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Ultan’s Library An Online Journal for Gene Wolfe Studies Volume 1 - Summer 2000 I am pleased to announce the online publication of Ultan’s Library, a new journal devoted to essay…
06 Jun 2000, 10:00
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Ultan’s Library An Online Journal for Gene Wolfe Studies Volume 1 - Summer 2000 I am pleased to announce the online publication of Ultan’s Library, a new journal devoted to essay…
06 Jun 2000, 10:00
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Hi folks, [waits for tumbleweed to drift by] You'e all gone quiet so I'll ask a daft question. One of the articles in the recent NYRSF Gene Wolfe special, Paul Witcover's essay…
18 May 2000, 17:58
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CALL FOR PAPERS - UK conference on GENE WOLFE Saturday 26th August 2000, University of Birmingham, UK Papers of 20-30 minutes in length are invited for a proposed one day sympo…
12 May 2000, 15:06
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CALL FOR PAPERS - UK conference on GENE WOLFE Saturday 26th August 2000, University of Birmingham, UK Papers of 20-30 minutes in length are invited for a proposed one day sympo…
12 May 2000, 15:06
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Just to add to the confusion usually felt by Wofle's readers, why don't we have a look at the *other* Gene Wolfe.... http://www.ci.walnut-creek.ca.us/gene_wolfe.html Jonathan …
10 May 2000, 12:39
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Hi folks, just a note to apologise for the weekend's confusion regarding Ultan's Library. The plan is to set-up a scholarly journal dedicated to studies of the work of GW, and…
08 May 2000, 09:25
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Hi folks, just a note to apologise for the weekend's confusion regarding Ultan's Library. The plan is to set-up a scholarly journal dedicated to studies of the work of GW, and…
08 May 2000, 09:25
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Found on Advanced Book Exchange: Walt Disney; adapted by Stan Walsh and Gene Wolfe Donald Duck and Chip 'n' Dale [Jenny Wren Books] Juvenile Productions, undated Very good condit…
05 Apr 2000, 17:08
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Living in dear old blighty I'd second the suggestion of Liverpool, but I think its unlikely. There are several US libraries which hold major SF deposits but I don't have the lis…
25 Jan 2000, 09:22
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William H. Ansley wrote I think you're correct to point this out - I failed to suggest in my original post that there is an ambivalence about this final scene: it *could* be the…
18 Jan 2000, 09:47
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Oh joyous day! Today is the day bookshop.co.uk supplied me with a copy of 'Strange Travelers'. What fun! And to think, there'll soon be another Wolfe tome out. Three books in the…
12 Jan 2000, 15:53
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Jeremy also wrote: "So what F. challenges is not the author as individual who writes, but author as unified idea. We should be looking at the system of dispersion of discourse, it…
17 Dec 1999, 12:09
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Jeremy wrote: "While I'm looking at Jim, I have to disagree with this wretched label"postmodernity" again and always, I think certainly Fouc. would have aproblem with that label, …
17 Dec 1999, 11:28
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I agree too, but would add that it makes sense only within a community ofreaders that has decided on some criteria for 'good' and 'bad'. Crowley's _Little, Big_ is almost certain…
16 Dec 1999, 14:11
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More boring stuff on literary theory I'm afraid folks. If we go on much longer we'll take it to email. Sorry in advance! I dunno. I always found that unless I was doing linguisti…
16 Dec 1999, 10:20
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Hello folks, just dropped in with some semi-random thoughts inspired by Jim and Jeremy's recent discussion of readerly/writerly text and that whole lit crit theory thing. One t…
13 Dec 1999, 10:30
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Have to agree with Alex's epistemological/ontological theory. Indeed its the one that McHale puts forward in _Postmodernist Fiction_. The usual way I try to explain it to studen…
29 Oct 1999, 09:25
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Hello folks, I've been away for a little while - work is hell - the thesis drags ever closer to completion, but this morning I took twenty minutes to skim through the latest Urt…
27 Oct 1999, 09:19
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Hello folks, I'm only barely keeping up with Urth at the moment - welcome to all the new posters. I'm very pleased to see that all discussion of Short Sun is being kept on the W…
04 Oct 1999, 11:36
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Just noticed that the Summer 1999 issue of Extrapolation (40:2) contains a piece by John Gerlach entitled 'The rhetoric of an impossible object: gods, chems, and science fantas…
16 Sep 1999, 16:09
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Just noticed that the Summer 1999 issue of Extrapolation (40:2) contains a piece by John Gerlach entitled 'The rhetoric of an impossible object: gods, chems, and science fantas…
16 Sep 1999, 16:09
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Okay, I'm game. Since we're all going to get short sun at different times, especially those of us outside the USA, lets keep all Short Sun discussion in Whorl. It seems like the …
13 Sep 1999, 10:25
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Okay, I'm game. Since we're all going to get short sun at different times, especially those of us outside the USA, lets keep all Short Sun discussion in Whorl. It seems like the …
13 Sep 1999, 10:25
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'The Iron Giant' is of course based on former UK poet laureate Ted Hughes' superb children's book 'The Iron Man'. No idea why they changed the title, except maybe because of that…
17 Aug 1999, 11:50
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'With its references to DeSade, Plato and Jack the Ripper, this is a fully realized culture, utterly strange and utterly believeable, as might be expected from the author of 'Th…
22 Jul 1999, 11:43
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Thanks to Roy and Tony I now have a txt version of volume 26, and a way to get the next digests to work. Emergency over - resume what you were doing.... Jonathan…
13 Jul 1999, 11:34
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Hello folks, I've grown used to thinking that I'm quite computer literate. Apparently not. I like to download and format the Urth and Whorl digests using a Word processor so th…
12 Jul 1999, 13:46
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Okay folks, I'm making a brief return to posting to tell you about this. Was scanning thru a small UK newsgroup on SF and noticed a discussion of Jack Vance referring to a new …
06 Jul 1999, 12:41
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Ah Nigel, as I'm off to join the Ascians on Sunday and will not be on Urth again until June, I thought I'd offer a revision of my last comments to you. Don't worry - I haven't …
07 May 1999, 12:39
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Just to let you know that the unpublished short fiction web page has had a rushed update today. It now features titles for short fiction prior to 1990, and Robert's list of this …
04 May 1999, 16:35
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Well thank god we don't have to meet on the sanguinary field Roy!! And apologies for taking Robert B's name in 'vein' - I am not Quetzal. That should be 'vane'..... Just a quick…
30 Apr 1999, 14:39
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Well, what a pickle I've obviously got myself in.... First - let me apologise for portions of my second post of yesterday, written in reply to my good friend Nigel. Our discussio…
30 Apr 1999, 10:49
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Nigel. Haven't time to give your comments the thought they deserve just yet, but I do need to clarify my own (and I know I'm right, so there!) My post was an attempt at a general…
29 Apr 1999, 16:36
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The recent discussion about the presence of Christianity in BotNS has been very interesting. I think it is correct to draw on textual evidence over and above evidence from Wolfe …
29 Apr 1999, 11:54
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Can we make this clear : who is who... The Hieros are the long-gone final evolutionary stage of a cognate of humanity. The hierogrammates are their creations The hierodules are t…
23 Apr 1999, 15:07
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Actually I'm just pleased that a UK publisher is reprinting Wolfe. Apart from the Book of the Long Sun most of Wolfe's works are out of print here. I think Castleview is still av…
19 Apr 1999, 14:58
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Re: Severian as father of his own mother. I'm in agreement with the suggestion that Dorcas is pregnant. but where is the evidence in the text to suggest that this is in fact Kat…
13 Apr 1999, 14:27
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While I admit some of the symbolism suggests that Sev is some kind of everyman, its also worth remembering that he is always quite assertive of his own identity. Just came across t…
13 Apr 1999, 08:23
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Well thanks to a slow day at the office and some help from various list members I have now added a list of uncollected short fiction since 1990. If you spot anything I've missed …
12 Apr 1999, 14:49
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Well thanks to a slow day at the office and some help from various list members I have now added a list of uncollected short fiction since 1990. If you spot anything I've missed …
12 Apr 1999, 14:49
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Well thanks to Mantis and Craig Christensen I have managed to put together a short list of uncollected story titles - not on the website yet. Thanks to the internet speculative f…
09 Apr 1999, 11:59
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Well thanks to Mantis and Craig Christensen I have managed to put together a short list of uncollected story titles - not on the website yet. Thanks to the internet speculative f…
09 Apr 1999, 11:59
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A correction folks... In my post about the Ultan's Library Website and bibliography I asked for help in producing a list of Wolfe's unpublished short fiction. I meant, of course…
09 Apr 1999, 08:44
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A correction folks... In my post about the Ultan's Library Website and bibliography I asked for help in producing a list of Wolfe's unpublished short fiction. I meant, of course…
09 Apr 1999, 08:44
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Hello folks, Just delurking again for a minute. I've been meaning to tell you about this for some time, and ask for your help. I've recently set up my own webpage (to alleviate…
08 Apr 1999, 13:02
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Hello folks, Just delurking again for a minute. I've been meaning to tell you about this for some time, and ask for your help. I've recently set up my own webpage (to alleviate…
08 Apr 1999, 13:02
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Just to add to the last message about the Gene Wolfe issue of Nova Express. If you're in the UK, as I am, you can order copies from BBR distribution, price two pounds ninety-five…
15 Mar 1999, 09:20
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I sure hope Patri10629 reads some Gene Wolfe soon! Eh Patrick? ******************************************************** Jonathan Laidlow Modern Languages Office - Muirhead Tower…
22 Feb 1999, 14:32
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Stephen Witkoswksi inspired to begin rereading Long Sun again, and I'd be grateful for your input folks: Nightside chapter 1 - two things I noticed: 1. the word 'clockwork' is u…
11 Dec 1998, 12:28
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