Posted from 3 addresses as Kevin J. Maroney, Kevin Maroney
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And can we be sure that the calendar dates from the launch of the _Whorl_? Wombat, a.k.a. Kevin Maroney kmaroney at crossover.com Kitchen Staff Supervisor, New York Review of Scienc…
13 Oct 1999, 11:06
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I'm sure you've said this before, but what's your cite on that? Wombat, a.k.a. Kevin Maroney kmaroney at crossover.com Kitchen Staff Supervisor, New York Review of Science Fiction h…
12 Oct 1999, 17:45
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[I should have read the *entire* letter before responding. Oops.] The theory is that perhaps Blue is Urth and Green is Lune knocked out of its geocentric orbit by the coming of th…
12 Oct 1999, 13:36
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It was my understanding--and it's possible that something has superceded this--that Urth *is* our Earth, so far in the future that languages which haven't even been born are now an…
12 Oct 1999, 13:23
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I don't have much inside knowlege--just a couple of spoilers leaked to me by David. On this matter, I'm just going by what was printed in _Blue_. Wombat, a.k.a. Kevin Maroney kma…
12 Oct 1999, 12:50
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I don't think it's necessary to assume that the Council (as we might as well call them) stole Horn's paper to stop him from publishing more copies of _The Book of Silk_. Paper is a…
12 Oct 1999, 12:18
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I didn't say that. I said Severian shows up, and so does his sister. I don't know what character that latter is. I don't know. Obviously, the mss. are complete; that's Wolfe's cus…
12 Oct 1999, 11:37
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We were talking about _Short Sun_ over the weekend (NYRSF work weekend just finished) and I commented that _On Blue's Waters_ might be Wolfe's best book since _Shadow of the Tortur…
12 Oct 1999, 11:32
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They are unmistakably in the same universe. Parts of _Green_ and _Whorl_ are set in Okay, really, spoiler time Nessus, and really, really big spoiler time Severian …
10 Oct 1999, 16:42
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Dave Hartwell got me one on Wednesday. I won't be able to start reading it until next week--too many comic books to finish. :-)…
17 Sep 1999, 21:25
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SciFan's "Forthcoming Books in Series" page <http://www.scifan.com/series/allforth.asp> says that _Daemonomania_ is due out in September 2000. This seems rather later than I had h…
10 Sep 1999, 12:32
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This character was "Frieda". She was also the owner of Faron, the world's first boneless cat. Wombat, a.k.a. Kevin Maroney kmaroney at crossover.com Kitchen Staff Supervisor, New Yo…
23 Jun 1999, 12:04
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Nothing in the rules says it can't be both.…
15 Jun 1999, 23:03
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I was working in a comics shop for the entirety of the existence of the company which published _Shadow of the Torturer_, and I can assure you that the final issues of the series w…
18 May 1999, 13:55
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<http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/olp/nyrsf/F_author.html>: Feeley, Gregory, The Evidence of Things Not Shown: Family Romance in The Book of the New Sun (pt. 1 of 2), Issue 31, March 19…
12 Apr 1999, 19:53
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That's not predestination. That's a statement about the unchanging and unending love which god has for its creations. The Outsider might not know what Silk will do--though he proba…
12 Apr 1999, 19:39
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Considering the trail of dead bodies Weer leaves behind him, I'm not sure that I *want* to identify with Weer. Wolfe's protagonists are not admirable or likable people, for the mos…
12 Apr 1999, 19:36
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Context? Source? Thanks. I am not telling stories out of school to say that Hartwell is very enthusiastic about putting together a new collection of Wolfe stories--it's been over …
16 Mar 1999, 20:01
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Wolfe has explicitly stated that the Alzabo was the replacement for the hyena because it was an animal that laughed. I don't remember if this was in _Castle of the Otter_ or in som…
26 Feb 1999, 19:14
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This should be moved over to Whorl probably... In _The Book of the New Sun_, Severian's meeting with Typhon deliberately echos Christ's temptation in the desert (from Luke and Mat…
25 Feb 1999, 12:03
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Telling us that Pas was Typhon tells us a great deal about exactly what kind of man created the Whorl and Mainframe. We don't get a lot of insight into Pas's mentality throughout _…
25 Feb 1999, 10:54
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It's a Romanized version of the Arabic word for "hyena", if I'm not mistaken. The Alzabo was introduced as a replacement for the hyena because, like the hyena, it laughs. (Remembe…
24 Feb 1999, 14:51
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Pas is depicted as two-headed throughout _Long Sun_--I believe that the description of the mural in the auditorium in the brothel in _Nightside_ mentions his two heads (and two pen…
16 Feb 1999, 11:35
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The link is explicit, but like so many things in Wolfe's works, is mentioned only once, and you have to make the connection yourself. Somewhere in _Lake of the Long Sun_, one of …
16 Feb 1999, 10:28
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Coover is an amazing genius; _The Public Burning_ is one of the Great American Novels. _Visit to a Small Planet_. Incidentally, while doing some background research for a piece…
27 Jan 1999, 10:52
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Here are a few Wolfe FAQs which have nothing to do with BotNS and one which does but isn't *about* BotNS: "What's up with Dennis Weer?" "Which egg contained the hallucinogen?" "W…
26 Jan 1999, 11:19
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The Daily Telegraph reports today that a second 1856 British Guiana 1-penny stamp has been discovered. <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000647321007942&rtmo=3uSxxYqM&atmo=KKKKKK…
21 Jan 1999, 13:41
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I don't understand Lamarck well; as Gould points out, what is taught in schools as Lamark is actually a cruel caricature, much closer to Lysenko. But I think that what appealed to …
21 Jan 1999, 12:18
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Isn't it in my .sig? Wombat, a.k.a. Kevin Maroney kmaroney at crossover.com Kitchen Staff Supervisor, New York Review of Science Fiction http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/olp/nyrsf/nyrsf.h…
15 Jan 1999, 13:33
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"Seven American Nights" hands-down. "Detective of Dreams" is a Christian story, but "Seven American Nights" actually has an Easter procession in it. Wombat, a.k.a. Kevin Maroney …
12 Jan 1999, 11:29
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... I have the feeling--based on only one reading of the novel; Wolfe's contemporary fantasy novels don't inspire me to re-read them---that "Mr. Green" is not his name. If I recal…
04 Jan 1999, 11:42
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I believe that I am not telling tales out of school to mention that David Hartwell was definitely reviewing the ms when I was at his house on Dec 5. He had not formally accepted th…
20 Dec 1998, 13:43
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Alternately, doesn't Severian state that occasionally prisoners die of natural causes while awaiting their sentences? Wombat, a.k.a. Kevin Maroney kmaroney at crossover.com Kitchen S…
17 Dec 1998, 14:20
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What was not clear from Mantis's list is that the fiction in _Plan[e]t Engineering_ was completely reprinted in either _Endangered Species_ or _Storeys from the Old Hotel_. The W…
17 Dec 1998, 14:18
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I believe that most of the Cheap Street material has been made available in less expensive forms: _Bibliomen_ is available in a new edition from Broken Mirrors Press; _Empires …
17 Dec 1998, 14:07
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It's minor, but it does contain several early Wolfe stories which have never been printed elsewhere, including the wonderfully titled "Volksweapon". I certainly have never regrette…
14 Dec 1998, 15:59
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I seem to recall someone mentioning that one of Wolfe's contemporary novels includes, among other things, an elaborate and almost completely invisible analogy/allegory of the War o…
14 Dec 1998, 15:57
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I noticed it and assumed that it was a copyediting mistake until I got to the end! I don't know what that says about me. Wombat, a.k.a. Kevin Maroney kmaroney at crossover.com Kitchen…
13 Dec 1998, 14:50
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Actually, that's a good point--even if Wolfe didn't mean the connection to be there, it's a nifty one anyway. I would still like to know whether "it is finished" really is a good…
03 Dec 1998, 12:50
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Actually, my point was quite different from that. I have the feeling that, in Latin, "Terminus" does *not* have the connotation of "finished" any more than does the English phrase …
03 Dec 1998, 11:15
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I'll check him out. The review doesn't give me much sense of his position or his criticism of Crossan, but I certainly need to read some other authors. Crossan fits my own prejudic…
03 Dec 1998, 11:06
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Upon examining the archives (which I knew I should have done before posting), I find that in fact Rostrum mentioned the scene in Acts of the Apostles about a year ago, *in a post d…
02 Dec 1998, 20:28
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Capernum and Sepphoris were two fairly large newly-buily, heavily Hellinized towns within walking distance of Nazareth. Neither is mentioned at all in the Gospels or in Acts, from …
02 Dec 1998, 20:21
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John 19:30 cum ergo accepisset Iesus acetum dixit consummatum est et ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ inclinato capite tradidit spiritum ("And w…
29 Nov 1998, 11:52
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I wouldn't bet on that. Given Wolfe's habit of writing the entire series (in draft) before submitting the manuscript for the first volume--which he did with both _New Sun_ and _Lon…
24 Nov 1998, 13:07
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Probably. I did want to make one other point of moderately general interest, which is that Steve Jackson has developed "GURPS Lite", a boiled-down version of GURPS in 24 pages, des…
20 Nov 1998, 14:07
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Drifting a bit off-topic, here, but.... The English version of the second edition of _Tales of the Arabian Nights_ is, unfortunately, in limbo right now. A German edition should b…
20 Nov 1998, 11:23
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Anyone who directly contributed to the piece and is not a regular recipient of the magazine should contact me (off-list) for a contributor's copy. Anyone else who is interested sho…
20 Nov 1998, 10:17
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Actually, at this point, it would probably be cheaper to buy _Gurps: Basic Set_ than _Melee_ and _Wizard_.... I'm sorry to hear that _GURPS: New Sun_ got pocket-vetoed by SJGames.…
19 Nov 1998, 19:49
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Michael, that's not out, is it? The article introducing _Gurps New Sun_ in _Pyramid_ several years ago was very good, and I really look forward to the finished version. Wombat,…
19 Nov 1998, 18:11
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