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http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/11/book-review-gene-wolfe-the-land-across " Gene Wolfe’s The Land Across is Lonely Planet Meets the Necronomicon", Moridcai Knode Oh man, how did I m…
18 Nov 2013, 16:27
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Short story-by-story review of _Shadows of the New Sun: http://www.denofgeek.us/dvd-bluray/gene-wolfe/216306/shadows-of-the-new-sun-book-review Photo of old _New Sun_ book cover: …
28 Oct 2013, 15:36
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Curious. Comes off as a mish-mash of a Cold war anti-Communist potboiler and the Dracula myth (Transylvania, national paranoid fear of 'the Turks') with some jarring contemporary f…
22 Oct 2013, 14:34
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I've heard a great deal about ICO, and own _Shadow of the Colossus_. They're famous as the standard examples now for 'games as literature', because of how they have a theme or mess…
23 Sep 2013, 16:17
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http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/08/book-review-shadows-of-the-new-sun-gene-wolfe "Apollo in the Labyrinth: _Shadows of the New Sun_"…
23 Sep 2013, 14:59
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http://silk4calde.blogspot.com/2013/09/gene-wolfe-holdings-at-merril-collection.html You will have to visit the post to see all the photographs.…
09 Sep 2013, 15:42
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"http://www.rantingdragon.com/gfn-the-shadow-of-the-torturer/ "Great Fantasy Novel Nomination: The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe", by Paul Weimer…
19 Aug 2013, 16:11
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http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2013/08/book-review-shadows-of-the-new-sun-stories-in-honor-of-gene-wolfe-edited-by-bill-fawcett-and-j-e-mooney/ "BOOK REVIEW: Shadows of the New S…
12 Aug 2013, 15:05
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Yes, there's one apparently largely finished and soon to come out; google 'The Land Across' for previous links and news articles.…
05 Aug 2013, 18:04
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I think the post is pretty clear that that is not what was going on there; the studio simply wanted to guarantee that a competing film couldn't be made. It's a good thing - Laffert…
14 Jul 2013, 19:33
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http://ralafferty.tumblr.com/post/55382042501/49-the-six-fingers-of-time…
14 Jul 2013, 03:47
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http://dangerousdansbookblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/in-shadow-of-gene-wolfe.html _Shadows of the New Sun: Stories in Honor of Gene Wolfe_, by Bill Fawcett; 'My rating: 3 of 5 stars' …
10 Jul 2013, 15:09
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Well, I wouldn't swear to it - I am hearing impaired and so I'm not *sure* that's what he said, but it certainly sounded like it. Feel free to listen to that section, it's not long…
26 Jun 2013, 17:24
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http://www.tommerritt.com/2013/06/25/sl-podcast-134-interview-with-gene-wolfe/ "S&L Podcast ? #134 — Interview with Gene Wolfe"; from the Nebula Awards http://www.podtrac.com/pts/…
26 Jun 2013, 16:11
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https://opengeography.wordpress.com/2013/06/17/gene-wolfes-recursion/ "Gene Wolfe’s recursive opening paragraph [thought experiment]" Possibly also of interest: the podcast http:/…
19 Jun 2013, 15:13
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'A 1982 Video Interview with Isaac Asimov, Harlan Ellison and Gene Wolfe Wherein They Discuss the Label ?Science Fiction?' http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2013/06/a-1982-video-int…
05 Jun 2013, 17:13
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http://www.sfinsf.org/?p=1892 "Bonus Reading: Gene Wolfe & Connie Willis" May 16th (in 2 days):…
15 May 2013, 01:28
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How sure are we that Obama was born on Urth? Where is his birth certificate proving he was native-born in Ascia as required by the Constitution? Perhaps he's really from the Common…
30 Apr 2013, 16:46
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It's surprisingly rare: http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=autarch&year_start00&year_end 00&corpus&smoothing=3&sharehttp://i.imgur.com/tvf6jCT.png A direct Google Book…
18 Apr 2013, 16:02
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Sequelae: - Photo of Wolfe: https://secure.flickr.com/photos/oldonliner/8625154326/ - 2:03 video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_ppTMudsp0…
17 Apr 2013, 02:02
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I've never heard this claim before, and it sounds pretty interesting. Is there anything I can read on this topic?…
10 Apr 2013, 16:51
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But it can work. There are commensal worms, and mutualistic worms. They may not be as famous as the partnership between nitrogen-fixing bacteria and plant roots, but they exist. We…
10 Apr 2013, 16:06
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It sounds much more like a maggot or worm origin to me.…
10 Apr 2013, 14:22
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Low prices could be due either to oversupply *or* lack of demand. I do not recall anything in 5HOC indicating that people are procreating so much that they cannot afford their chil…
03 Apr 2013, 22:39
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http://www.niutoday.info/2013/03/22/renowned-science-fiction-author-gene-wolfe-coming-to-campus-april-3-for-talk-book-signing/ A good opportunity anyone in Chicago or Illinois.…
27 Mar 2013, 01:41
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http://www.scifiwright.com/2013/03/the-secrets-of-the-sorcerers-house-by-gene-wolfe/ "The secrets of THE SORCERER’S HOUSE by Gene Wolfe" That seems like a good point. Did anyone p…
12 Mar 2013, 23:59
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Synopsis: I'm not sure why, but for some reason I thought that _The Land Across_ was going to involve time travel or dinosaurs!…
10 Mar 2013, 03:33
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http://bookstove.com/science-fiction/book-review-gene-wolfe-the-claw-of-the-conciliator/ Nah, I'm kidding, it's a real review: Also, http://buenogato.wordpress.com/2012/12/30/the…
09 Jan 2013, 00:40
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A biography is hard work: who will fund the years of work for a really good one? How would one convince Wolfe to cooperate and that one isn't a flake? Anyone who needs some emails…
17 Dec 2012, 17:02
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JJ: So Lewis and Chesterton would have been among the formative influences in your paradigm. GW: Oh yes, very definitely. JJ: Could you name others, within the area of t…
17 Dec 2012, 16:52
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That's charitable, yes. If we go by Thalassocrat's timeline, he claimed IIRC, that Chris was born in 2007? If he really was, then the monorails are not very strong evidence of bei…
27 Nov 2012, 19:13
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Finally got around to reading it. Quick read, reasonably entertaining. Sadly, I find myself even less interested than _The Sorcerer's House_ in figuring out the secret - but I am m…
25 Nov 2012, 06:13
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https://twitter.com/mxpalmieri/status/269198900693434368 By Marco Palmieri https://twitter.com/mxpalmieri (@nailhimself is https://twitter.com/neilhimself or Neil Gaiman, of cour…
21 Nov 2012, 03:17
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A Ferguson update from Google Alerts: http://news.virginia.edu/content/phd-student-one-three-national-book-collecting-contest-winners…
22 Oct 2012, 02:20
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Also of interest: http://litreactor.com/columns/primer-gene-wolfe-the-subtle-master…
10 Oct 2012, 19:16
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http://www.logicalatomist.com/blog/2012/10/soldier-of-sidon-by-gene-wolfe.html…
10 Oct 2012, 00:13
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http://shelflove.wordpress.com/2012/09/18/the-best-of-gene-wolfe-review/ http://speculiction.blogspot.com/2012/09/review-of-wizard-knight-by-gene-wolfe.html…
18 Sep 2012, 22:14
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http://stephenormsby.wordpress.com/2012/08/29/wednesday-wordsmith-author-interview-gene-wolfe/ "Wednesday Wordsmith Author Interview — Gene Wolfe", 29 August 2012; the interview bu…
04 Sep 2012, 22:42
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I think it's much more likely this was just an early clone experiment, abandoned due to poor impulse control & self-discipline.…
27 Aug 2012, 20:37
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http://forum.tor.com/threads/1107-Gene-Wolfe-s-quot-The-Land-Across-quot…
21 Aug 2012, 22:27
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http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/slingshot_ending Looking, I see only 2 brief mentions on Urth.net: http://www.urth.net/whorl/archives/v0012/0569.shtml and http://lists.urth.n…
20 Aug 2012, 18:43
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I read this long ago, but nuclear fallout never occurred to me. It doesn't fit in a story about ecology & money, a sudden nuclear war wouldn't be a persistent hazard over the entir…
02 Aug 2012, 22:04
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I sincerely hope the Founding Fathers would not have endorsed those predictions when they were made; I had more respect for them. (On the other hand, the colonists *were* conspirac…
01 Aug 2012, 20:52
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I have a long-standing interest in predictions and what they reveal, which would alone would justify my interest, but besides that... I care because I wish one of my favorite auth…
28 Jul 2012, 14:18
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Today on Hacker News I saw a link to http://www.writersofthefuture.com/time-capsule-predictions "1987 Time Capsule Predictions" for 2012 (25 years in the future; HN discussion: htt…
27 Jul 2012, 16:28
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'Mini-Review of Gene Wolfe's "Fifth Head"' http://open.salon.com/blog/patrick__mcevoy-halston/2012/06/15/mini-review_of_gene_wolfes_fifth_head : 'Kim Stanley Robinson Sees Humans …
18 Jun 2012, 23:34
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Perfectly possible: one of Lafferty's semi-historical novels was about some noble Indians in the early Western period, _Okla Hannali_. And there's some fairly overt commentary in t…
07 Jun 2012, 00:51
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The timing and subject matter remind me of one of R.A. Lafferty's more famous short stories, "Narrow Valley".…
07 Jun 2012, 00:05
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The book *is* dedicated effusively to Gaiman by Wolfe; it's not unreasonable to think that Wolfe targeted it at Gaiman or simply gave Gaiman some hints or something. I took a quic…
04 May 2012, 15:32
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Hm, we didn't think it was very deep - Bax was indeed the evil twin who by the end murders his brother and usurps his wife and possessions, just like Emlyn was the evil twin and Ie…
03 May 2012, 20:44
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