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Just a reminder that _Pirate Freedom_ is not yet published (Amazon US and UK both cite November 13 as the release date). It's delightful to hear some impressions from early read…
29 Aug 2007, 03:59
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Jessica Maclean asks, "Maitre" is the French word corresponding to the English "Master". It's actually spelled "Ma?tre", where the circumflex, as is often the case in French, …
06 May 2007, 22:39
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Transentient <transentient at gmail.com> asks: The best candidate I could find in an hour of online research was "colophon". This is the term used today for an account of the ma…
15 Jan 2007, 01:47
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Theresa Flemming asks, Even better, in my opinion. Egypt and the lands to the south have some _very_ charismatic gods for Latro to see and chat with, but he still has to meet hi…
21 Nov 2006, 07:04
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I meant that Latro, not Wolfe, can't foreshadow the way Severian can. It is true, as I guess you're suggesting, that nothing prevents Wolfe from injecting foreshadowing into the …
14 Nov 2006, 22:30
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I'm done with my first reading, and I'm ready to join a discussion once enough other people are done so that we can be free with the spoilers. This is going to be fun. We've go…
14 Nov 2006, 06:44
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Speculation: Either 1. They are released somehow--apprenticed to another guild that takes orphans, or, more likely given the nature of the age, 2. they are executed (by legal …
31 Oct 2006, 05:19
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My own theory about the passage that Brent Dyer cites is that the juxtaposition between Severian's casual treatment of the possibility of sex between him and the boy, and the pos…
31 Oct 2006, 05:05
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Roy's use of "bogus" may simply have been referring to doubts about the historical existence of Catherine of Alexandria. -- Dan Rabin…
26 Oct 2006, 17:25
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Hmm. I always assumed that these two were perfectly ordinary guild members whose names happened not to be used in these references because Severian was talking about their roles…
26 Oct 2006, 05:46
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Fred Kiesche asks: There are no significant divergences that I've ever noticed. Some typos are corrected, some retained, some introduced perhaps. The omnibus is missing the po…
04 Jul 2006, 13:52
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Jesper Svedberg points us to "The Computer Iterates the Greater Trumps", and says, Very much so! I particularly note that, despite Wolfe's reported claims of ignorance of compu…
14 Feb 2006, 21:30
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Perhaps "both of mine" refers to "Arthur" and "Able" rather than "Arthur" and "Ormsby". -- Dan Rabin…
15 Jan 2005, 21:10
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Hmpf MacSlow asks about the familiarity of the word "barbican" to native speakers of English. It's a really important question, because Wolfe's use of unfamiliar words and neolo…
05 Dec 2004, 21:23
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Robert Borski has pointed out some very close correspondences between Wolfe's treatments the Annese of _Fifth Head_ and of the Ascians of _New Sun_. I don't, however, find myself …
30 Mar 1999, 23:11
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