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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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Hi all, I just joined this list and I'm reading through it kind of like Horn's narration in Book of the Short Sun - I'm alternatingly/simultaneously back in the 90s reading the fir…
16 Sep 2010, 19:29
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