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And why does that require that mountains which were not formed by natural forces (such as rain and wind) to be perpendicular to the Long Sun as well? Why assume that when much of…
25 Jan 2009, 18:46
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Me: Jeff: [sigh] Look. There's mountains in the Whorl are just like any other mountains. But the axis of mountains are not perpendicular to the Long Sun. Imagine a mountain and…
25 Jan 2009, 18:06
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Pick me up a frapacino while you're there. Personally, I've always suspected that Adama healed up way too fast when Athena shot him. J…
25 Jan 2009, 16:42
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Well, the Whorl's topography *is* Dali-esque. And we know that it has mountains. That's how the Cargo is prevented from reaching the other portions of the ship. J…
25 Jan 2009, 14:44
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So? Same difference. If the ground slopes non-perpendicular to the central light, object perpendicular to the ground will cast shadows. If a mountain is not perpendicular to the …
25 Jan 2009, 03:50
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Unless they are always filled with shadow, right? I'm just north of the 30th parallel. If it were noon on the summer solstice right now, I would cast a shadow. J…
25 Jan 2009, 01:01
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The Neighbors said they let them in. Getting inside the Whorl was easy for them. Once you have help from the inside, it's easy. J…
25 Jan 2009, 00:01
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I don't understand the controversy here. Absolutely not true. The premise here seems to be that all the land in the Whorl is "flat" (relative to the LS), and the mountains all po…
24 Jan 2009, 21:46
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Only if the asteroid were of uniform density on all sides which is unlikely. The engineering permutations to cause an asteroid of undefined dimensions and mass to spin uniformly …
24 Jan 2009, 02:01
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Strange. I was just thinking that Linda Hunt (with big fake Bubba teeth) would be ideal for Incus. :-)…
16 Jan 2009, 03:54
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Based on Remora's words, Silk is not a slight figure. I would say Dolf Lungren would be a better casting choice. J…
15 Jan 2009, 05:08
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Roy said. Dave Tallman replied: That's true, and time-disjunction is addressed in the story. But then it is only addressed in the sense of ethermail, so one has to clear some bra…
23 Dec 2008, 00:14
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To take control of them from whom? The Squid God? One man's wild-eyed revolutionary is another's liberator. The lesser king who described the events to Cassie seemed to see W.R. a…
23 Dec 2008, 00:11
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I thought that was the whole point of the clone theory. The clone theory allows murderer Reis to give Cassie a deadly bracelet, and island king Rosenquist to fall in love with Ca…
22 Dec 2008, 00:41
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[...] The Clone Theory is T for #1 if one presumes his clone saw it instead. I don't actually think it counts for much anyway since it doesn't occur in the Rusterman conversation…
21 Dec 2008, 18:26
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Roy took umbrage: First off: This is unmitigated crap. I tied together the points I was directly responding to with an ellipsis . Since when are the additional brackets required…
21 Dec 2008, 09:17
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It's true that Cassie wears green prior to the party, but this solution is no more "text-based" than your prior theory. It is significantly less so, really, since it relies on re…
21 Dec 2008, 03:53
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Errr...if this is so, why didn't her star power allow her to penetrate it later in the restaurant when she watched him disappear?…
19 Dec 2008, 01:05
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They're in print, but that's the way it is with Wolfe. You can get them off of Amazon or Abebooks. The Science Fiction Book Club put out a compiled edition of "Short Sun".…
18 Dec 2008, 02:31
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I just remembered something else that tips the balance in favor of Roy's clone theory. When the President is briefing Chase: ------- [The president says] "...come in, John! I said…
16 Dec 2008, 03:25
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Sigh. Tsk tsk tsk. Here comes a litany of elaborate theories for each of a series of pointless "lies" Reis/Rosenquist/Rusterman tells a when a single global explanation stands a…
15 Dec 2008, 01:23
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Well, it is frustrating in that Apheta is clear about what they do and why they do it but not why it is necessary to do it as opposed to doing something else. So it is not clear …
14 Dec 2008, 19:20
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Well, well, well, Roy. Now we are getting someplace. Welcome. We've been expecting you. (bwahahaha) You see, after Norma's murder, she reflects on the cops query about who would …
14 Dec 2008, 17:44
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Let's post this in Plain Text. David, Yes, I agree, the Hierogrammates are casuality-based beings they can only exist in some relative Time. However, when you say: You are maki…
14 Dec 2008, 07:39
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David, Yes, I agree, the Hierogrammates are casuality-based beings they can only exist in some relative Time. However, when you say: You are making a conclusive leap here. The st…
14 Dec 2008, 06:49
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I have absolutely no aversion to clone theories per se, yet I think I can give you heartening news that I don't think any of this means Rian is a clone. Klauser IMO thinks Ries's…
14 Dec 2008, 05:38
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Since Time collapses with successive universes, the idea of "sequentiality" between universes would be either naive or would mean something totally different from what we mean by…
13 Dec 2008, 21:17
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I thought they were "Gray Neighbors" mentioned at the Wrap Party at the beginning of the book. The fact that they are there means that Chase is a wizard, not merely a scientist o…
11 Dec 2008, 14:17
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Right. Roy wouldn't like your reasoning since it relies on evidence-by-reference, but I find it pretty conclusive all by itself. As it is, there are other signs pointing to Erebu…
10 Dec 2008, 04:42
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People rarely comprehend how philsophically tight Christianity fit within the 1st century world helping it spread so quickly. The Jews were looking for a messiah at the time and …
06 Dec 2008, 21:56
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So you're saying he's a Christian, not a Christ.…
06 Dec 2008, 06:15
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I'd be curious to read a point-by-point detailing of all this supposedly explicit Christian symbolism in "The Book of the New Sun". I'm usually pretty good at this sort of thing.…
06 Dec 2008, 03:47
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This theory shows shocking na?vet? about cosmology considering the interest its creator must have had in the subject: "Thirty years after Christ's birth he was baptized. Thirty d…
05 Dec 2008, 04:49
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House Absolute>I don't have the text to hand so I cannot verify till Tim, It is true that the House Absolute is not in Nessus. So all that is beside the point. But the Asciians c…
01 Dec 2008, 13:44
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I think Roy has put his finger on the biggest problem when reading Wolfe. Any "big picture" must conform to the details. But it is impossible to separate the wheat details from t…
29 Nov 2008, 06:51
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Maybe so. I do think I'm getting a scratchy throat!…
18 Nov 2008, 00:41
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I heard from Teri this morning. They still haven't arrived at a diagnosis. It seems Nigel won't get to go home *at least* until Wednesday. Meanwhile, the Wolfe clan has checked h…
17 Nov 2008, 17:47
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Here's my report from WindyCon 35: First of all, Nigel Price is in the hospital. He was taken by ambulance on Saturday morning when he could not get out of bed. He does not seem …
17 Nov 2008, 01:49
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"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried." --Winston Churchill J.…
06 Nov 2008, 20:12
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Robert Borski had some theories related to Hyacinth's umbrella. That's the only metion I remember.…
06 Nov 2008, 02:58
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Actually, I don't think Latro will ever get home until he passes through India, Micronesia, Columbia, Ireland, Britain, Germania, and Slavakia. I asked Wolfe once if he anticipated…
04 Nov 2008, 02:13
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In The Book of the Short Sun, Horn remembers the following from his childhood: "I once had a toy, a little wooden man in a blue coat who was moved by strings. When I played with…
03 Nov 2008, 23:57
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IIRC, Severian believes that they are normal humans who have been artificially modified for the purpose the Autarch puts them to. He even posits that they might be aware that they …
01 Nov 2008, 19:25
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That's a good point. I was trying to remember how I associated Hera with Gaea. It turns out it was our old pal Robert Graves in "The Greek Myths" (a book Wolfe has recommended), …
12 Oct 2008, 18:32
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Well, as with so many things about the myths it is not entirely clear that Hercules was originally understood as Hera's enemy. His Greek name, HERACLES, means "Glory of Hera". St…
12 Oct 2008, 07:31
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The purpose of this sort of collection to me is to loan out to friends who are unfamiliar with Wolfe. This way, they can experience the best of Wolfe without getting detracted by s…
11 Oct 2008, 21:35
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John, I haven't read "Junie Moon" but "White Cow Moon" is almost certainly a reference to Io (who was the moon). She was one of Zeus's rape victims. In order to hide her from pe…
11 Oct 2008, 21:28
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Keep us posted on when this will be. I'm trying to decide whether to come in on Friday night or late Saturday morning. I wish the schedule at WindyCon were better (or at all) nai…
11 Oct 2008, 20:56
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If it were a typo, then it has been replicated across multiple editions. I think one needs a significant evidence before settling on the typo explanation. Thecla's memory (and a…
09 Oct 2008, 13:45
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The citation is Claw chapter 21. It is during Sev's discussion with the androgyne. The book is the one with mirrors for pages. Personally, Sev's reaction doesn't give me the same…
01 Oct 2008, 13:33
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