they _do_ follow a template, the Goddess-Virgin-Whore cliche. His female characters do not seem…
17 Apr 2012, 18:27
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Well, one would be his female characters.…
17 Apr 2012, 18:11
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If you like Powers you should check out his buddy and occasional collaborator James Blaylock.…
17 Apr 2012, 17:58
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Antonin Scriabin wrote: Apocalypses is my favorite Lafferty book, two short novels unrelated except for the general theme of end-of-the-world. "Where have you been, Sandaliotis?"…
17 Apr 2012, 15:42
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Granted the Sign of Jonah, I don't recall anything in Scripture about Jesus taking a sea voyage... Paul took several though.…
16 Apr 2012, 20:10
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Well, like the Secret of the Inhumi...…
13 Apr 2012, 16:04
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Do you care what happens to rapists? Thieves? Jaywalkers? Where do you draw the line on where compassion is no longer required, and how do you draw it? What gives you the right …
12 Apr 2012, 18:27
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I've stayed mostly out of this because I'm actually conflicted about the death penalty. I'm against it at a gut level, but ... What do you do with someone who is in jail for life…
12 Apr 2012, 16:09
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What planet did that come from? (And, yes, I know it was done for a while in some places. Bad plan. Generally messing with someone's body or mind against their will is bad, even as…
12 Apr 2012, 04:01
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Humane.…
11 Apr 2012, 20:11
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I just didn't know what to say about it. I _was_ very impressed.…
11 Apr 2012, 15:57
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I have to say that this would be utterly alien to anything a Catholic (or any mainstream Christian) would believe, as it implies that Mary gave birth to a "normal" child and the Th…
05 Apr 2012, 17:23
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I disagree. Fae _are_ alien, and there is definitely a tradition of their abducting humans. (The class example would probably be the ballad of Tam Lin.) Modern alien abduction stor…
05 Apr 2012, 16:11
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This was one of the first Wolfe stories I read -- yes, in Orbit -- and I remember being very proud of myself (at twelve) for spotting the Peter Pan references...…
05 Apr 2012, 15:18
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"The Grave Secret" is basically a good _Weird Tales_ entry for the classic 30s/40s incarnation of that magazine.…
04 Apr 2012, 17:43
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Hear, hear! 2012/4/4 Ant?nio Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com>:…
04 Apr 2012, 17:09
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Which was the last bit of artistic integrity he ever showed... When did he claim this? I recall Straczynski claiming that he had each season outlined as an arc, and he _did_ write…
03 Apr 2012, 22:36
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Decidedly the latter.…
03 Apr 2012, 19:51
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I call your attention again to the Cathedral of the Pelerines. All power is ultimately divine power. Exactly.…
03 Apr 2012, 18:06
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More to the point, the Three Laws of Robotics are designed to make Asimovian robots the perfect slaves, and thus a coded way of talking about the situation of minority persons in g…
28 Mar 2012, 17:11
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Ummm, no. J.R. " Bob" Dobbs. That seems utterly like the Devil, to encourage a man's besetting sin...…
25 Mar 2012, 21:11
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Ummmm, shoo-fly pie is NOT a southern dessert. It's a Pennsylvania Dutch thing.…
24 Mar 2012, 16:23
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Well, at least you know I was writing for myself and not official Catholic agitprop... ;) Hadn't heard of the other book. Now I'm going to have to get hold of a copy.…
21 Mar 2012, 20:21
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The former, no. Roman slaves had well defined rights. The latter ... I'm not sure about, I'd have to go back to my old history books. I suspect that the answer is yes, though.…
21 Mar 2012, 17:52
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Indeed, no. I regard the so-called Enlightenment as a fundamentally Christian phenomenon -- admittedly in part a reaction against problems in the implementation of Christianity, it…
21 Mar 2012, 17:14
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Possibly you would be more comfortable with the following statement (as a Christian I certainly am): Many Christians feel that their religion is superior because it is [or is clos…
20 Mar 2012, 21:40
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Correct. Wolfe is not writing apologetics; he is writing fantasy/sf in which the truth is, repeatedly and by different devices, hidden, and its revelation is salvific. I would go …
20 Mar 2012, 21:17
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