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The assimilation of devoured prey memories is almost certainly a product of genetic engineering by the Yesodis, if not Father Inire himself, to use the analept to produce a truly e…
07 Feb 2013, 16:48
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The non-fading of the unrelated religions in India and China fail to support this hypothesis of Christian Manifest Destiny.…
24 Dec 2012, 21:21
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Horus, the posthumously fathered son of Osiris, represented rebirth. Osiris stays dead and represented the flesh of the dead nourishing life. If the images are taken from Egyptia…
23 Dec 2012, 03:21
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Yes. Typhon already was victorious; he conquered Urth and many nearby worlds. The diminishment of the sun led to his downfall, but that same diminishment leads to Ash's timeline…
23 Dec 2012, 03:15
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Did Pournelle write any books before his friend Niven wrote RINGWORLD?…
02 Dec 2012, 23:50
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Charlie intentionally writes to different levels of plausibility. Halting State and Rule 34 are more like slightly futuristic technothrillers, he complained in his blog that the ne…
29 Nov 2012, 19:26
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Isaiah 6: "6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7 With it he touched my mouth and said, 'See, this ha…
27 Nov 2012, 04:45
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Yes, but when the word is used for multi-winged angels "burning ones" is more literal, because one tests a prophet with a hot coal, IIRC.…
26 Nov 2012, 21:39
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I don't think seraphim are affirmatively both angelic and serpentine in the canonical books.…
26 Nov 2012, 20:37
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I think it's more about the contrariness of being the lowest of the low, that they purposefully put themselves at the bottom of the heap because they have no scruples about what …
26 Nov 2012, 20:24
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Typhon absolutely plays the serpent's part when he shows Sev all the countries of Urth and offers him dominion over them in return for his oath of fealty.…
26 Nov 2012, 09:39
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2nd to last para of SWORD XXXI: "I had not thought, when I began this record of my life, to reveal any of the secrets of our guild that were imparted to me by Master Palaemon and…
25 Nov 2012, 01:27
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Good show locating this textev, Badger!…
25 Nov 2012, 00:33
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If you're responding to my question about fanged animals, what is the claw/thorn's tie-in with the book of Genesis?…
03 Nov 2012, 02:52
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Why would a fang suggest a serpent more than any other fanged animal?…
03 Nov 2012, 01:30
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Found at I, Cringely, a technology blog: http://www.cringely.com/2012/10/09/off-with-their-heads-why-financial-regulation-stopped-working/ "Thirty years ago, when I was working …
15 Oct 2012, 05:42
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Hm. How do the different creating duties break down among the Trinity again?…
02 Oct 2012, 01:09
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Are Galatea and Pygmalion incestuous?…
01 Oct 2012, 16:16
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Ding-ding-ding-ding-ding! Creation, not reproduction.…
01 Oct 2012, 03:59
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I think you can have a single sexed creator if the created is the other sex.…
30 Sep 2012, 08:27
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I can see rabbits as suggesting the caricatured Japanese rodentlike dentition common in Wolfe's youth, and perpetrated by Bugs Bunny at least once. Considering Wolfe's recently m…
09 Sep 2012, 21:36
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"He screamed wordlessly and ran, and as he did so dark eyes, timid but bright with an intelligence not found in any animal, followed him from the depths of a thicket of yellowing…
09 Sep 2012, 21:16
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There are several, but the one that's friends with Marc Aramani is "our" Gene Wolfe.…
05 Sep 2012, 05:42
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There's no particular reason for both eyes or both lungs to have identically symmetric responses to radiation or other carninogens, even if both were exposed to identical amounts…
05 Sep 2012, 05:29
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The same way smoking can ruin one of your lungs. People with two bad lungs die and are not observed; the wogs with two blind eyes die for lack of care or stay indoors for safety …
31 Aug 2012, 20:47
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Could it be more of the exploded pipeline following them through time? Hostage against the villagers following him?…
30 Aug 2012, 02:46
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"Al-Queda peed in it, Mom, I swear!"…
03 Aug 2012, 13:29
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I did note that they targeted Montana, one of the thinnest and least populous states. :)…
03 Aug 2012, 13:14
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Quite possibly. The HBO adaptation has intentionally assigned regional British accents (not always successfully) to characters based on their analagous places of origin, with Lon…
03 Aug 2012, 12:51
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Apparently not: http://wildfiretoday.com/2012/05/02/al-qaeda-magazine-encourages-forest-fire-arson-in-the-us/…
03 Aug 2012, 11:34
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It's Catelyn's decision to blame the child. If Jon Snow truly is a get of the old dynasty, Ned saved his life and probably prevented a civil war given how vigorously all the othe…
03 Aug 2012, 11:33
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Yes, however, as the number of radicals hardcore enough to do some unthinkable thing starts off very small, as they do more of it it becomes thinkable to more, less hardcore peop…
02 Aug 2012, 21:32
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That difference is largely in the eye of the media consumers in countries that rely on popular support of government.…
02 Aug 2012, 21:11
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There are a few religious personas, but they do not seem terribly popular. Also, I don't know of a kingdom or other outfit that grants religious rank.…
02 Aug 2012, 04:51
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I've had the wonderful honor to hobnob with various elder authors who were quite cogent. Damon Knight, for example, sounded like one of the cool kids despite being in his late 70…
02 Aug 2012, 04:16
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There's more at the link and in other publicity he's done about the books and show. The characters need realistic personalities to reflect the concerns of those human hearts rat…
02 Aug 2012, 04:05
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It seems to be it would depend on the man.…
02 Aug 2012, 03:52
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Considering how much press and FUD just a threat like a fake bomb scare can get, it wouldn't have to be even as "big" as a natural fire. Natural and accidental fires happen infr…
02 Aug 2012, 03:44
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That's probably the best way you can go about it, given GRRM's statement quoted in my other post. The character detail is realistic, the setting detail is subject to benign negle…
01 Aug 2012, 23:39
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Sort of: http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/07/08/game-of-thrones-author-george-r-r-martin-spills-the-secrets-of-a-dance-with-dragons/ "You once said that fantasy needs to refl…
01 Aug 2012, 23:35
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Martin has some literary chops, but I am more familiar with his earlier short stories, like the Hugo and Neb winning "Sandkings" : http://www.scribd.com/doc/36218355/1979-Sandkin…
01 Aug 2012, 17:45
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Could it be an ape?…
01 Aug 2012, 02:37
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Did anyone check out Amanda Palmer after Wolfe's fondness for "Coin-Operated Boy" was revealed? Numerous, similarly dark themes in their work, not just robots and the objectifica…
30 May 2012, 23:25
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That was my understanding, but I'm puzzled why this is said to have cost him an award he didn't actually have.…
22 May 2012, 08:39
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Why did he lose the award from Asimov's mistake?…
22 May 2012, 05:50
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I suppose the hierodules and other Yesodis sort of represent the memory of a fabled golden age that never was. They "know" humanity can do better and strive to better it a bit li…
17 May 2012, 10:07
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I get that sense, but that Urth has staggered on in obstinate mediocrity long after the mega-culture has flamed out. Typhon sets up shop between the trunkless legs of Ozymandias.…
17 May 2012, 08:45
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We get to see both his hands have their full compliment of digits in the lower video. Right hand between 4:00 and 5:00, left between 7:00 and 8:00. Sorry, Lee.…
03 May 2012, 08:17
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Kool-Aid, homes http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Ar6xC8KM-jk#t=9s…
02 May 2012, 05:14
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Interesting futurism note: Wolfe substantially predicts the ad-driven free service model common to many internet-era startups 30-40 years later. Also, Mark XX is an early instanc…
24 Apr 2012, 02:02
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