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Finished Pirate Freedom. Now I can get on to The Sorcerer's House. Going through the discussions from 18 months ago I only have this to add: Discussions of the Catholic/Christian…
25 Mar 2010, 22:02
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Fernando, adamantly denies he said this. It was someone else he was respond to. My mistake. Sorry.…
24 Mar 2010, 00:10
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Amazon messed up my shipping. The Sorcerer's House is supposedly sitting at my door right now. I'm almost done with Pirate Freedom. Haven't found a puzzle yet that isn't carefully…
23 Mar 2010, 22:16
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At a panel, Wolfe said that the covers on The Book of the New Sun got progressively worse with each cover as the expectations of the publisher increased. He said, no one expected m…
23 Mar 2010, 21:39
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When this happens to me, it is invariably that I have inadvertently sent the posting using the wrong email account. J.…
23 Mar 2010, 20:20
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The conversation between the boy and the monkey in The Sailor Who Sailed After the Sun is bound to be appealing to children. Also the reaction of the other sailors to the monkey. …
23 Mar 2010, 18:07
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Andrew, Some recomendations based on lessons learned: 1) Don't spend a lot of money on the books initially. Kids are absolute terrors to books. If they like them, they will read …
23 Mar 2010, 16:33
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I miss being able to read to my kids. Fortunately I still have one daughter who is willing to read to ME on long drives. Let's see (for what it's worth)... Check out the Golden …
22 Mar 2010, 23:48
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...due to a "conflicting schedule". <shakes fist at the universe> J.…
22 Mar 2010, 09:40
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This is probably true for all Wolfe's novels going back to Fifth Head, so I'm not sure I understand Witcover's beef. Even AEG was like The Book of the New Sun in that on the first …
11 Mar 2010, 16:43
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http://www.lawrenceperson.com/?p=941 He also has a picture of Wolfe at ReaderCon last year: http://www.lawrenceperson.com/?tag=science-fiction J.…
10 Mar 2010, 18:28
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That's something else I heard Wolfe say at a panel. He said that people at cons often gift him with books, but the truth is that as writer he really doesn't have time to read for p…
09 Mar 2010, 19:53
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Also, out of curiosity I downloaded Nightside of the Long Sun and had my suspicions confirmed. The text was merely OCR'd and never cleaned up. So these texts are of limited value e…
08 Mar 2010, 21:50
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It depends on where it is hosted, I suppose. That's the way it has always been with copyright laws, I think. Fortunately, I suspect the actual harm these publishers and authors is…
08 Mar 2010, 21:44
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I think the blogger should read MORE of Wolfe's more overtly Christian stories, starting with the old "The Detective of Dreams", in order to develop a thicker skin. In my literary …
08 Mar 2010, 11:44
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There's one thing, unsaid, that I picked up emphatically from Wolfe's panels last September: He is extremely happy with AEG. Cassie is one of his favorite protagonists EVER and Rei…
05 Mar 2010, 21:26
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Well, I posted some before recently but.... 1. Plan to write no more than 10 minutes a day, at least at the beginning. If you do that, you will always talk about "the novel I am w…
05 Mar 2010, 21:00
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Well he was at Balticon last summer IIRC. Incidentally, I just found Cory Doctorow's post on "Gene Wolfe's Rules for Writers" http://www.boingboing.net/2004/03/03/gene-wolfes-rule…
04 Mar 2010, 22:22
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Anyone else going to be at Comicpalooza? J.…
04 Mar 2010, 22:10
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Maybe it was a fluke. I just tried it.…
04 Mar 2010, 22:08
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I've mentioned this before but it bears repeating. A few Wolfe panels are every bit as useful as (or more than) a semester long Creative Writing course. Wolfe's advice about being …
09 Feb 2010, 21:02
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Just got word that Gene will be at Comicpalooza in Houston 3/26-28. I'll be getting my copy signed there. J.…
04 Feb 2010, 19:13
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I couldn't tell you exactly where, but I'm pretty sure Latro is told that it was Demeter who struck him. J.…
28 Jan 2010, 22:32
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I just looked up the story. The serpent was the son of Ares. I guess that makes Latro the dragon. J.…
23 Jan 2010, 20:28
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I agree, but I think there is an Io connection (maybe lots for all I know). That fountain Latro comes to before they take him to Apollo's temple is connected to the story of Cadmu…
23 Jan 2010, 20:06
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Perhaps, but Latro gathers followers and admirers pretty quickly. We don't know how they met because Latro didn't write it down before he forgot the event. Well, I don't know if s…
22 Jan 2010, 22:09
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Interesting, that big about anamnesis. There were thriving Greek colonies on the Italian peninsula, which explains Latro’s knowledge of the language and aspects of Greek culture. I…
21 Jan 2010, 23:58
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I will be very surprised if you are wrong about Hyacinth. J.…
19 Jan 2010, 14:32
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Yeah, but (for me) puzzling over Wolfe's stories is interesting because I believe there is a "right" answer. I don't think it matters to the basic plot of the story whether Hyaci…
19 Jan 2010, 07:20
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After banging together (what I believed to be) every conceivable theory of Hyacinth's "true" nature, I am now confident (as I implied) that she is Fava. Those that only see in h…
18 Jan 2010, 04:09
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He's got no one to blame but himself.…
16 Jan 2010, 04:10
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The number of sprats were the commissioner's.With 7 or 8 brothers and sisters, I would think one of them would make an appearance or a the very least get named. I admit the way Che…
16 Jan 2010, 04:08
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1) I don't equate the Rajan with Silk. Silk died. He slashed his wrists in front of Hyacinth's coffin. What's left of Silk is his body and his memory. For Horn, all that's left is …
15 Jan 2010, 18:53
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Ehh...okay, but I'm not convinced. Incidentally, understanding that the Rajan is time-traveling through Viron makes viable my personal opinion about the identity of Hyacinth's "fa…
15 Jan 2010, 17:13
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Severian thought the Rajan was Malrubius (Silk and Malrubius did both had eyesight issues), and Silk thought the Rajan was Patera Pike (IMO the description of events of the night "…
14 Jan 2010, 22:29
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It did *look* like merely a prediction, until his family arrived and they were immediately treated as an offering. I didn't say there would be no other white people, but there see…
08 Jan 2010, 01:25
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Neither. Baden is given idea that he is being sent on a particularly unpleasant assignment. An assignment he would only take because the other choice is firing. The tone of his b…
06 Jan 2010, 16:27
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When I spoke with Gene about it in Atlanta, he confirmed that it is the same island. Incidentally, I strongly recommend "Innocents Aboard" (in which TTIMH is collected) . It is …
06 Jan 2010, 02:46
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I thought the point was that the US government wanted his *method* of producing gold. For all the reasons you named, it would be a valuable technology. But you bring up the possi…
05 Jan 2010, 18:17
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Perhaps Chase is using different variables based on empirical data in other non-aging cultures. Perhaps un-aging cultures tend toward more violence and risk. And for self-slaught…
04 Jan 2010, 16:28
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Gwern: It is a staple of Wolfe characters that they see through the superficial to the truth. Gwern: check. Gwern: check, check, check Gwern: I don't see how these are impe…
04 Jan 2010, 16:24
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I think I'm missing something. Cassie Casey takes 1 and a half steps into the stateroom and sees herself in a mirror (presumably) even before she sees the pictures of Pavlatos. A…
04 Jan 2010, 15:04
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Or time travel or both. At Dragon*Con, Wolfe said, "Cassie loved Bill Reis and at the end of the novel she goes to Woldercon to look for him." After a re-read, I'm convinced tha…
04 Jan 2010, 09:16
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You as well Dan'l!…
21 Dec 2009, 18:22
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Dan'l says: This is so far off. Where to begin? 1) Getting married was not the START of his project. The start was that 95 Theses nailed to the door of the church. In response L…
21 Dec 2009, 11:57
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See my post to John. For he record, I think excising the deterocanon was justified, although I recommend them for reading anyway. Oh! So Luther not *liking* the Book of James was…
21 Dec 2009, 03:49
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John, I absolutely agree with pts 1&2. On pt 2, I'll go farther and posit that Judaism was *recreated* to a large extent in the 2nd century to enable it to go on after the dest…
21 Dec 2009, 01:15
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Dan'l, When you are presented with a choice with existential Ah! Well, they didn't "toss" the deuterocanon because there was some theology in them they didn't like ("suit them")…
20 Dec 2009, 06:13
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I'm not sure "to suit themselves" is the right term. They were led to their positions by a series of empirical observations of the Roman Catholic religion in practice. In the end…
19 Dec 2009, 10:18
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Hmmm...This seems to affirm that "brunians" is synonymous with "radical". So I suppose it is logically consistent.…
18 Dec 2009, 19:50
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