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Probably: He had like 220 published short stories, so 'vast majority' is probably wrong there, but I don't recall 16 published novels, and then there's all the poetry and miscella…
16 Apr 2012, 14:27
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The info on his estate was also interesting, as frustratingly oblique as he is. I hadn't known about the extended family (which is weird, why didn't it go to one specific relative)…
16 Apr 2012, 02:34
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http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=18066 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Secret_Crocodiles_and_Strange_Doings__or_Sometimes I hadn't read about his alc…
16 Apr 2012, 01:33
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What 'may' happen is irrelevant; what matters is what does happen, since you are criticizing status quos. As has been pointed out many times because it's apparently so counterintu…
12 Apr 2012, 00:52
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I don't think 'prime' has anything to do with it. This is just ordinary mind-killing politics. Since people are intent on defending Wolfe, let me give a liberal example where one c…
10 Apr 2012, 03:37
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It's a right-wing concept in the same way as writing a story in which the literal Antichrist takes over the UN and uses it to prosecute his Satanic designs is right-wing. Which is …
10 Apr 2012, 00:43
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http://agrumer.livejournal.com/491118.html Not that _Home Fires_ is the first time the currency right-wing stuff shows up; I recall pointing it out elsewhere. Wonder if _Home Fire…
09 Apr 2012, 23:26
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And John C. Wright, whom we have seen discussing Wolfe before, has picked it up and excerpted it: http://www.scifiwright.com/2012/03/nor-the-summers-as-golden-by-gene-wolfe/…
23 Mar 2012, 18:38
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2012/3/22 Ant?nio Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com>: Always an interesting statistical topic: http://andrewgelman.com/2007/03/bayesian_sortin/…
22 Mar 2012, 17:10
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I've put up the whole thing at http://www.gwern.net/docs/2007-wolfe…
02 Mar 2012, 01:10
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http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2012/02/08/do-newspapers-think-we-cant-see-whos-missing http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/feb/08/lars-iyer-top-10-literary-frenemi…
13 Feb 2012, 23:04
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http://www.locusmag.com/Monitor/2012/01/print-and-online-periodicals-third-week-january/ "The Bulletin of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America...Issue 196, Vol. 46 N…
23 Jan 2012, 22:51
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A much more interesting description: http://www.shewrites.com/profiles/blogs/honoring-gene-wolfe Also http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/01/12/qa-with-the-founder-of-%E2%80%98the…
16 Jan 2012, 23:58
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http://www.sfsite.com/news/2012/01/07/gene-wolfe-honored/ Tickets: https://genewolfesanfilippo.eventbrite.com/?ref=ebtn (A dinner & performance ticket will run you $150+, it seems…
09 Jan 2012, 22:55
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Frank Herbert comes to mind besides Wolfe.…
20 Dec 2011, 20:02
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Impressive work. I haven't read Sidon, but I re-read the others recently, and this seems like it might be right.…
17 Dec 2011, 02:45
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- http://elflands2ndcousin.com/2011/11/29/earningmaintaining-a-readers-trust-starting-a-story-with-cultural-touchstones-narrative-voice-and-precision-part-1-of-3/ - http://elflands…
12 Dec 2011, 23:59
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Another Wright/Wolfe piece: http://www.scifiwright.com/2011/11/underrating-gene-wolfe/…
28 Nov 2011, 23:44
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Interesting. I've thought much the same thing about 5HOC. I'm not sure _Home Fires_ is special in this respect here; I've noted in the past that that theme is overt or covert in ma…
23 Nov 2011, 16:16
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http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/Entry/wolfe_gene Reads like a pretty good entry, although given recent threads, I can see many interpretive claims list regulars will reject. Conclu…
08 Nov 2011, 21:59
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1. _New Sun_ review: http://www.reddit.com/r/scifi/comments/lon34/gene_wolfes_shadow_of_the_torturer_book_one_of/ 2. _The Sorcerer's House_ review: http://elaguiladorada7.blogspot.…
01 Nov 2011, 01:02
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It has been a while, but wasn't there just one sequence of numbers which made up a Seal of Pas? If the sequence doesn't change, then none of those 3 suggestions would work (serial …
28 Oct 2011, 16:06
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_Endangered Species_'s first story, 'A Cabin on the Coast'.…
25 Oct 2011, 14:18
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20 Oct 2011, 01:31
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It has certainly come up many times on this list, mostly in _An Evil Guest_ context IIRC: https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=%22Circus%20of%20Dr%2E%20Lao%22%20site%3Aurth%2Enet …
14 Oct 2011, 17:03
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Destroyed by the floods brought by the New Sun, I always figured.…
22 Sep 2011, 21:13
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http://antsofgodarequeerfish.blogspot.com/2011/06/first-ever-book-of-essays-on-lafferty.html : M> Then the main body of the chapter will look at how Lafferty's fiction evinces his…
20 Jun 2011, 16:02
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Not quite. He said they were 'my equivalents of the Turk' to the 'stagnant political entity' of the Commonwealth. That is, Byzantium:Turks :: Commonwealth:Ascians. This is *not* th…
27 May 2011, 00:39
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It occurred to me that the sundials probably date back to Urth's interstellar empire if not earlier. Maybe they tell times on different *worlds*.…
12 May 2011, 16:30
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Just in time for Gene's birthday celebrations: http://foreverness.createforumhosting.com/what-to-do-about-gene-wolfe-t337.html…
10 May 2011, 03:30
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Actually, I've been reading the 1897 serialized novel, _Edison's Conquest of Mars_ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison%27s_Conquest_of_Mars on Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenber…
01 May 2011, 20:20
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It's funny you bring up that particular LeGuin story - I once wrote a sort of reply to it: http://www.gwern.net/fiction/The%20Ones%20Who%20Walk%20Towards%20Acre (Well, it's funny …
30 Apr 2011, 21:35
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It's been quoted at least once before: http://www.urth.net/whorl/archives/v0012/0558.shtml It's a great quip and sums up a lot of people's impression of _The Dispossessed_ (at lea…
30 Apr 2011, 19:30
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http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/spring-books-short-reviews/Content?oid=3640854 ...Completely mismatched romantic partners are another common element in Wolfe's novels, and wh…
26 Apr 2011, 00:25
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http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2011/03/gene-wolfe-engineering-the-future/ Spoilers?…
22 Mar 2011, 02:15
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15 Mar 2011, 15:31
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A curious update: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=R._A._Lafferty&curidH245&diffA8162212&oldidA8161910 Different address than the ad, and note that none of my links menti…
10 Mar 2011, 19:54
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Yeah, that is very high an asking fee for novels that never sold very much. ($70k invested over the remaining ~70 years of the Lafferty copyrights is *a lot* of money; I can't see …
07 Mar 2011, 21:48
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Linked in http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2011/03/sf-tidbits-for-3311/ An ad (http://locusmag.com/2011/Ads/digitallafferty.jpg) for the Lafferty copyrights (http://www.sfsite.com…
07 Mar 2011, 16:27
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http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2011/02/now-we-are-ten.html Other links: - quasi interview/review of _Home Fires_: http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/books/3707714-421/not-so-di…
16 Feb 2011, 23:13
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http://littleredreviewer.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/gene-wolfes-home-fires-rules-just-dont-apply-here/…
08 Feb 2011, 01:10
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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/jan/30/nasty-place-good-people/…
31 Jan 2011, 23:19
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Severian's phrase doesn't include the key idea - the endlessness of writings. (Or at least, in a rather indirect way, with 'unslakeable'.) I would look instead to Ecclesiastes. It…
31 Jan 2011, 20:30
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I think this is the third time this interview has been posted.…
19 Jan 2011, 23:02
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http://www.valleyadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=13011 Also worth noting: - http://silk4calde.blogspot.com/2011/01/influence-of-g-k-chestertons-writings.html - http://mervih.wordpre…
18 Jan 2011, 01:25
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I don't really have a point to this; I simply like the quote and think it germane: --Bosola, in response to Ferdinand. Act 4, Sc. 2; _The Tragedy of the Dutchesse of Malfy_*, John…
21 Dec 2010, 23:39
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I see it as a problem due to interpretation being a very large problem which is also very loosely specified. When someone proposes a new Grand Unified Theory of the Long Sun or New…
21 Dec 2010, 01:57
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Where is the Pie Club described as baking 'chess pie'? 'chess' is used exactly once in the story, and nothing to do with pies ("the chess and debating society types").…
09 Dec 2010, 22:28
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This is a very good exposition of the missed-chances theory (http://www.gwern.net/Suzanne%20Delage.html#missed-chances) which I should probably steal, since it's better than my, Tu…
09 Dec 2010, 04:01
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I recently gave it another polish and put it on my website: http://www.gwern.net/Suzanne%20Delage.html Hopefully this form is much more readable. I don't think I missed any major …
08 Dec 2010, 04:25
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