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They did? Yeah, I would've thought they'd do their 'dream-travel' gig. -DOJP 2011/9/20 Ant?nio Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com>…
20 Sep 2011, 12:06
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Thanks for clearing that up about the Neighbours, Gerry. I do recall that's what it was now. Which is weird and disturbing in a way (from our fellow human perspective) - but I gu…
20 Sep 2011, 08:08
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I think I remember hearing on this list the theory that the inhumi (be it just Quetzal or others also in addition to him) boarded the Whorl (presumably by means of the sort of 'spa…
19 Sep 2011, 20:38
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http://podcastle.org/2011/08/23/podcastle-171-the-island-of-doctor-death-and-other-stories/ It starts with the host enthusiastically introducing Wolfe overall... -DOJP…
23 Aug 2011, 21:43
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Ah, very good. I wonder what he thought of it. -DOJP…
22 Aug 2011, 15:07
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Cool! How do you come by this information? -DOJP…
19 Aug 2011, 14:54
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http://comiccrits.blogspot.com/2011/08/home-fires-by-gene-wolfe.html This is a very, very cool way to review Wolfe (or anyone!)... -DOJP…
17 Aug 2011, 19:24
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Somehow I seem to have only read a handful of women writers over the years: Flannery O'Connor is one of my favourite authors, period. Ursula Le Guin impresses me hugely at times.…
03 Aug 2011, 17:36
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Since the topic has turned slightly to Lafferty, I'd be remiss in not mentioning I write the only blog on the net dedicated to him: http://antsofgodarequeerfish.blogspot.com/ (It…
03 Aug 2011, 14:32
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Marc Aramini marcaramini at yahoo.com to Urth:My favorites were probably more likely to be labeled as science fantasists, Zelazny, Philip K Dick, R A Lafferty, Abraham Davidson, Co…
03 Aug 2011, 14:16
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Just got this in my inbox today... expect a snazzy new edition from Gollancz! http://www.gollancz50.com/ -DOJP…
28 Jul 2011, 14:25
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You're probably right, Marc. But being plunged into all that mystery through the wonders of Short Sun is still quite exciting and inviting. I sometimes feel people on this board …
26 Jun 2011, 13:42
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You know, I actually did read On Blue's Waters, then stopped and went back and read Long Sun before then re-reading Blue and the rest of Short Sun. It was indeed a very, very stra…
23 Jun 2011, 16:31
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By the way, I think it says 'five at a time', not that you can only choose five. You can do multiple posts with five recommendations each. DOJP…
23 Jun 2011, 13:50
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Done. Cheers for the heads up. DOJP…
22 Jun 2011, 21:00
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Good suggestions, gwern. John C Wright and James Stoddard have also been suggested - and now Tim Powers comes to mind as well. DOJP…
20 Jun 2011, 18:03
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haha! yep, I like it. But the lyrics are atrocious: http://www.reverbnation.comww.reverbnation.com/artist/song_details/8440373 oh well. cheers for sharing. -DOJP…
13 Jun 2011, 22:55
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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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Sharing this for the fun of it: there's an image drawn from and a direct quote from Wolfe's short story 'The Detective of Dreams' in the opening lines of a new song from one of my…
23 May 2011, 19:02
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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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Any philosophy of religion or theology students out there? Is Silk arguing something of a 'freewill' theodicy here that still trades on a strong view of divine sovereignty? http:…
12 Apr 2011, 23:39
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I wrote some thoughts on this novella (from *The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories*) on my Gene Wolfe blog here: http://silkandhornheresy.blogspot.com/201…
20 Mar 2011, 00:03
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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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On a wholly different note, have you all read the latest Silk for Calde blog post on Wolfe? A really well reasoned article on this issue of misogyny in Wolfe: http://silk4calde.b…
08 Mar 2011, 22:39
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Oh man, good fun. You guys gotta see this... http://sf-fantasy.suvudu.com/2011/03/cage-match-2011-john-carter-of-mars-versus-severian.html DOJP…
08 Mar 2011, 22:33
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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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Don't know if folks have seen this review from Feb 24th, but it seems good and balanced to me and is followed by some interesting discussion in the comments. http://www.avclub.com…
05 Mar 2011, 00:33
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Hi folks, here's the latest entry on my Gene Wolfe blog: http://silkandhornheresy.blogspot.com/2011/02/houses-of-prostitution-in-fiction-of.html Thanks for reading and commenting…
20 Feb 2011, 21:08
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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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