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Marc Aramini: This seems amazingly like Wolfe channelling J.G. Ballard, an author with whom on the surface he has rather little in common. Or is it just me? E.g. see Zachary Ken…
02 May 2012, 13:41
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I think the idea of a voluntary sacrifice of some kind has all the right qualities to be "the secret". But the details seem elusive - especially as wielding the secret is suppose…
29 Aug 2000, 16:08
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As has been noted before, "Silk's body" may be ambiguous. It seems very likely to me that the "special embryo" from which Silk was grown was one of many clones(*). Maybe Horn has …
07 Apr 2000, 09:50
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Have the foreshadowing phrases in the last few pages of Exodus been discussed? During my (perhaps sketchy) flit through the archives I couldn't find anywhere they had, so, in no pa…
31 Mar 2000, 12:16
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a) I agree with several posters that the "you are what you eat" theory is by far the most morally/philosophically interesting candidate for the inhumi secret, and also the most con…
20 Jan 2000, 12:39
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Indeed. At the end of Exodus, Horn describes the inhumi as being "no more intelligent than dogs". As one of them posed successfully as a senior clergyman on the Whorl for around 30…
12 Apr 1999, 10:27
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[wise words about the Beatles deleted :-] One of the most stimulating and insightful paragraphs I have ever read on the 'net in more years than I care to recall. I would quibble …
19 Feb 1999, 17:33
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I too found it very hard going indeed. It seemed to me like a writing exercise which had gotten out of hand to the tune of 500 pages or so (it seemed that long, anyway). Somewhere …
23 Sep 1998, 10:06
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From: Jim Jordan <jbjordan at gnt.net <mailto:jbjordan at gnt.net> > [even more off topic, but briefly] I sometimes think that Michael Moorcock's "The War Hound and The World's Pain" is…
08 Sep 1998, 10:25
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(apologies for the length of this - I'm rarely able to post here) Recent discussions have raised this fascinating subject (Free Will in BOtNS), which has always intrigued me. T…
29 Jan 1998, 18:33
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One thing I, as an atheist, like about Wolfe is that he leaves room for interpretation. To me, Crane's explanation of Silk's encounters with the Outsider are plausible. Just as t…
10 Sep 1997, 09:19
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Says Horn, of course. Who, I would submit, is a particularly unreliable witness in this case. All kinds of complicated sexual jealousy might be likely to spring up between a horny …
13 Jun 1997, 09:21
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Mantis, I think they're very interesting, and thanks for posting them. Not that this will prevent me from arguing, just a little :-). True. I guess I had assumed the exultants to…
22 Apr 1997, 14:18
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Someone (apologies - I forget who) mentioned on the Whorl list that there was evidence that Typhon was of extraterrestrial origin and probably brought the exultants with him. I fai…
21 Apr 1997, 12:03
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Mantis, (apologies it this arrives twice, the first attempt seems to have bounced) I didn't make the "zany" theory clear enough. The idea is that after being "cast out" of Mainfra…
21 Apr 1997, 11:58
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While we were waiting for Exodus to be published, one of my colleagues suggested an idea about the identity of the Outsider which is very different from the "conventional" one mo…
14 Apr 1997, 09:14
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