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No love for the freshly hatched chick twixt Jolenta's chafing thighs? That description scarred me as a child, to be fair. Ha ha! Well, I never said Wolfe hadn't created augment…
28 Apr 2015, 19:14
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Long Sun/Short Sun at least has some of my favourite female characters in all fiction: Nettle, Marble, Mucor, Olivine.…
28 Apr 2015, 18:48
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Since Lafferty came up, you might be interested in our discussion about Puppies on the Lafferty Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/eastoflaughter/search/?query=sad%20…
28 Apr 2015, 18:06
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Thank you, Marcos! Very enlightening. I had clocked this at a very rough and intuitive level, but it's great to hear it confirmed and expanded upon by a specialist. "He seems to b…
05 Jan 2015, 10:06
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Awesome, thank you for that overview! I'm going to take note of all those titles. I think Powers is excellent. Here's what I wrote about him last year: http://ridethenightmare.bl…
21 Nov 2014, 17:21
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That's another piece I've wanted to write for years: a tripartite review of Wolfe's *Pirate Freedom*, Lafferty's *Annals of Klepsis *(about a pirate planet), and Tim Powers's *On …
21 Nov 2014, 16:35
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Excellent. Thank you for that quote. I've always loved Wolfe's wonderfully weird 'Try and Kill It'. I'm hoping eventually to write some pieces about bears in Wolfe, Lafferty, Va…
21 Nov 2014, 16:06
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I thought Ares was a particularly unrealised apprentice novel. I might get more out of it someday when I want to delve even deeper into how Wolfe grew as an artist. Devil is not …
11 Nov 2014, 22:04
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I loved There Are Doors - minor in a way, but really weird and interesting overall. Operation Ares to me is only for the completist.…
11 Nov 2014, 21:15
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Awesome. I am officially a superversive.…
11 Nov 2014, 19:34
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Great, Marc! Loved the section on Trip Trap especially. I think I've not consciously tried to understand where Wolfe fits in between Modernism and Postmodernism all this time and…
11 Nov 2014, 18:20
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Forgot to bring my headphones with me to the university library today, but I look forward to checking this out when I get home! Thanks! -DOJP…
11 Nov 2014, 13:24
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Well put, Antonio. Some take Wolfe's open-ended and polyvalent narrations as evidence of either a lack of commitment to any certain set of beliefs on his own part, or lack of a de…
04 Nov 2014, 13:28
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The Eucharistic (and other theological) imagery is far from merely ornamental.…
09 Oct 2014, 15:14
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I agree with you up to the 'nothing more', Andrew. For it is, of course, possible for the technical quality you describe to be central and yet also for Wolfe's many evocations of …
07 Oct 2014, 10:49
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That's a kind of beautiful theory, Lee. -DOJP…
11 Sep 2014, 18:26
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Marc, I haven't been able to do more than peruse a handful of the story commentaries you've posted here, but I've thoroughly enjoyed what I perused. I would read a printed book of…
01 Aug 2014, 11:12
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One of my favourite stories by Wolfe: I've often wondered about the creature. As I recall, some character says, laughingly, that its victim probably *thought* it was a devil or d…
15 Jul 2014, 08:20
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I'm glad you brought this up. I've always thought the most interesting thing about Wolfe's divine Outsider as compared to Lovecraft's Outsider is that both are monsters of sorts: …
30 Jun 2014, 18:39
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I just saw him mention King for the first time the other day (at least I think he meant* Stephen* King). It's in *Castle of Days*, a very clever little self-interview piece called…
29 May 2014, 11:45
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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.* That's cool to hear about liking *Apocalypses*, D…
02 Apr 2014, 18:57
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I'm pretty sure they were published nowhere else but as this omnibus. A slightly strange little publishing venture.…
02 Apr 2014, 18:53
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Yeah, ha ha, I've often looked at it and thought 'well, can't stop there, oh and you can't stop there', etc.…
02 Apr 2014, 13:50
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Yes, he wrote a brilliant afterword to it. But I always suspected he was handed that one to read and write an afterword for - I'm sure he sincerely liked it, but he'd already been…
02 Apr 2014, 13:02
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"I just finished *Apocalypses*, I think it is my favorite Lafferty. Loved it from start to finish." So glad to hear you say that bout that book, Antonin! I think I've heard a fai…
02 Apr 2014, 12:20
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Blaylock too? I knew they were friends but all this time I had no idea he was Catholic as well...…
30 Mar 2014, 00:31
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*It's not coincidence that the best High SF writers of the latter 20th and early 21st centuries* are Roman Catholics (but I'm still sticking to my house church).* Wolfe, Lafferty, …
29 Mar 2014, 23:26
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*IIEC Wolfe was fairly harsh on the emotional level in ascribing the cruel humor of a Turkish joke book to the Turks' lack of Christianity in the Jordan interview.* Ah, interestin…
29 Mar 2014, 12:47
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*Ecumenical RAL was not.* Don't count him out too quick on that - ever read his 'Ishmael into the Barrens' (similar in theme to 'And Walk Now Gently Through the Fire')? ('Ishmael…
29 Mar 2014, 10:25
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*DOJP has written a few great reviews of his Lafferty explorations on his blog recently, which I note that he's too modest to mention here :)* *http://antsofgodarequeerfish.blogsp…
12 Mar 2014, 17:59
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Just finished R. A. Lafferty's late novel *Serpent's Egg* (1987) last week - mad brilliance as always. (Read John Williams's *Butcher's Crossing* just before that - existential buf…
12 Mar 2014, 13:58
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*http://jdbookreview.com/gene-wolfe-no-comparison/ <http://jdbookreview.com/gene-wolfe-no-comparison/> interview:> Whether you subscribe to the theory that Wolfe is some kind of ho…
29 Dec 2013, 17:53
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Tantalising review! http://io9.com/dont-expect-to-figure-out-gene-wolfes-new-novel-the-f-1484516074 -DOJP…
17 Dec 2013, 20:18
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Pretty cool to see that even hipsters can dig Wolfe (scroll down to Kirk Clawes's picks). I think Stephen King and Stephen Graham Jones were the only other 'genre' authors feature…
17 Dec 2013, 20:10
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Got this alert from the Goodreads Gene Wolfe group: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1614149-help-some-details-in-the-shadow?utm_medium=email&utm_source=comment_instant#commen…
16 Dec 2013, 19:58
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I think this is a rather gorgeous and exemplary review of Wolfe's enigmatic memoir: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/755546337 -DOJP…
16 Dec 2013, 09:37
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Gwern Branwen <gwern at gwern.net> 4:30 AM (3 hours ago) to Urth _The Fall of Rome_ has come up once or twice on the Lafferty forums. It's a pretty odd book. I had the opportunity…
03 Dec 2013, 08:14
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Ouch. Doesn't bode well for the Lafferty Library!…
02 Dec 2013, 23:39
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Antonin, I agree about the cover. Fred, what's the beef with Pelan? Never heard of him before now... -DOJP…
02 Dec 2013, 23:29
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I know this list occasionally gets used for Lafferty news as well (rightly so, since Wolfe considers Lafferty and actual and true genius), so I just wanted to make sure folks new C…
02 Dec 2013, 21:16
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City & the City's a very good conversation partner to bring in, yes! I've only read the excerpt online of Wolfe's new book but having read Mieville's I can already tell they work …
02 Dec 2013, 20:52
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Hi, folks. I finally wrote something new about Wolfe and almost forgot to link to it here on this list. It's not on my Wolfe blog this time, but was part of a '30 Days of Hallowe…
01 Nov 2013, 10:27
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*I like the idea of the "Horror of the Holy". It reminds me of how often in the Old Testament God is described as "terrible" and "awful", and how something as otherworldly as an a…
22 Oct 2013, 19:47
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yay, a were-wolfe story!…
22 Oct 2013, 19:45
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I need to get back to them, Antonin! Glad you enjoyed them. Busy doing '30 Days of Halloween' on my Ride the Nightmare blog right now. Haven't posted on Wolfe yet for this serie…
22 Oct 2013, 18:20
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Wow. Feels a bit like Swift meets Kafka. (With, interestingly, a hint of China Mieville thrown in.) Very disorienting and weird. The dudes with lanterns felt almost numinous. …
22 Oct 2013, 15:40
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Yeah, I saw this before. Most of them are pretty good advice. You can tell the prolific Mr. Wolfe practices what he preaches! -DOJP…
26 Aug 2013, 15:03
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'He realizes that he has very little freedom and it is all set up. However, Mamelta is swallowed by the giant fish, and I think this too is a symbol - that Kypris is subsumed by so…
24 Aug 2013, 17:12
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Yes. I honestly think 'sublime' is a sober and appropriate assessment. -DOJP…
19 Aug 2013, 19:26
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It is very refreshing to hear some rather unalloyed praise of this series (its beginning anyway). Not because I don't also enjoy the warranted critique that many have pursued, but…
19 Aug 2013, 16:52
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