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There's no information on this book on the Liverpool University Press site, nor on amazon.co.uk . Fernando ============================================================= Fernando …
25 Apr 2005, 14:45
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That was how I read it too. It seemed to me that in some sense Hanga was the island. And I at least considered the possibility that the island was what he was seeing from the plane…
12 May 2003, 17:23
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I've been following this discussion with some interest, because I do like many of Wolfe's short stories. They are a very diverse bunch of stories, of course, with the novellas at o…
19 Apr 2003, 18:24
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Well, I thought I'd report a little bit about the book seminar I'm running. In the first session, we discussed "The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories", "Alien Stones", and "…
03 Mar 2003, 13:40
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I've gotten myself into doing a short "book seminar" on "The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories" at my college. It's six one-hour sessions, and students get…
11 Feb 2003, 13:29
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I must say I had the same reaction as Mantis, that the narrator was female. Perhaps this is why the castaway would tend to open up to the narrator while resisting his official debr…
07 Feb 2003, 18:32
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Hmmm... a "capon" is a castrated male chicken, from a Latin root that means "to cut", I think. So "badly cut"? Fernando…
21 Jan 2003, 04:06
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Hi, folks. You should note that Klez will fake the "from" line in the email it sends, so that the apparent sender is not always the real sender. Merry Christmas to all! Fernando…
25 Dec 2002, 03:05
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I'm 100% sure that the common name is a coincidence. Not only is the derivation of inhumo/inhuma/inhumi pretty clearly from in+human, but also the Brazilian bird is i-nhu-ma, with …
26 Jul 2002, 23:22
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**** On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 12:09:49 -0400, you said: Alex> It's "You Can't Go Back" in _Iron Tears_. One of Lafferty's better Alex> stories, which is saying a lot. While the inten…
17 Jun 2002, 16:43
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I just re-read Wolfe's "Has Anybody Seen Junie Moon", in the Moon Shots anthology edited by Peter Crowther. The story is a homage to R. A. Lafferty, and it refers to a Lafferty st…
14 Jun 2002, 02:17
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David DiGiacomo said: Hmm, I don't quite feel that way. I agree, pretty much, about Castleview. My problem with the Soldier series is just that it's unfinished. The books so far s…
03 Apr 2002, 19:25
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**** On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 11:12:30 -0800, Michael Andre-Driussi <mantis at siriusfiction.com> said: mantis> I turn to the Children's Literature experts we have around here (I mantis> …
25 Mar 2002, 22:12
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There are several bibliographies online at the LOCUS site. They have one for pre-1984 material, one for 1984-98, and then bibliographies for 1999, 2000, and 2001. Putting them toge…
21 Mar 2002, 19:50
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**** On Sat, 21 Apr 2001 00:56:49 -0500, "Robert Borski" <rborski at charter.net> said: RB> Also: isn't the ring Oreb brings back a different ring? And as far as RB> this being the i…
21 Apr 2001, 09:16
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**** On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 10:21:04 -0800, "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <ddanehy at siebel.com> said: Dan'l> That's you, me, and Alex ... is anyone else on this list explicitly Dan'l> Christia…
26 Feb 2001, 18:00
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**** On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 10:21:04 -0800, "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <ddanehy at siebel.com> said: Dan'l> That's you, me, and Alex ... is anyone else on this list explicitly Dan'l> Christia…
26 Feb 2001, 18:00
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I'm not really happy with any of the explanations so far as to why Seawrack (and Nettle!) decide to return to the Whorl with Silk/Horn. At one point in the book, "Horn" says that h…
23 Feb 2001, 17:43
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About the secret of the inhumi: can we trust the text here? Since Silk/Horn is writing a "public" document, might he have put down a bowdlerized version of the secret so as to make…
14 Feb 2001, 11:06
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One thing that these quotes suggest is that (at the beginning, at least) there is more enmity on Horn's part than on Sinew's. Horn depicts himself as a father who just won't give h…
02 Sep 2000, 09:42
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Nah... Even Clute hedges his bets, by saying maybe he's an inhumu (spells it wrong, as "inhuma"... or does he mean that?), maybe he's an aquastor, maybe something else. My main rea…
16 Aug 2000, 11:00
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**** On Tue, 8 Aug 2000 10:06:21 -0700, mantis said: mantis> My sense of it is that Silk committed suicide (with knife) by mantis> himself next to Hyacinth in her coffin. That's …
08 Aug 2000, 13:20
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As I mentioned in another email, I've just reread OBW, which was quite rewarding. Some things I still don't understand... 1) What happened in the pit? It seems likely that Horn di…
08 Aug 2000, 13:18
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**** On Tue, 8 Aug 2000 17:29:09 +0100, "Ian Smith" <iancsmith at 4unet.co.uk> said: Ian> would be that bloke from 'the book of Silk'. Yup, I'm proposing that Ian> both Horn AND Sil…
08 Aug 2000, 13:03
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**** On Fri, 4 Aug 2000 13:08:01 -0500, "Robert Borski" <rborski at charter.net> said: Robert> Scylla III, I'm proposing, is Scylla II made flesh again--that is Robert> to say, recar…
07 Aug 2000, 13:19
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**** On Sun, 23 Jul 2000 23:19:09 -0700, Adam Stephanides <adamsteph at earthlink.net> said: Adam> I realized it was a technicality when I wrote it. But by your Adam> reasoning, no …
24 Jul 2000, 09:19
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**** On Sun, 23 Jul 2000 22:59:24 -0400, William Ansley <wansley at warwick.net> said: WA> Now all the units of measure used by Horn are based on the lengths of WA> parts of the body…
24 Jul 2000, 09:07
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**** On Sun, 23 Jul 2000 14:55:35 -0700, Adam Stephanides <adamsteph at earthlink.net> said: Adam> But, IIRC, at the start of OBW Horn is looking for Silk by Adam> circulating Silk's…
23 Jul 2000, 15:28
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23 Jul 2000, 12:22
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My reaction to "Pajarocu" is that it sounded a lot like words from indigenous tribes from the Amazon. To be specific, it brought to mind "pirarucu", a large fish which is one of th…
11 Oct 1999, 20:20
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OK, here's my question for Gene: In Horn's "Defence", he writes: "Fewer than I have expected have found fault with Silk's assertion that [Mint] took her warlike character from the…
15 May 1997, 18:11
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**** On Fri, 4 Apr 97 00:08:00 GMT, Mantis said: M> What strikes me about this offhand passage is first, and rather M> superficially, that this is a clear link to Biblical text o…
04 Apr 1997, 08:09
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I first found out about Wolfe from Algis Budrys' review of *The Claw of the Conciliator*. It was such a rave, that I decided I had to find those books and read them. But since I wa…
15 Feb 1997, 09:18
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Mantis said... OK, I'll bite: who is it?…
11 Feb 1997, 07:25
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**** On Sat, 25 Jan 1997 10:42:09 -0600, Jim Jordan <jbjordan at gnt.net> said: Jim> I don't think so. The question has been raised whether Severian is Jim> a trustworthy narrator. …
25 Jan 1997, 12:08
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**** On Thu, 23 Jan 97 17:05:52 -0500, David_Lebling at avid.com said: DL> I'm puzzled over the appearance of Patera Pike's "ghost" in _Lake_. DL> Did Silk see an inhumu (probably Q…
25 Jan 1997, 09:38
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**** On Tue, 21 Jan 1997 15:17:47 -0700 (MST), douge at nti.com (Doug Eigsti) said: Doug> I like your diagram it does seem to allow for the void-cross, and Doug> it is a nice plus-s…
21 Jan 1997, 17:58
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**** On Mon, 20 Jan 1997 20:07:21 -0500, James Stewart <james.stewart at worldnet.att.net> said: James> All of this talk of Exodus now is making me desperate to read it, James> but b…
20 Jan 1997, 21:35
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Hello, all. I just had a fun time reading the list archives. Lots of interesting things there! Some comments: 1) Quetzal - He seems less ambiguous to me than to most of the peo…
20 Jan 1997, 10:20
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