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If the Bay Area workshop is a success, I'd love to participate in a Chicago or East Coast version. relurking, cephalothorax…
27 Jul 2003, 16:25
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That as _Urth_ for me. I was annoyed and confused when I first read it. It just seemed to be a bunch more stuff tacked onto the end of TBOTLS. After reading this list for awhile, a…
27 May 2002, 12:32
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Just a god going for a Sunday stroll. He possessed Pig for the same reason he listens silently from the windows. BTW, is just me, or does "The Divine Silk" sound like a transvestit…
05 Feb 2001, 20:36
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So I've finished RTTW, and enjoyed it as much as I thought I would (lots), but I was surprised by... well, let me add some Spoiler space here... Okay. I was surprised by ho…
01 Feb 2001, 17:58
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Ahoy, ahoy, I thoroughly enjoyed IGJ, and have since thoroughly enjoyed catching up on the discussion here. Here's my two cents... The Inhumi Secret: Although I wish it were oth…
02 Aug 2000, 10:46
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If Green is Venus on the basis that steamy dinosaury jungle planets are always Venus, then the Long Sun Whorl is the moon, which is riddled with underground kingdoms in the same so…
14 Jan 2000, 11:40
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When I read the part where Mucor said the fish would be waiting on a rock, I just assumed that she possessed the fish, and drove them to leap out of the water. I was confused that …
09 Nov 1999, 13:25
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It's been what, four months since I was last on this list? MOved to the Big City and haven't made arrangements for reliable access in my new digs. Since then I've picked up the Dr.…
20 Dec 1997, 22:43
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Kevin McGuire say: unreasonable thought) or is the monitor in the lander a bit sharper/more independent? Or was there a Monitor Directive #305 - "If an inhumi says left, go right…
15 Jul 1997, 16:24
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I'm still working out my whole Wolfe-women thinga-ma-doogey in typically slow, plodding fashion. Upon closer inspection and slower reflection I'd been leaning towards it having mor…
14 Jul 1997, 15:39
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My first impression of "Hues" was that it was a sci-fi Antichrist story. When it was brought up on the list and I was thinking back to it, pretty much all I could remember about wa…
11 Jul 1997, 14:47
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mantis say: nemesis Blood...<< That's it! Forget _Fifth_Head_. The connection is between _Castleview_ and _Long_Sun_! Pike fathers the Manteon's own Mordred with his sybyl/"siste…
03 Jul 1997, 19:02
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I'd just like to bring up two aspects of the talus scene that made it seem relevant to me... hmmm... maybe three... (1) It was good pacing. A little bit of calm after so much high…
24 Jun 1997, 12:17
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mantis: questions (about men and women) regarding your generalizations (about women). So we'll just drop it.<< I didn't respond to the specific list of women for two reasons: …
21 Jun 1997, 17:45
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mantis say: kind of limited repertoire: the Stand-In for Divine Love, the Sex Object, and Agent of Destruction." Since I don't want to put words in your screen, please expand a l…
19 Jun 1997, 17:23
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Gosh, I come back from a week in the hinterlands, and look at all the excitement! A belated welcome to Rostrum, who seems to have been stirring things up. There's so much to respon…
16 Jun 1997, 14:58
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I finally read the transcript of the People Interview. The comment that jumped out to me was Wolfe's clarification that Horn AND Nettle were the narrators of _Long_Sun_. Okay, th…
04 Jun 1997, 12:57
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mantis say: said (words to this effect), "How neat--a game where everybody tries to figure out who his own mother is." <g> Literally, LOL. What if all the player characters turn…
30 May 1997, 14:30
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So I was looking at the web page for the New Sun GURPS game, and am very curious as to how it's going. I admit that my first reaction was horror that anyone would even make the att…
28 May 1997, 14:18
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Like an idiot, I missed the People interview. I was sitting on the couch when it was going on thinking "A whole evening to myself... what should I do with it? Maybe there's somethi…
22 May 1997, 14:02
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Okay, consensus seems to be... Tzadkeil as eclipse-maker. Makes plenty sense to me, and I appreciate the more astronomy-savvy amongst us filling me in on the whole you-can-see-sta…
20 May 1997, 14:36
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Well, I'm very impressed. I think we've done a great job in coming up with a good spread of questions. We've got little nit-picky technical inquiries, and broad thematic questions …
20 May 1997, 14:12
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alga, Thanks for the pointer towards Peter Carey. I haven't read him, but there's a copy of Tristan Smith just sitting on the library shelf, waiting for me. BTW, I very much enjo…
18 May 1997, 20:36
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mantis say: the next list of questions, in order of questions received after alga? With preference given to those who haven't asked a question yet? (Andplenty of time for peer pre…
18 May 1997, 19:30
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Okay, here's my question. Thanks for the input. I'm immensly curious about the Pas-Typhon head thing, but I think this is probably the question that will shed the most light on the…
16 May 1997, 14:38
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mantis say: Yes, I do, and didn't mean to misquote you. I was just having trouble with my editor, so I couldn't quote you directly. But now that I'm thinking of it, here's a quest…
16 May 1997, 14:10
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mantis, you say that I should have said "the earliest days of the White Fountain" instead of "the earliest days of man's habitation of Urth." That was just me trying to cram extra…
15 May 1997, 14:20
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Geez, an opportunity to get answers from the horses mouth... (or rather, the wolf's mouth, which is a more satisfying image) Am I up to the task? Should I ask a question at all? It…
14 May 1997, 15:51
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Just finished a second reading of _Urth_of_the_New_Sun_. I feel like I slept-walked through it the first time. Especially those last two chapters. I guess you know you're starting …
14 May 1997, 15:44
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vizcacha, I don't recall if anyone other than Silk actually makes any divinations during sacrifice, but I also don't recall anything to give the impression that Silk had noteworth…
13 May 1997, 13:12
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Thanks for the great and thorough answers in response to my Pas/Typhon questions. Now that the connection between the two series has been nailed down, I have a slightly stickier qu…
09 May 1997, 14:08
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Here's another a idea that I'm throwing out to you without bothering to check the text (I really need to buy copies of the books if I'm going to keep this up, huh?): there's been s…
09 May 1997, 14:00
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Re: Joshua A. Solomon's question on recent the S&SF Wolfe story... It's "The Man in the Pepper Mill" in the Oct/Nov issue of last year. I don't recall a refernce to God's fingers, …
09 May 1997, 13:54
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Just a couple of quick comments... Wolfe begins _The_Urth_of_the_New_Sun_ with the quote: Awake! for morning in the bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight…
07 May 1997, 14:52
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This is my first posting here, and boy, do I hope I don't say anything stupid. I've been a Gene Wolfe fan for a few years, more or less in a vacuum. Now I find other people who not…
07 May 1997, 13:15
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