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Has anyone here read the Confluence trilogy by Paul J Mcauley. A friend said if I was into Wolfes Sun books that I should check it out. Anyone on here read it? If so was it good?…
07 Nov 2011, 00:21
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Thats interesting. I dont think I have ever heard that theory proposed before. Do you know of any textual evidence that would support such a conclusion? It would seem to explain…
06 Nov 2011, 20:34
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The interview was titled A Magus of Many Suns and was conducted by Nick Gevers. I found it by googling.…
06 Nov 2011, 03:39
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First off I am not trying to prove anyone wrong or right. I just wanted to say that I remember reading an interview with Wolfe where he is asked if the Neighbors are the Hierodule…
06 Nov 2011, 02:50
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As someone who is rereading Long Sun in search of mysteries and puzzles I would love to hear your theory on Hyacinths nature as well as anything in the text that suggests she is no…
03 Nov 2011, 00:31
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Yeah that makes sense. Right after I posted that I started to wonder if maybe Wolfes original intention with Short Sun was similiar to Urth of New Sun. If thats the case maybe al…
03 Nov 2011, 00:11
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That was my first impression also that Pike was Silk from the future in astral form. Do you really think that Wolfe knew that far ahead what would happen to Horn/Silk in Short Sun…
01 Nov 2011, 23:44
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Started reading Lake of Long Sun last night and Im totally confused about the appearance of Patera Pike and Oreb in Silks room. I know there was some mention of this last week in …
01 Nov 2011, 17:29
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yeah I was wondering about the woman too. Surely most of the visions presented to Silk have connections with events in the book (Silk seeing lights beneath his feet is him seeing …
28 Oct 2011, 17:43
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Just finished reading Nightside the Long Sun. I was really hoping that more than things would stand out on this second reading of the book. I know Im missing something here and w…
27 Oct 2011, 23:29
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Can anyone tell me why Horn is able to get inside and change the stories being told in In Greens Jungles?…
26 Oct 2011, 11:40
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Sorry I should have worded my post a little better. In every instance I use the word Pelerines I should have used Mannea. Therefore maybe Mannea has a connection with the Atrium o…
25 Oct 2011, 03:59
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That makes perfect sense to me. Doesnt Sev search for the Atrium from above in a flyer when Auturch? This fits nicely with The Last House that can only be seen and approached from…
25 Oct 2011, 01:50
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Thats an interesting theory that Catherine may be the woman dug up by Vodalus. If she indeed inhabited the Atrium of Time as some suggest she could have easily have died after her…
24 Oct 2011, 11:46
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I do remember reading something about a Paleamon/Ossipago connection. Something to do with Sev never seeing Ossipagos eyes. I always thought that Ossipago was a robot. His name i…
22 Oct 2011, 00:56
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Did anybody on here ever consider a connection between Inire and Paleamon? Paleamons face is always obscured by his goggles and his name is one of saintly and mythic origins. I w…
22 Oct 2011, 00:27
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Where in Urth does it say that? It was always my understanding that there were many alien beings on Urth and part of Severians unreliability as narrator was his inability to disti…
18 Oct 2011, 15:21
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interesting idea. I also agree with you that Severa is Jolenta.…
17 Oct 2011, 22:40
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Yeah one of the reasons that Ive been reluctant to buy it before now is that it devotes most of its pages to other Wolfe works and I dont want anything spoiled (I have never read …
15 Oct 2011, 18:13
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can anyone tell me what Borskis argument for BotSS in the long and short of it is? I have been unable to get my hands on a copy and since finishing my reread Im desperate to hear…
15 Oct 2011, 12:46
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I think that your theory as the source of all books is interesting. That seems more in line with his role in the other series.…
14 Oct 2011, 21:58
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Does anyone think this telepathic-internet might be connected with Cyriacas story?…
14 Oct 2011, 14:51
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I quite like your idea of a spiral string of universes. Surely there exists shortcuts or else Severians manuscripts would never of ended up in Wolfes hands!…
14 Oct 2011, 14:46
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yeah OK I can see the prospect of Inire going back seeking knowledge from the past. Maybe he wished to learn all he could about humanitys religious beliefs to help him propagate t…
14 Oct 2011, 10:59
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Your right about when the Moffats lived. I had forgotten all about the plane I think your dead on regarding the nature of the Botanic Gardens. Father Inire built them and each ga…
14 Oct 2011, 01:47
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Dont worry about sounding argumentative, this is a discussion group after all. Robert and Marie are most likely the real missionaries Robert and Marie Moffat who went to Africa. …
14 Oct 2011, 00:21
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The jungle guide is definetly Inire. Dorcas husband and Isangoma on the other hand Id have to disagree with you. Isangoma along with Robert and Marie are just people from our tim…
13 Oct 2011, 19:34
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Is the deal explicetly stated in the text? I totally missed that. Earlier in the book Severian talks about Malrubius to Horn. Severian has to know this is the same man visiting h…
12 Oct 2011, 23:20
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As for a collective of beings constituting Supposed Inire sightings I might be able to get behind. Inire being certainly a Hierodule may be able to shed parts of himself into dif…
12 Oct 2011, 22:48
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What jungle guide and old boatman are you referring too? I an think of a few examples of both. Isangoma, as well as the others in the jungle hut are from our time period. Robert…
12 Oct 2011, 22:39
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I think calling it a fetus my be a mistake on Severians part. I think the Mandragora may in fact just be small. It tells Severian it was deformed- maybe in reference to its stunt…
12 Oct 2011, 18:02
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Im pretty sure we see Inire twice in BotNS. The crooked bent man that appears before the Autarch and Severian in the Secret House and the figure Severian sees entering the Autarch…
12 Oct 2011, 17:50
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finished up RttW and I am still confused about a number of things. 1) Why exactly does Scylla want to return to her body buried in Nessus? 2) What was the deal she and Horn made w…
12 Oct 2011, 11:44
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Correction. Meant to say Musk not Blood in my last post.…
12 Oct 2011, 11:07
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Dug out my long sun books last night to reread and found the quote. Echidna has just possessed Maytera Marble and killed Blood. She says in response to Silks question "The Prime C…
12 Oct 2011, 10:56
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As I posted before the Mandragora was likely a proto chem Typhon built to download into. Theres a point in Long Sun where Silk having discovered that the Gods can possess chems an…
12 Oct 2011, 02:59
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During Severians encounter with Typhon he tells Severian "though Ive lived again but a day Ive sent my thoughts to far places. There are those in the sea that would rule us". Typ…
11 Oct 2011, 15:49
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I think the Megatherians were on Urth during Typhons reign. They had to be there previous to the Whorls launch because Scylla knew of them.…
11 Oct 2011, 11:55
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Almost done with my reread of RttW. Haven't read it since I bought the omnibus from the scifi bookclub years ago. I forgot how irritating Pigs dialogue is. Can anyone explain th…
11 Oct 2011, 11:43
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I think Typhons obssession with his face has more to do with maintaining his rule. His face was probably a symbol of his reign in the same way that the Autarchs face adorns the coi…
10 Oct 2011, 23:32
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Wait who was Typhons wife? Was that Echidna? My copies of the Long Sun are packed and Im going off pure memory.…
10 Oct 2011, 20:59
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Yeah Im not too sure about Typhon being a Neighbor either. I just remember reading Borskis idea that he was Windcloud. I am convinced that he is an alien however.…
10 Oct 2011, 19:48
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In dr. Talos play Scylla is mentioned alongside Abaia and Erebus. Knowing that Scylla is part of Typhons family it doesn't seem too farfetched to assume Typhon was originally one o…
10 Oct 2011, 17:45
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Yeah the passage is really ambiguous. Ive just been stuck on the idea that Typhon was an alien since rereading BotNS the second time and learning later of Wolfes naming strategum …
10 Oct 2011, 15:38
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I Believe that was Typhons plan to download into another clone body but something happened which prevented this. The Mandragora we see at the end of Citadel is probably this disc…
10 Oct 2011, 10:53
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when Horn is laying dying in the pit on Blue he remarks that he sees a man with a long nose that looks like a black spider and says that the man touches his forehead with something…
10 Oct 2011, 01:19
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Or maybe that particular body of Typhons was grown from an embryo (Or one of Jonas beans) and then downloaded into it when his original body died? I dont have the book on hand but…
10 Oct 2011, 01:05
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In the Sword of the Lictor Typhon says a few things that seems to indicate an alien origin. He tells Severian that "I was not born, at least not in the way you mean it". Also Ty…
09 Oct 2011, 22:49
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On first read I imagined Typhon as human native of Urth. But Wolfes naming strategum points at Typhon being of alien origin. The theory that Blue/Green is Urth/ Lune has been rep…
09 Oct 2011, 19:54
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So maybe the "beans" in Jonas story are a reference to cells from which the Vanished Gods grew bodies to download into becoming the megatherians in the same way they grew humans on…
09 Oct 2011, 18:47
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