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Eeek! Surely there is a middle ground between run-away exegesis and silence. Either extreme of censorship (on discourse or criticism) seems bad. Hmm.. Dunno. I'd better look…
11 Oct 1998, 15:12
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Robert Borski writes: Umm... Obvious? Isn't there a problem with time here? Ah! So that's how you get around this one. Care to explain why you think the above are true? …
09 Oct 1998, 19:15
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Is there a FAQ? I think we need one for some important plot points such as "Who is Severian's mother?" and "Who is Dorcas?" and "Who is Severian's Father?" A completely unr…
06 Oct 1998, 23:45
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It seems reasonable to me. We see Typhon through Severian's eyes. To the average citizen, Typhon is some nigh-omnipotent figure who is the source of all authority. He evolves int…
04 Oct 1998, 20:25
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When is Wolfe's next book due out? Kieran Mullen…
21 Sep 1998, 20:41
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Peter Grimes <grimes at waste.org> writes: Very well put and very true. It is painful to see Wolfe and Wilson compared. I think FP suffers from poor editing. Eco was too b…
28 Aug 1998, 00:31
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I thought there were at least two reasons: (1) The resonance with the word "world". Wolfe likes wordplay. (2) If you are living on the surface of a cylinder and look down it, …
15 May 1998, 14:03
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I think you are off the mark with the Dorcas allusion. Dorcas was the name of a woman brought back from the dead (by Peter, I think) in the New Testament. (I don't have my RSV he…
14 Aug 1997, 13:24
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Re: Patera Pike's paternity There may also be a tech solution. All one really needs is some DNA. Perhaps she had access to some Short Sun technology that allowed here to con…
03 Jul 1997, 12:34
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He is never really seen as a leader of the people. His image is primarily serpentine, and therefore devilish in this mythology (IMO). I don't think that Moses led the Hebrews thro…
28 Jun 1997, 16:29
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More fuel for the holy wars... This seems to be a limited definition, from an sf point of view. How would you classify the creatures in Lewis's _Out_of_the_Silent_ Planet_ or …
26 Jun 1997, 13:58
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Question for Mr. Wolfe: It's pretty broadly indicated that Silk was gestated from a frozen embroyo as Mucor was. This has some nice symbolic effects ("virgin birth", the her…
16 May 1997, 11:25
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How would you like it cooked? "Cooing" seems more like a reference to the Holy Spirit, in RC tradition. It has sometimes been thought of as the feminine part of the Trinity. …
07 Apr 1997, 01:46
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I had always thought that that "add word" was Tick's way of saying "Bad word" - a euphemism for swearing. Otherwise it would be either "wadd word" (b -> w) or "add erd" (drop…
26 Mar 1997, 10:41
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This doesn't persuade me. Holy Katharine is not the patron of Nessus, only of the torturers. St. Catherine (of the St. Catherine's wheel fame) was martyred (IIRC) on a burning wh…
22 Mar 1997, 21:06
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revjack at radix.net (revjack at radix.net) (and others) replied: I had thought of this, but that's a rather big leap to make. The text right before hand suggests that he makes some…
12 Mar 1997, 12:21
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How did Silk know Hyacinth's name when they first met? (Silk is hiding in her bedroom, guards come in looking for intruder, and Silk plays role of a "client". He tells Hyacinth t…
10 Mar 1997, 18:58
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First, there are at least two Kieran's on this list. I don't want to cause problems for the other one with my incendiary comments below. There seems to be a certain uniform a…
28 Feb 1997, 11:34
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A bit of a red herring, I suspect. My Greek friends tell me that Triskele is a common name for a dog in Greek. (Sort of like "Fido" in English, which actually comes from "faithfu…
22 Jan 1997, 12:33
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Since I don't see much discussion of Gene Wolfe (other than "when will the fourth book in the Long Sun series come out?") I thought I'd start the ball rolling. First, Wolfe is…
23 Jul 1996, 07:23
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