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https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/bdhx61/rip_gene_wolfe_19312019/ekymzc4/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25652868…
18 Jan 2021, 17:21
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"The Wolfe & Gaiman Show": Gene Wolfe/Neil Gaiman interview (September 2002, _Locus Mag_ #500): - https://www.gwern.net/docs/fiction/2002-wolfe-locusinterview.pdf / https://mega.n…
04 Apr 2019, 19:40
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Wolfe has so many obscure allusions, that such a specific set of claims about urban life has always made me wonder if "Talarican" was an allusion or transformation of some actual u…
16 Jan 2019, 02:33
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An undergrad (mellonbread on Reddit) back in 2015 wrote a RPG campaign sourcebook letting one set adventures inside Nessus: https://www.gwern.net/docs/fiction/anonymous-nessusdnd.p…
15 Jan 2019, 22:18
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A 2002 interview with Gene Wolfe on Neil Gaiman, at the 28th World Fantasy Convention in Minneapolis, by Joseph McCabe [from pg274-281 of _Hanging Out With The Dream King: Conversa…
06 Jul 2018, 18:03
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How fun. Not that you need the suggestion, but one of my favorite books is all about this theme of warfare and competitive pressures of various kinds pushing (and corrupting) scie…
16 Nov 2017, 16:22
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This has been suggested before, but I don't think anyone has offered a good answer to: why should Chris or Chris's son becoming Blackbeard be the esoteric meaning of _Pirate Freedo…
29 Apr 2015, 15:33
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I saw this anti-Puppy argument previously brought up in, I think, a New Republic blog; they added on as another example R.A. Lafferty. It doesn't work because of the timing: the po…
28 Apr 2015, 16:31
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"Sci-Fi’s Difficult Genius", Peter Bebergal http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/sci-fis-difficult-genius…
24 Apr 2015, 15:34
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http://crookedtimber.org/2014/11/06/philosopher-dreams-of-saving-electric-cats/#comment-581712…
07 Nov 2014, 23:48
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An interesting bit about the politics of _The Land Across_:…
02 Oct 2014, 19:20
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You may recall an interview with the late SF author & Urth.net poster Jay Lake (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Lake) which came up recently (http://lists.urth.net/pipermail/urth…
22 Sep 2014, 17:18
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Thoughts on this classification? Going through them: 1. new gods: no, Forlesen is powerless and the universe is old 2. praisers: no 3. soldiers: no 4. sportsmen in paradise: no 5.…
14 Sep 2014, 19:04
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Exactly. On the other hand, if he has some source of information about the egg, then conditional on his new information each day, he may be able to update his beliefs as he goes al…
07 Sep 2014, 14:16
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Hard to say. It could be a reflection of her age and old-person smell: sandalwood is an old perfume and scented smoke source, but it also has some medicinal uses including as a fum…
27 Aug 2014, 15:22
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That's an out-of-universe reason for the setting yes, but look carefully at Odilo's introduction: he tells us it's Halloween and he's heard silly false stories: But even though th…
26 Aug 2014, 19:46
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Inire is an ambiguous character all along; remember he is not human, and is partially responsible for the destruction of Urth and murdering millions/billions of people for the sake…
26 Aug 2014, 19:40
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I found the thing 'not unlike a doll' to be quite mysterious when I first read it. I thought that it might be the returned form of the cat, but since it was buried with Sancha and…
26 Aug 2014, 18:59
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- http://antsofgodarequeerfish.blogspot.com/2014/08/lafferty-news-thats-right-news.html - http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/aug/13/ra-lafferty-secret-sci-fi-genius-po…
18 Aug 2014, 01:39
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http://silk4calde.blogspot.com/2014/08/upcoming-paper-gene-wolfes-seven.html…
14 Aug 2014, 01:40
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Dicken doesn't seem to come up much. In the one hit in the copies I have: Herbert came up in the same session though: Might be more hits on Urth.net but you'll have to struggle t…
07 Aug 2014, 15:47
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Tarnung is likely a Ring reference to the Tarnhelm, which grants invisibility. Given that the other magic item is a maser which creates waves of coherent straight radiation, the Ta…
07 Aug 2014, 00:03
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http://www.locusmag.com/News/2014/07/lawrence-santoro-1942-2014/ The TR interview with Wolfe seems to be pretty popular.…
04 Aug 2014, 16:17
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It's hard not to read _Island of Dr Moreau_ as a twisted Garden of Eden scenario: a tropical paradise isolated from the rest of the world, overseen by a benevolent creator, who rai…
28 Jul 2014, 15:30
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- long TR interview already excerpted in separate thread: http://lists.urth.net/pipermail/urth-urth.net/2014-July/054936.html - http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/headline/2014…
28 Jul 2014, 15:24
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TR has published a lengthy interview with Gene Wolfe. It asks plenty of standard questions, but also some interesting ones about some of the short stories which have come up recent…
28 Jul 2014, 01:56
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I don't recognize any actual argument in your email. All I see is venting about how 'offended' you are. So what. Why is it off-limits to discuss Wolfe's impending death? That is o…
14 Jul 2014, 15:17
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By the way, I know how easy it is to let time slip by and never get around to doing something you always intended to do but never quite got around to. If you want to write fanmail,…
13 Jul 2014, 18:50
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- Via http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jenniferfitz/2014/06/should-you-be-writing-right-now-and-what-about-the-kids-and-what-about-a-conference-this-summer/ , http://www.christiannewsw…
30 Jun 2014, 16:47
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Doesn't that same objection of the logical indeterminacy of language, pace Wittgenstein & Quine, also apply to natural language?…
21 Jun 2014, 14:37
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http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/06/star-trek-tng-and-the-limits-of-language-shaka-when-the-walls-fell/372107/"Shaka, When the Walls Fell: In one fascinating …
20 Jun 2014, 21:12
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http://subterraneanpress.com/store/product_detail/urth_of_the_new_sun_preorder…
09 Jun 2014, 15:37
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An impressive overview as expected, but one point felt under-addressed. Wolfe seems to think that the 'uninvented inventions' are a major theme of the story, but you hardly mentio…
08 Jun 2014, 21:50
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- on orc/wargs: http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Letter_to_Gene_Wolfe - short TSH review: http://bookishlywitty.blogspot.com/2014/05/from-tbr-shelf-sorcerers-house-by-gene.html - obi…
02 Jun 2014, 16:54
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And another post on Crooked Timber: http://crookedtimber.org/2014/05/07/gene-wolfe-is-82/…
07 May 2014, 20:14
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http://citypaper.com/arts/stage/stage-review-em-chronotony-em-1.1677152 "Stage Review: 'Chronotony'; Connor Kizer’s play imagines all time as a single moment"…
05 May 2014, 16:57
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I've noticed over the past few weeks that Urth.net emails from Yahoo.com users (such as Marc Aramini) seem to be regularly dropping into my spam folder despite me always marking th…
28 Apr 2014, 17:22
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- Wolfe-related books: http://www.seattlepi.com/lifestyle/blogcritics/article/Book-Review-Nebula-Awards-Showcase-2014-5402795.php "Book Review: _Nebula Awards Showcase 2014_, Edite…
21 Apr 2014, 17:18
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- https://twitter.com/jason_pontin/status/455716343997018112 @jason_pontin 10:36 AM 14 Apr 2014 : - http://pretentiouslatintitle.wordpress.com/2014/04/08/day-7-g-is-for-gene-wolfe…
14 Apr 2014, 17:36
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/books/ct-prj-0216-science-fiction-roundup-20140214,0,2803037.story Gary K Wolfe:…
17 Feb 2014, 16:45
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http://opengeography.wordpress.com/2014/01/20/gene-wolfe-aphorisms/…
27 Jan 2014, 18:46
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Is the translation good?…
17 Jan 2014, 23:03
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http://ultan.org.uk/shadows-of-the-new-sun-an-interview-with-judi-rohrig/…
02 Jan 2014, 16:21
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http://io9.com/dont-expect-to-figure-out-gene-wolfes-new-novel-the-f-1484516074 (review) http://www.bendbulletin.com/home/1591917-151/the-strange-lands-of-sci-fi-master-gene-wolfe…
29 Dec 2013, 16:48
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Yes. Grepping my 5 ebooks of _New Sun_, there are the following hits: There was a sudden intensity in his quavering voice. "Severian, the king was elected at the Marchfield. …
18 Dec 2013, 16:20
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So to put this in further context: Now, when I hear 'soothsayers' in close proximity to 'one suit', my instant expectation is that we are talking about Tarot and fortunetelling. F…
17 Dec 2013, 00:57
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http://www.suindependent.com/news/id_5145/The-Independent-Book-Reviews.html "The Independent Book Reviews, Holiday books reviewed" http://fantasyhotlist.blogspot.com/2013/12/win-c…
16 Dec 2013, 16:30
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David Brin http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2013/12/science-fiction-wonders.html: His link is to http://www.sfsite.com/11b/sn404.htm "A review by Dave Truesdale" (2400 words). I won'…
15 Dec 2013, 18:35
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_The Fall of Rome_ has come up once or twice on the Lafferty forums. It's a pretty odd book. I had the opportunity to read most of it in a library once. IIRC, it was sort of a nonf…
03 Dec 2013, 04:30
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http://www.npr.org/2013/11/27/246154056/a-travel-writer-lost-in-an-undiscovered-country-in-land-across "A Travel Writer, Lost In An Undiscovered Country In 'Land Across'", Alan Che…
02 Dec 2013, 16:32
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