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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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_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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Urthers -- Last night, I read "Has Anybody Seen Junie Moon?" for the first time. It's in Starwater Strains and, to my surprise, is being reprinted in the new Best Of, which …
11 Oct 2008, 20:26
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Urthlings -- I'm in the midst of Innocents Aboard. I read "Wolfer" last night and "The Eleventh City" this morning, and I have a few questions about each of them. I didn't …
07 Feb 2008, 23:43
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Some months ago, _lycanthrosaurus at fastmail.fm_ I caught "Pat the Rat." But who are the two characters from New Sun? I seem to have missed them. John ***********…
11 Jan 2008, 23:44
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Urthers -- Have we discussed "Slow Children at Play" on this list? I looked in the archives and couldn't find anything, but perhaps I missed it. There are SPOILERS in what …
12 Sep 2007, 16:54
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Urthers -- I don't recall seeing any discussion of this already on this list, and I couldn't find any when I searched the archives, so please forgive me if this has been brou…
04 May 2007, 00:46
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Urthlings -- Have I been asleep? A couple new Wolfe stories I don't recall seeing mentioned on this list: * "Six From Atlantis" in Cross Plains Universe (_http://www.amazon…
21 Mar 2007, 23:38
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Urthlings -- I don't know if anyone has pointed this out here before or not, but I just saw that Gene Wolfe wrote the intro for Vera Nazarian's _Salt of the Air_ (_http://www.…
21 Mar 2007, 23:27
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