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http://weaponsgradeennui.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/the-knight/ ... ... ... ...…
06 Dec 2010, 23:39
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http://www.blackgate.com/2010/11/23/and-it-goes-on-from-there-an-interview-with-gene-wolfe/ I don't seem to recall any discussion of this before or during the AEG threads. It does…
27 Nov 2010, 02:22
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http://csecooney.livejournal.com/269391.html…
22 Nov 2010, 23:56
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--Brian Chippendale, http://www.comicsbeat.com/2010/10/27/creators-review-corner-brian-chippendale-on-gene-wolfe/…
11 Nov 2010, 00:03
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http://www.bestsf.net/2010/10/08/gene-wolfe-donovan-sent-us-years-best-sf-15/ --Mark Watson…
11 Oct 2010, 23:36
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http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2010/09/big-engrossing-novels-a-list-and-a-quest.html…
27 Sep 2010, 23:51
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I don't remember if our past discussions went into the technical details, but it's pretty unlikely the Whorl got any significant slowdown. Useful link: http://www.projectrho.com/r…
21 Sep 2010, 17:08
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It's that time of the week again! --- "Notes on Gene Wolfe's "Short Sun" novels" http://www.tommoody.us/archives/2010/09/18/notes-on-gene-wolfes-short-sun-novels/ "The novels' n…
21 Sep 2010, 14:05
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I've linked it in the past. The title is a ref to his latest: http://silkandhornheresy.blogspot.com/2010/09/i-ate-solar-cycle.html…
16 Sep 2010, 20:32
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Doesn't that quote mean that nothing odd is going on (beyond the obvious Gospel allusion or whatever)? "Iron girl" is 3 syllables by my count, as is "good fishing".…
15 Sep 2010, 18:48
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Here's someone who has written a review: http://mordicai.livejournal.com/1817587.html (Must have an advance copy.) "Home Fires is the story of a couple torn apart by war. Sh…
31 Aug 2010, 04:30
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He's referring to the practice of extending houses out into the street (just plop your timbers on top of the cobblestones, or remove the stones first, and build upwards), or just b…
31 Aug 2010, 04:28
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Hm. A future earth, an interstellar war, time travel, and love. Maybe we're getting another entry in the AEG-verse, one which isn't so 'heavily expurgated of the overarching story'…
20 Aug 2010, 04:06
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I would like to be be 'Gene Wolfe' (he is the true monarch of the books, after all!), but if that's the solution, the cipher must be fairly complex - not a straight substitution. N…
14 Aug 2010, 20:14
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Huh. I remember this from Stephen Baxter's Xeelee universe (specifically _Ring_) - the dark matter 'photino birds' were deliberately cooling the Sun to lengthen its lifespan and th…
04 Aug 2010, 15:53
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A somewhat longer review: http://thisplacehere.livejournal.com/115920.html "Wolfe is one of the greats of science fiction, but I found this story only averagely satisfying; i…
27 Jul 2010, 04:44
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I wouldn't want to defend this identification too literally; no more than I would Baldanders=Frankenstein. But I think Borges's library is all libraries; how the pages are split o…
17 Jul 2010, 05:28
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My favored interpretation in this: we all agree that Master Ultan is Jorge Luis Borges. What was one of Borges's most famous short stories? "The Library of Babel"*, containing all …
17 Jul 2010, 01:29
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I was sure that I had, at some point, remarked that Wolfe's books seemed to be getting more political (or perhaps I should say, politically incorrect?) as he got older. However, th…
08 Jul 2010, 10:28
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I saw a book review of a new anthology of stories, called _Stories_, which mentioned it had an entry from Wolfe. http://www.amazon.com/Stories-All-New-Tales-Neil-Gaiman/dp/0061230…
08 Jul 2010, 08:17
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I don't think that this is what the founders thought, but I'd bet good money this is what Gene thinks. I've read through most of _Starwater Strains_ now, and my initial belief has…
02 Jul 2010, 11:50
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Did she? I haven't read it recently, but she's described as digging up the house for a while and searching for Maitre's hidden fortune, and only when she finally dies does Mr. Mill…
26 Jun 2010, 20:34
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http://marianallen.wordpress.com/2010/06/17/the-hound-of-hell/…
21 Jun 2010, 23:23
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On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 2:57 PM, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote: ... As someone who has watched this discussion with skepticism, I can (re)assure you: you sound…
18 Jun 2010, 19:28
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And you only tell us now, in a letter? Villainous! Surely you are the inspiration for Bax.…
16 Jun 2010, 01:06
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Spotted in Google Alerts: http://ubikcan.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/gene-wolfes-soldier-of-the-mist-decoded-asopusplataea/…
15 Jun 2010, 00:22
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My mistake, that was James Wynn - same initials, I guess!…
12 Jun 2010, 01:56
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I see. Will you be extending your little anarchist free speech crusade to the *entirety* of netiquette? Or just the parts that people bring up? I ask for subject changes to match …
08 Jun 2010, 15:21
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I approve of these restrictions. I would also like to add a third suggestion: *please stop changing subjects*! I try not to complain but merely 'mute' or 'killfile' threads I fin…
07 Jun 2010, 21:06
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Ooh! This sounds like a fun Fermi problem.* We can use the Birthday Paradox to find out. One result in the Wikipedia article is that 'This is a result of the good approximation t…
05 Jun 2010, 16:27
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The Samaritans don't count as Jews? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaritans#Religious_beliefs…
04 Jun 2010, 23:30
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Courtesy of the ebooks some have execrated, from _Endangered Species_: "No, we didn't worship the Lung-Rin. It was a symbol, that's all. In the long run, if you know what I mean, …
19 May 2010, 23:05
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Spiral-shaped? Come on, this isn't R.A. Laffferty or _Tengen Toppen Gurren Lagann_. :)…
17 May 2010, 21:20
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On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 2:53 AM, Stephen Hoy <stephenhoy at yahoo.com> wrote: ... Whoa, I don't see any connection there at all. I don't remember Urashima Taro being connected with…
04 May 2010, 12:48
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While thinking about these connections, I thought to myself, what evidence do we have that Wolfe is even familiar with the Tarot? None of these connections seem especially insightf…
28 Apr 2010, 02:20
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I read that as the imagine is about Emlyn's speculation about Goldwurm's thoughts and reasons for not keeping Ambrosius around to question. I don't read it as Emlyn imagining the e…
23 Apr 2010, 20:03
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My take is that the lion-head is another Orientalism; not precisely accurate (no more than the Musashi depicted), but 'through a mirror darkly'. Lions are an extremely common motif…
20 Apr 2010, 16:57
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http://johncwright.livejournal.com/331497.html Connects 3 Borges story to TBOTNS. I don't think the connections will be much controversial. (I do disagree with his theory of Borg…
19 Apr 2010, 23:42
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The latter, I think. Food pervaded AEG too - I think someone on this list quoted Wolfe as saying that the Green Goddess salad dressing wasn't important but a joke and part of a per…
18 Apr 2010, 13:13
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I once tried to read _Dhalgren_; couldn't finish it. As it happens, Delany was a guest this year at I-CON and I attended one of his panels and watched a fair bit of the Delany mov…
16 Apr 2010, 23:33
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I don't like the Doris=Lupine approach. It doesn't gel with the endgame of TSH. If the ghost is Dorpine's soul, then how do we reconcile this with Lupine selling her soul to a dis…
16 Apr 2010, 19:03
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I think it's implied pretty strongly that whomever Lupin sold her soul to, it wasn't Zwart. Zwart would hardly be telling his son to learn, team up with his twin, become a great cu…
11 Apr 2010, 03:30
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I like that transposition idea. We've been looking for a place where there's some transposition since Wolfe clearly tells us to look for one, and such a transposition wouldn't be a…
10 Apr 2010, 02:44
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Mea culpa. I thought for some reason that they were by different mothers, since that makes the story a little less bizarre. (If Rachel is the mother of both, then the story makes e…
09 Apr 2010, 22:54
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Debts. Either because Bax stole the legacy from George by the trick (and if we're going to make Jacob & Esau comparisons, though they weren't twins, Bax would be the scheming Jacob…
09 Apr 2010, 21:37
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Oh noes - he believed the last letter too? /me shakes head at Clute What happened, man? You used to be cool.…
05 Apr 2010, 17:48
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If I had to construct a 'real' story along those lines, I'd go with something like this: 1. Bax moves into the mansion 2. when he tries to regularize his squatting, he goes to Mart…
31 Mar 2010, 00:55
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Given Millie's intellectual prowess (or lack thereof), I think a story targeted solely at Millie would read much simpler than the actual story.…
30 Mar 2010, 23:08
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Found one new to me online: "Unrequited Love" http://goldenpigsy.blogspot.com/2010/03/sorcerers-house-by-gene-wolfe.html…
29 Mar 2010, 23:09
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http://fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com/2010/03/sorcerers-house-by-gene-wolfe-reviewed.html http://goldenpigsy.blogspot.com/2010/03/sorcerers-house-by-gene-wolfe.html (Both agree ab…
29 Mar 2010, 23:08
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