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"Another avern for you", said Agilus Hmmm. I thought they were "shadowless" because they were in continuous dark? Although, no doubt they interpreted it the other way. But the Asc…
30 Jul 2002, 18:45
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Hmmm... well if she's a former sailor, perhaps her sailing experience is not limited to the water. If she's been a crewman on a ship like Severian was on to retrieve the New Sun...…
29 Jul 2002, 14:37
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Phoebe Davis said: It certainly has mystical associations for the Carajas and some connection to the game or dance of capoeirado, although links are in Portugese or non-existant...…
23 Jul 2002, 19:31
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Joe Eull said: "Among the birds is the inhuma, which is: ...a gigantic and mysterious fowl, bigger than a cock capercailzie but built on more or less the same lines. These would ta…
22 Jul 2002, 17:54
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David A Baird said: ... the Hieros/Hierogrammates/Hierodules are creations from Urths past and now they want the new sun so that Urth can regain it's glory and then in turn recreat…
18 Jul 2002, 16:14
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David A Baird said: ... the Hieros/Hierogrammates/Hierodules are creations from Urths past and now they want the new sun so that Urth can regain it's glory and then in turn recre…
17 Jul 2002, 18:41
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I'm inclined toward short-timeline theories myself - simply because I don't think beyond a maximum of a million years in the future, the characters could credibly be considered hum…
17 Jul 2002, 15:52
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http://www.op.net/~pduggan/wolfestore.html Here's a nice listing of books in print. Incidentally, Mantis was surely too modest to mention that that fine publication Lexicon Urthus…
16 Jul 2002, 19:01
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The following is the story of Typhonâs war with Zeus and the Olympians as told by Apollodorus. It is a story that seems rife with potential background for Wolfeâs Typhon. Unfor…
01 Jul 2002, 17:57
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or "not human". Or maybe just "foreign to the Commonwealth", like Loyal to the Group of Seventeen, and presumably Ash.<<<<<<< Crush clarifies his murky perspective: For purposes…
20 Jun 2002, 21:22
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Of course, if yours or this alternate nomenclature is a true Rosetta Stone, then Nessus should be an alien being.<<< I don't think I was clear in this paragraph that I was proposi…
20 Jun 2002, 14:24
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Even if your assignations are true, why is it a given that Typhon bears an *alien* name (presuming "alien" means a non-human species). Why could GW have not assigned mythological n…
19 Jun 2002, 21:54
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Tsk. Tsk. Blattid, Blattid, Blattid, I just cannot let this one pass. ;-) If I accept your argument, then G-d didn't destroy the earth with water the first time since Noah, his wi…
17 Jun 2002, 16:30
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The thought occurs to me that the Deluge of Ushas *could* be the Deluge of Noah - that the Story of Noah could be the a mythological telling of the Ushas Deluge...OR the Noah story…
17 Jun 2002, 14:39
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I think it's funny that someone would call quantum electrodynamics "straightforward". Clearly there should be a novel about wherever you work. ;-) - Crush -----Original Message-…
12 Jun 2002, 15:23
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I really would NOT place a lot of weight on this particular statement of Wolfe's in the quoted interview. It's just too difficult to reconcile the other clues. I think there is no …
12 Jun 2002, 13:56
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I agree. Actually, I think the operative sentence here is "Severian is a Christian rather than a Christ." Although, to me for some reason, saying Severian is a Christian is a more …
12 Jun 2002, 13:31
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Ah! Yes. Here's the quote: JJ: The holy slaves [Heirodules], Famulimus or one of them tells Severian that he is the center of his race, the savior of his race. That is such Christl…
11 Jun 2002, 19:24
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The recent talk about Chadwick's "History of the Early Church" made me think of another Church history book that I'm convinced is sitting on Wolfe's shelf at this moment: Eusebius'…
11 Jun 2002, 16:25
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I seem to recall an expansion theory in which the universe eternally expands, collapses, and expands again in an unending cycle of big bangs and big gnabs. According to this theory…
11 Jun 2002, 14:54
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Just to fill out the background material on pagan: Henry Chadwick is the author of the Penguin-published "History of the Early Church" (a book I thoroughly enjoyed-but I can't fin…
10 Jun 2002, 18:38
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Hey, I'm also new. The Acian War *could* be thought of as a proxy war, but it could just as easily be viewed as a resistance war against an occupying force. If there is any correla…
07 Jun 2002, 18:21
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