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Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote: I think The Mother and Great Scylla highly qualify as Lovecraftian leviathan monstrosities and I find their presence to have a behin…
30 May 2011, 12:41
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<jerry_friedman at yahoo.com> wrote:I don't see that, though. If you believe in God as Wolfe and Severian do, you don't have to worry much about cosmic horror, just about alien mo…
29 May 2011, 12:33
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Cool. Glad I'm not the only one. Any one know of chat about that on the list? -DOJP…
28 May 2011, 23:22
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On a minor note here, does anyone else find these big beasties a bit Lovecraftian, Cthulhu-esque? I feel Wolfe is engaging with that kind of cosmic horror in the background of the…
28 May 2011, 23:14
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Yeah, like I said, prog and metal. Speaking of which, though, does anyone know what kind of music Gene himself likes to listen to? Craig Brewer to Urth Metal and folk don't of…
23 May 2011, 19:29
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Ha! Frankly, there is a large does of S&M undercurrent in Wolfe. I admit it usually makes me fairly uncomfortable. I suspect others enjoy it. -DOJP…
23 May 2011, 19:18
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Yeah, I've always heard that too. So yeah, cosplay and so on for sure. Gene seems to definitely have some kind of baroque, gothic taste that overlaps with these subcultures (from…
23 May 2011, 19:15
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I love that part. I guess I hadn't thought of it as time travel per se - seemed like more of a spatial bending sort of thing going on there that only *looked* like time disruption…
23 May 2011, 18:50
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Oh yeah! I'd heard he said that before I read AEG and forgot! Amazing! That makes even more sense of the strong impression I was getting that the South Sea island portion of thi…
23 May 2011, 18:43
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So glad to hear you liked it, Antonin! I just finished it and found it VERY interesting and exciting on certain levels (though baffling and frustrating too - which is only to be e…
23 May 2011, 18:20
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Yeah, this just looks like a red herring to me. Wolfe is the 'brilliant student' of far more writers than Vance, many of the others being 'mainstream'. Even if we were to only co…
10 May 2011, 11:17
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I'm scandalized that you loyal urth list folks are voting other than the mighty Wolfe! Treason! (Though I agree BotNS might be better placed in sf. I also voted Hyperion in sf!)…
02 May 2011, 19:28
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'I do think he is saying realistic fiction leaves out the unexplained mystery of life, the majestic grace of the impossible that creeps into our everyday, that ignores things that …
29 Apr 2011, 21:50
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Perhaps if this were Orson Scott Card, I would think you were on to something. Haha! DOJP…
21 Apr 2011, 19:19
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Man, talk about unreliable narratives/narrators! I've totally got snarled in trying to decipher who's said what in this exchange! Anyway, I'm largely rooting for the minority tha…
18 Apr 2011, 20:58
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Does anyone know if there are any other 'The Nebraskan' stories besides this one and 'Lord of the Land'? (The latter is one of my all time fave G.W. short stories, and I was pleas…
17 Apr 2011, 13:24
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So glad people are asking about Severian as unreliable narrator! I suspect it's one of those ideas that someone said in a review and then it got blurbed on a jacket cover and then…
16 Apr 2011, 08:58
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I would say rather that God, as the first cause of all things, is the cause of evil as well as good, and while men are good at identifying little-e evil (the bad things that happen…
13 Apr 2011, 16:07
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Ok, Lane, right, so Silk's conception of God (the Outsider) is not 'occasionalist' (i.e. God *directly* causes all things), but the fact that God 'permits' evil and forces it to se…
13 Apr 2011, 09:30
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I tried to weigh in on Severian's behalf a little more in the comments. One way or the other, I do think Severian would take him out. Now let's see Conan vs. Severian! DOJP…
09 Mar 2011, 09:18
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Yes, I'm shocked there's not more commentary on Wolfe's *many* sympathetically and admiringly painted strong female characters of a wide variety, rather than worrying over misogyny…
09 Mar 2011, 08:33
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Clarification: that urth post heavily criticising the Silk for Calde blog post on the abuse of women was *NOT* from me - that is, not from 'DOJP' (Daniel Otto Jack Petersen) - tho…
09 Mar 2011, 08:14
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I would've thought Gaiman was fairly rollin in it, but I'm not financially savvy, so... (Although he's probably got rich friends that he could convince it was a worthwhile cause.)…
07 Mar 2011, 23:08
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Somebody alert Neil Gaiman! I bet he'd buy this up and do something great with it. He's a huge Lafferty fan. He's definitely Laff's highest profile popularizer right now. -DOJP…
07 Mar 2011, 22:40
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Francis Schaeffer mentioned on a Gene Wolfe website. Cool. Schaeffer's commentary on Cage was the first thing I thought of when you mentioned picking mushrooms with him. DOJP…
08 Feb 2011, 08:24
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Can't resist chiming in with the chorus - crap writing is crap writing and good writing is good writing and genres have zero to do with this. Similar to what some others are sayin…
07 Feb 2011, 23:10
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I think Gaiman is just a huge Wolfe fan like the rest of us and Wolfe is nice enough to return the compliment to a certain degree. But I can easily see how Gaiman is influenced by…
02 Jan 2011, 23:29
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Matthew Keeley to Urth Anyone know if this alternate cover of AEG ever saw release anywhere? I quite like it, even if it's not necessarily a perfect fit for the book it's supposed …
01 Jan 2011, 19:50
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Ah, great, thanks, Tony. I'd only seen the Shadow one - yes, these at least are like (say) Moorcock covers and are not bad (still not quite doing justice for me though). Did you …
01 Jan 2011, 19:03
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No, no, that's the whole point. They are not at all 'exactly what is described in the text'. To do that you would need a rather genius, innovative, subtle, knowledgeable artist w…
01 Jan 2011, 18:26
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Em, not so sure about that. Is Seawrack's hair colour wrong? Horn's hair doesn't look balding at all. Babbie and the Neighbour would require much speculation on the part of the …
01 Jan 2011, 17:30
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Finally! So good to hear someone complain about the ATROCIOUS covers Wolfe gets landed with. I literally have to hide them from family and friends when I'm reading them so they w…
01 Jan 2011, 16:51
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Lane Haygood <lhaygood at gmail.com> wrote: 'If the blogger cannot understand the artistry involved in such a flawed narrator, well, I wish him the best of his Cormac McCarthy.' T…
08 Dec 2010, 10:11
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I suspect he did indeed add it as 'strictly' a means of padding out the story, but that in the writing of it he (consciously or unconsciously) made it a crucial element to the whol…
30 Nov 2010, 12:14
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Ok, Lee, thanks for your thoughts. You've got me thinking more about the flood, especially considering *Urth of the New Sun* features the realisation of this. The meddling/protec…
27 Sep 2010, 21:27
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Lee Burman wrote: 'For me, the underpinnings of BotNS are as an exploration of the interaction between pagan gods and Judeo-Christianity. Wolfe did this by creating an Earth twin w…
27 Sep 2010, 14:43
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Oops. Thanks guys. -DOJP…
16 Sep 2010, 20:57
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