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This is something that Wolfe briefly discussed when answering questions from this list back in 1997: "[...] the inhumi. They are fundamentally from Green, which is where they c…
02 Sep 2000, 08:44
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When first manifesting at the opening of =Nightside=, the Outsider speaks with multiple -- "paired" -- voices. Wolfe may have the Trinity in mind, or two of its components. Dave…
10 Aug 2000, 09:12
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I reviewed it from a Tor proof a couple of months back -- the review is due out in the British SF Association's =Vector= but I'll post it here with lots of (mostly unnecessary, I…
11 Jun 2000, 07:44
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Adam Stephanides <adamsteph at earthlink.net> exfoliated: Inhumations, and the transitive verb "to inhume", are part of the professional jargon of Terry Pratchett's Discworld guild …
13 Apr 2000, 20:42
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Alga bloomed: [quoting me] Right on! What does he know? Besides, in an on-line chat elsewhere, Wolfe also remarked that Quetzal was not the only one of his kind on the Whorl. S…
07 Feb 2000, 10:08
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When members of this very list posed a number of questions to Wolfe back in 1997, Q27 and Wolfe's answer went as follows: Is Pike's ghost really Quetzal? No. Of course it mig…
30 Jan 2000, 20:59
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Josh Levitan wrote ... [snippage] Where does it say that Borges gives enough information? My reading of "The Sect of the Phoenix" (also translated as "The Cult of the Phoenix") …
15 Jan 2000, 14:11
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In-Reply-To: <199910302310.QAA19304 at lists1.best.com> alga propagated: Vladimir Nabokov came close: "My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I…
31 Oct 1999, 08:46
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In-Reply-To: <199910132310.QAA09996 at lists1.best.com> Alastair Reynolds wrote, of Wolfe: This has come up before. An on-line chat session included the following: Q: About how far…
14 Oct 1999, 09:11
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In-Reply-To: <199910090010.RAA25600 at lists1.best.com> Alga wrote -- Like the three gripping segments of a drill chuck, perhaps? Of course our author must have seen a lot of those…
09 Oct 1999, 13:42
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In-Reply-To: <199909151310.GAA13508 at lists1.best.com> [snip PW summary] I have a much longer (but hardly more profound) review of =On Blue's Waters= coming up in =Nova Express= .…
15 Sep 1999, 15:25
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In-Reply-To: <199707130650.XAA15095 at lists1.best.com> Alice Turner: Part of my own tooth-gnashing over this resulted from the fact that the ghost or "ghost" might just still be o…
13 Jul 1997, 15:16
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In-Reply-To: <199707120102.SAA20769 at lists1.best.com> Mantis: many thanks for posting Our Gene's responses. I too was puzzled by various people's past confusion about this one (in…
12 Jul 1997, 10:08
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In-Reply-To: <199707030407.VAA19754 at lists1.best.com> Actually it was Alastair Reynolds who wrote the quoted lines. My own feeling was that it's just a bit of Wolfe playfulness, a…
04 Jul 1997, 11:26
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In-Reply-To: <199707010049.RAA29891 at lists1.best.com> Here's some stuff from Eric Partridge's =A Dictionary of Historical Slang= (abridged 1972), with addenda from =1811 Dictionar…
01 Jul 1997, 12:39
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Author: Gene Wolfe Title: Nightside the Long Sun Publisher: New English Library City: London Date: 1993 Order Info: 0-450-59405-X Pages: 333pp Series: …
30 Mar 1994, 01:18
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