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(Sorry if you got this twice. It didn't seem to go through; lots of bounding on the Urth list....) Here's an example of how precise Wolfe could be when it came to details in his …
01 May 2019, 18:43
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It just crossed my mind to check the published version of "Frostfree" in Shadows of the New Sun, and ... wouldn't you know it? An editor capitalized "Frostfree" on the fridge. It's…
01 May 2019, 00:23
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Here's an example of how precise Wolfe could be when it came to details in his stories. The short story "Frostfree" was commissioned originally for a Festschrift I was editing in h…
28 Apr 2019, 23:09
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You do point out all the typos, etc., you've been able to catch in your book, right, Marc? (I hope!? I think I gave away my Ace Fifth Head when I got a shiny new one, unfortunately…
28 Apr 2019, 22:59
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Maybe those are the words that make sense of the allusions to chess in the book, allusions that are never really developed in the book as we have it today. John -----Original Mes…
27 Apr 2019, 23:22
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These lines are from Isaac Watts's paraphrase of Psalm 90, "O God, Our Help in Ages Past," sometimes "Our God, Our Help in Ages Past" (depending on your hymnal): Our?God, our help …
16 Apr 2019, 23:12
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Here's an updated list of Wolfe blurbs, intros, etc. Feel free to add any others that I've missed. Some of these are thanks to http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/w/gene-wolfe/, wh…
11 Feb 2018, 23:07
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I should have added this: Just a couple chapters before this passage about "wolf-houses" in The City of God, Augustine also talks about werewolves: Finally, he [Varro] ment…
03 Sep 2014, 15:46
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Is there a play on V and Five? John V. Marsch? V.R.T. John -----Original Message----- From: Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com> To: The Urth Mailing List <urth at…
02 Sep 2014, 22:34
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Number 5 says that the house in which he lives is nicknamed "Maison du Chien," partly due to the statue of Cerberus outside and partly as an allusion to the family's last name -- w…
02 Sep 2014, 22:11
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Richard -- The book about the assassination of Leon Trotsky is Bernard Wolfe's The Great Prince Died (alternatively titled Trotsky Dead). Wolfe was, for a while, Trotsky's secret…
01 Sep 2014, 20:43
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... and Gene Wolfe is fully capable of writing about sentient appliances, as "Frostfree" makes clear.... John -----Original Message----- From: Marc Aramini <marcaramini …
07 Aug 2014, 21:15
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What does Gerwel mean when he says that Wolfe is an "unreliable author"? I understand that Wolfe's narrators are unreliable, so that Wolfe is a writer who creates unreliable narra…
28 Jul 2014, 21:33
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Isn't Wolfe seeing resurrection, the eucharist, and Peter the fisherman, not to mention the boat as the church? John -----Original Message----- From: jacobeiserman at gmail.com…
28 Jul 2014, 13:13
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Marc -- This is one of my favorite Wolfe stories. The passage you quoted ("There are things we don’t know about that live in the world with us — things in another plane of reali…
12 May 2014, 19:50
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http://tinyurl.com/Jurgen-s-Sword John -----Original Message----- From: Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com> To: Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com>; The Urth Mailin…
24 Dec 2013, 20:27
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Urthlings -- Perhaps I misspoke in my previous e-mail. Now that I think about it I am not so sure I understand what happens in "Why I Was Hanged." SPOILERS …
24 Oct 2013, 03:18
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Urthers -- I think I understand much of what happens in Wolfe's short story "Why I Was Hanged" (in Ghosts by Gaslight, ed. Jack Dann & Nick Gevers). What I don't understand, how…
23 Oct 2013, 22:59
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Urthers -- Now that "Frostfree" has been published in Shadows of the New Sun and some of you have had a chance to read it, perhaps it would be helpful to mention that the story w…
03 Oct 2013, 21:16
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Urthers -- Coming out in October, an anthology with a new Gene Wolfe story: Melissa Marr & Tim Pratt, eds., Rags and Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales. Wolfe's story, "Uncaged…
03 Oct 2013, 21:09
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If Kypris is in proper relation to the Outsider, then she's just love, isn't she? If you worship Love as a goddess while not serving the Outsider, then she's a destructive and ter…
19 Jun 2013, 23:25
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Sorry, Marc. Somehow I had missed this e-mail of yours when I wrote my question about the voodoo/zombie scene. John -----Original Message----- From: Marc Aramini <mar…
06 Jun 2013, 20:59
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Now explain to me the zombie scene. I suspect that Wolfe has not, at this point, decided to write a fantasy novel instead of a science fiction novel. That is, he hasn't decided…
06 Jun 2013, 20:11
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There is a two volume collection of his "strange stories," but it is rare and expensive. Nor does it include The Model, which seems like a good starting place. John -----Origin…
12 Oct 2012, 05:02
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URTHlings -- Recently I read Robert Aickman's The Model, a book which is blurbed by (among others) Robert Bloch, Fritz Leiber, and Gene Wolfe. Wolfe says about it: "The late Ro…
11 Oct 2012, 23:07
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Marc -- Thanks for the survey of Operation ARES. You write: It seems to me that Wolfe is inviting us to view the novel in terms of chess. Castle is, I suppose, a rook. The Capt…
26 Jun 2012, 20:24
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Maybe the librarian is blind? John -----Original Message----- From: Fred Kiesche <godelescherbach at gmail.com> To: The Urth Mailing List <urth at lists.urth.net> Sent: …
20 Mar 2012, 13:13
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Interpretive excitement producing momentary blindness, of course. The article DOESN'T say that flying these things is any sort of "tradition," though I wish it did. =) Something …
04 Jan 2012, 23:58
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Just saw this in the news: _http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/886379-flying-shark-spotted-7-000ft-in-the-sky -shocks-airline-pilot_ (http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/886379-flying-shark-…
04 Jan 2012, 22:11
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In a message dated 12/16/2011 3:27:23 P.M. Central Standard Time, danldo at gmail.com writes: How could I forget Nutria? Oy. And Nick Gevers. Just remembering.... John…
16 Dec 2011, 21:42
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Dan'l writes: And James B. Jordan ("Patera Nutria"). What you've described is precisely why I lurk and rarely read the list. John…
16 Dec 2011, 21:24
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In a message dated 6/15/2011 2:41:10 P.M. Central Daylight Time, kierkegaurdian at gmail.com writes: My guess, without looking at it closely, would be that Wolfe might have …
15 Jun 2011, 20:07
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James writes: That sounds good ... but Valorius makes it sound as if the traveler doesn't WANT to meet someone like him. He says something like "Choose your path and stick …
27 May 2011, 20:35
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Thanks for the response, James. I understand that a knight can take a queen in chess. But I'm not persuaded that that's what happens at the end of "Bloodsport." First, Val…
26 May 2011, 23:07
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In a message dated 5/26/2011 4:53:38 P.M. Central Daylight Time, crushtv at gmail.com writes: Huh. I searched the archives online for "Bloodsport" and nothing came up. Tha…
26 May 2011, 22:07
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Urthers -- Last night, I read Wolfe's recent short story "Bloodsport" in Swords & Dark Magic, ed. Jonathan Strahan and Lou Anders (Eos, 2010) and noticed that it hasn't recei…
26 May 2011, 21:23
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Gerry responds: Sorry for the confusion. I put "Gene Wolfe" in quotation marks because I wasn't referring to the *author* of Fifth Head of Cerberus, but to the character. …
27 Jun 2010, 15:25
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_severiansola at hotmail.com_ (mailto:severiansola at hotmail.com) writes: Why have a robot raise the children? It seems to me that it's to ensure that the education they r…
26 Jun 2010, 19:52
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In a discussion of Wolfe's views of other gods, it might be helpful to factor in "When I Was Ming the Merciless." All my books are in boxes right now, alas, so I can't look up…
19 May 2010, 22:29
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URTHers -- I glanced at a copy of Jeff VanderMeer's recent novel, Shriek -- An Afterword, and discovered that it has a blurb by Gene Wolfe: "Here is a desert island book, a …
11 May 2010, 22:32
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Gwern writes: That's the Wolfe interview. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeUqsCVWY-o) No, this is a 3-part discussion largely by Joffre Swait, a friend of mine and the ow…
17 Feb 2010, 17:49
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Urthers -- Once upon a time, I came across an interview with Wolfe online in which he was asked to name his favorite horror books. I was unfamiliar with most of the ones he …
10 Aug 2009, 03:27
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Milton writes: I haven't read Sidon yet, but ... surely the matter of his memory-problem has yet to be resolved. That is, I assume Wolfe didn't intend it to be just some we…
20 Jul 2009, 23:10
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James Wynn writes: I don't know about Wolfe, but here's what Lin Carter once wrote: ********************************* And this past year we lost another writer to whom I owe…
20 Jul 2009, 18:33
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Jon writes: I'm baffled. Why should a YA novel include "an element of didacticism"? Some YA novels have that, I suppose, but hardly all of them. Read, for instance, Megan…
15 Apr 2009, 22:15
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In a message dated 4/3/2009 11:11:33 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, brunians at brunians.org writes: _http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze2tmhh/wolfejbj.html#sold_ (http://members…
03 Apr 2009, 20:14
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_http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2009/03/toc-other-earths-edited-by-nick-gevers-and-jay-lake/_ (http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2009/03/toc-other-earths-edited-by-nick-gevers-an…
11 Mar 2009, 22:26
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Nick, have you been holding out on us? I see that a new Wolfe story, "Donovan Sent Me," is due to come out in Other Earths, edited by our own Nick Gevers. _http://www.sfsign…
11 Mar 2009, 04:39
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15 Jan 2009, 06:47
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So ... does it mean anything that Wolfe doesn't have a story in any of the 2008 Year's Best Fantasy or Science Fiction volumes? Did he just not publish any good stories this y…
19 Dec 2008, 07:03
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