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Other philosophies, to be sure. I agree. Oh, but! You have such giants as LaHaye and Jenkins! (Ducking and running...) Seriously, there are some pretty darn good Protestant wri…
26 Oct 2011, 18:09
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Lee Berman wrote: ... well, no point in quoting; I concede the facts, and further agree that it's clear that Hethor, at some point, crewed aboard The Ship. But that's a far cry fr…
26 Oct 2011, 17:21
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Remember that for us (I too am an adult convert to Catholicism, among other things) the wor(l)d was spoken -- is in itself a kind of text. The Word of God was made flesh, and indee…
26 Oct 2011, 17:05
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Well, a fair point here. But in a story that is so much about the telling of stories, something of the nature of storytelling seems to be part of the story. I agree with what you …
26 Oct 2011, 16:45
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But if you tell a story about your childhood, and _someone else_ causes you to put Kirsten Dunst into it, and afterwards you remember Kirsten Dunst being a part of it ... well, tha…
26 Oct 2011, 16:42
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Somehow I'm reminded of a Discworld thing ... a standing stone that can't be counted. But you're right, there's a dreamlike quality to everything about the Neighbors (and a fever-…
26 Oct 2011, 16:35
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Ummmmm. It seems to me that Wolfe is deliberately posing a dilemma about memory (and time-travel) with Incanto's dream-travel. When he changes something in someone's past, they re…
26 Oct 2011, 16:28
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I would have no problem reading it or any Wolfe book on a train. But I generally remove the dustwrapper from hardcovers while I read them.…
25 Oct 2011, 19:26
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See, now, I actually _like_ that one -- and in fact, the first three Maitz covers for tBotNS. I recognize, in retrospect, that they aren't very good representations of the action, …
25 Oct 2011, 18:20
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No. No, no, no, no, nonononononoNO.…
24 Oct 2011, 20:36
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H'mmmm. OK, I think I see where you're coming from. It doesn't, as you say, work for me, but I can at least see why it does for you.…
24 Oct 2011, 17:57
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David Stockhoff wrote: With all due respect to Michael Andre-Driussi, I do not take LU as an authority, just a useful reference. If someone has their copy handy, can you cite the …
24 Oct 2011, 17:09
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David Stockhoff wrote: ... at the end of an excellent post... OK, a couple of people have taken to referring to the Old Autarch as Appian. Is there any actual evidence for this? …
24 Oct 2011, 15:54
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Well, Lee, you have never explained it to my satisfaction either. I simply do not see what the interpretive benefit of this theory (finding Inire everywhere) is, or how to reconcil…
24 Oct 2011, 15:42
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Agreed. But when you're dealing with a writer who insists that there is only one Theoanthropos in the history of all universes, that becomes semirelevant at best. Can you point to…
22 Oct 2011, 20:25
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Then how explain the references to the Theoanthropos? My suggestion is that there was a historical person named Jesus who did many of the things Christ did, but who was not God. M…
22 Oct 2011, 17:03
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A good film but a lousy adaptation. IMO.…
22 Oct 2011, 16:54
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He-He-Hethor?…
21 Oct 2011, 21:28
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While I remain extremely dubious here, one can see the outlines of a grand unification theory based on the already-mooted idea that humans and human descendants are the only true s…
20 Oct 2011, 21:28
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Don't forget margarine. And legend has it that mayonnaise was invented _for_ Napoleon. He liked to have his chefs dedicate a new dish to every major town he conquered, and mayonna…
20 Oct 2011, 20:00
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I can't make that leap. Dorcas's husband is the man she is mourning at the end of tBotNS. Inire is not dead, but her husband is.…
20 Oct 2011, 03:28
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No, but I believe that if they were going to call a thousand days a "year," they would've called a hundred days a "month;" contrariwise, if they were going to call a hundred days a…
19 Oct 2011, 20:11
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David, Gerry -- I agree with both of you. Knowing about the Proust connection is not necessary for understanding and enjoying "Suzanne Delage." However, if you do know it, it pro…
17 Oct 2011, 20:56
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I would say that this is an Earth- (or Urth-) centric idea. The distinction between "plant" and "animal" need not apply on an alien world.…
16 Oct 2011, 16:06
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Ummmm, not so much -- when Severian writes the BotNS, the events of UotNS haven't happened yet. I suspect that it just went out of business.…
22 Sep 2011, 21:23
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H'mmm. I've liked his art since his run on "Thor." Granted, he's not in my top ten or anything but his art definitely gets the job done.…
11 Aug 2011, 18:01
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Hunh. Not the ones I'm familiar with. Simonson art, eh...…
11 Aug 2011, 17:55
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If they're the ones published in the '80s by Pacific/First Comics, they're very true to the stories.…
11 Aug 2011, 17:48
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Well, *almost* every Moorcock -- there was his ERB ripoff written purely for money. I can't go quite that far. It helps to understand that there appear to be two writers living i…
11 Aug 2011, 17:02
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I on the other hand was not surprised to learn that I'd read the overwhelming majority of these -- 76 of 100, and that's not counting a few that I started and gave up on.…
11 Aug 2011, 16:50
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People, it's just a popularity contest...…
11 Aug 2011, 15:40
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I've really enjoyed Cherie Priest's "Clockwork Century" novels, BONESHAKER and DREADNOUGHT. Whether that makes them "good" is another question. One that I'm quite sure is "good" i…
10 Aug 2011, 03:19
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If you like that aspect of JRRT, you should definitely check out Steven Erikson. He is an anthropologist/archaeologist rather than a linguist, but he uses his own areas of expertis…
08 Aug 2011, 16:40
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H'mmm. I would never have thought of that but it sort of works. I really enjoyed Anathem for what it was -- an alternate-world novel with a reasonably interesting premise. When th…
05 Aug 2011, 16:09
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Ooooh. Vance's "Demon Princes" are classic villains.…
05 Aug 2011, 16:07
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I thought of him but decided he'd been ruined for me in the second/first trilogy.…
05 Aug 2011, 15:52
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Vladimir Harkonnen. 2011/8/5 Ant?nio Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com>:…
05 Aug 2011, 15:33
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The thing about the Malazan books is, they're both huge-scale and minutely-detailed. This seems paradoxical, but it isn't; Erikson is dealing with huge cosmic concepts, but dealing…
04 Aug 2011, 15:32
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Boy, that was surprisingly hard. I had to make a list and then cross off till I had only 10 left, and I might have chosen a couple of others on a different day. I wound up voting …
03 Aug 2011, 20:14
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I don't debate that tBotNS deserves to make this cut. I would argue that THE FEMALE MAN equally deserved it.…
02 Aug 2011, 19:55
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Sigh. Not a single book by a woman made the list.…
28 Jul 2011, 15:27
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It's clearly a list based on what's currently new on the stands. Given that, it isn't a bad list.…
05 Jul 2011, 22:42
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Oops, brain fart. I meant ... "if you haven't read New Sun."…
23 Jun 2011, 15:46
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I agree. But is it better if you haven't read "Short Sun?" (I *think* it is anyway, but I haven't experienced it in that order.)…
22 Jun 2011, 20:19
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Actually, they were first proposed by Paul M.A. Dirac in 1930, so no problem there. The positron was conceived of as a "hole in the Dirac sea" before it was recognized as an anti-e…
08 Jun 2011, 17:46
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I think what they really reflect is a great deal of handwaving on Wolfe's part, and a not insignificant quantity of willing suspension of disbelief on the reader's part.…
08 Jun 2011, 17:13
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Eeeeeyeah, but . The calculations below don't take dilation into account. I'm just sayin'.…
02 Jun 2011, 19:36
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You haven't hung around with SF fans very much, I take it. Let me assure you that if there is any scientific wonkiness in an SF story, there will be someone (quite possibly someon…
01 Jun 2011, 16:59
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I suspect the landers do use fusion technology, but we really don't know. I believe the Long Sun is powered by Illudium Fosdex.…
31 May 2011, 18:34
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2011/5/26 Ant?nio Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com>: "I do not like it. There are too many notes."…
26 May 2011, 17:36
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