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For those who have the kindle edition of Lexicon Urthus second edition, Michael informs me that he has made 42 revisions (which future physical copies will have). The update is av…
23 Nov 2014, 17:54
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Well, here's part two of my youtube series ... almost did it in one take but I flubbed food and drug administration and predendritic pretty badly. It wound up being too long to cov…
20 Nov 2014, 05:18
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I realized that I had been using youtube only for exercise videos and physical feats for years (mostly under a different channel titled "felicibusbrevis") when I could actually be …
11 Nov 2014, 11:59
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50 is a lot ... when I count the Thag stories as four, my list came to 36 ... so I guess I could throw 14 more in, but gee ...…
16 Oct 2014, 17:18
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Here is an interview with Gene that makes fun of symbol hunters and people being identified as Richard Nixon or whatnot in his novels (here's looking at you, navigator as JFK borsk…
02 Oct 2014, 18:51
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If it has any meaning, I think it might be a more traditional cipher, but I don't have the patience. Coordinates make little narrative sense (the whorl never went much of anywhere…
02 Oct 2014, 00:37
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I remember reading wright's work years and years ago and being left with the idea that his thesis was just wrong ... And in looking at it again I was more sympathetic until the end…
22 Sep 2014, 19:36
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I just passed over a truly old discussion which never got much attention, but interests me for several reasons. I think my response to Don's post was good, but it never received a…
20 Sep 2014, 19:58
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COMMENTARY: The opening quote sets the ironic nature of the entire Judeo-Christian scheme of salvation — expecting a secular power to redeem the Jews in this world, the Christ who…
16 Sep 2014, 02:50
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*THE EYEFLASH MIRACLES* “The Eyeflash Miracles” first appeared in *Future Power* in 1976 and is reprinted in *The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories. *Much…
16 Sep 2014, 02:49
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Almost done with my "Eyeflash Miracles" write up and there is one thing that keeps bugging me about the story - the juxtaposition of the stories of Krishna and Christ in Little Tib…
15 Sep 2014, 17:01
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THE ANSWERS OF THE EXPLAINER: Even on a first reading the final answer of the Explainer is poignant and powerful, embodying the uncertainty anyone who has spent their entire life …
14 Sep 2014, 18:11
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*FORLESEN* “Forlesen” first appeared in *Orbit 14* in 1974 and is reprinted in *Castle of Days*. SUMMARY: Emanuel Forlesen awakens knowing nothing but his name, not even what hu…
14 Sep 2014, 18:10
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For those of you who don't read through the long short story write ups I do, thought I would throw this out there. When Forlesen wakes up, he sees a man with a gold tooth and a mo…
12 Sep 2014, 20:52
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I do feel that Forlesen is a simulation in an attempt of either aliens or angels to understand human life and why it adopted this puzzling business model. It takes a preset scenar…
11 Sep 2014, 03:04
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forlorn…
11 Sep 2014, 01:41
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SEVEN AMERICAN NIGHTS “Seven American Nights” first appeared in *Orbit 20* in 1978 and is collected in *The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories.* OBJECTIVE…
10 Sep 2014, 06:37
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Tallman's work on seven American nights is almost correct. America has a plot to be great again involving the grain merchant gollem gassem but it involves air bound spores. Nadan…
09 Sep 2014, 15:54
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There is a point well before the replacement point posited by David Tallman extant on the Wolfe Wiki where the club footed American Actor playing Kreton quotes some lines about a p…
08 Sep 2014, 02:58
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I am thinking it is 1/6 every day. Second day 1/5 times chance it is still there 5/6 ... 1/6…
07 Sep 2014, 12:39
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I had a quick question but trying to articulate it to look it up independently is hard. Is there a statistically most probable day for Nadan to eat the special one of the six eggs…
07 Sep 2014, 12:34
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A real quick note: it is thematically important that Alvard is dying of cancer when he is frozen - cancer is a kind of unlimited cell growth where a cell line does not stop replica…
06 Sep 2014, 13:46
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I have always felt the statement Wolfe made in the Jordan interview about urth being a previous cycle was simply to escape a Catch 22 concerning God breaking the covenant of the fl…
06 Sep 2014, 04:34
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*THE DOCTOR OF DEATH ISLAND* “The Doctor of Death Island” first appeared in *Immortal* in 1978 and is reprinted in *The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories.…
04 Sep 2014, 18:01
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JOHN J. JONS, JR (April 15, 1942 — 1998) Jons is stricken with diarrhea in New York City and, still looking for a restroom twenty minutes later, is mugged. He wrote “A Guide to th…
28 Aug 2014, 15:03
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*Bibliomen* is a light-hearted collection of twenty-two character sketches of people associated with books in one way or another. Seaman (based on Neil Gaiman) and Captain Roy C. M…
28 Aug 2014, 15:02
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“The Cat” first appeared in the 1983 World Fantasy Convention program book and is reprinted in *Endangered Species*. SUMMARY: In the fifth year of Severian’s reign, Odilo, who en…
26 Aug 2014, 17:45
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Redwood Coast Roamer/Four Wolves All of these stories were written on a trip Wolfe took via Amtrak to Seattle, written in the observation car. They appeared in several different p…
26 Aug 2014, 02:03
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Wow I couldn't believe how much it seemed that Wolfe was having Severian question Eata so specifically in Urth of the New Sun about his past to the point where The Map couldn't hav…
25 Aug 2014, 03:19
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“The Map” first appeared in 1984 in Light Years and Dark and is collected in *Endangered Species*. SUMMARY: Set after Severian has abolished the torturer’s guild (which was implie…
25 Aug 2014, 03:09
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“Cherry Jubilee” appeared in *Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine* in 1982 and is reprinted in* Storeys from the Old Hotel.* SUMMARY: On Captain Bogdanoff’s *Red Star*, the fa…
23 Aug 2014, 18:29
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A Solar Labyrinth “A Solar Labyrinth” first appeared in *The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction* in 1983 and is reprinted in *Storeys from the Old Hotel.* SUMMARY: Mr. Smit…
22 Aug 2014, 14:32
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Going to finish up a write up on Cherry Jubilee in a few days, and of course I find that the majority of commentary on the story is by Borski. His technique for finding allusions a…
21 Aug 2014, 15:58
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“In Looking-Glass Castle” first appeared in 1980 in *TriQuarterly* and is reprinted in *Storeys from the Old Hotel. * SUMMARY: In a female dominated United States, men, considered…
21 Aug 2014, 14:48
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doing some research for my "Solar Labyrinth: write up and was quite pleased to rediscover that the killing of the astral bull of the sun was every bit as important to the syncretic…
20 Aug 2014, 06:45
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The Boy Who Hooked the Sun “The Boy Who Hooked the Sun” appeared as a chapbook in 1985 and is reprinted in *Starwater Stains.* SUMMARY: On the eighth day, a boy from Atlantis cas…
19 Aug 2014, 20:50
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We all know how sev's dream of the little boy with a sword fighting the wooden man with a cudgel parallels what happens in the story, including flooding and the breaking of terminu…
19 Aug 2014, 13:14
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"At the Point of Capricorn" first appeared as a chapbook in 1983. SUMMARY: Visitors from all ages and places come to an icy cave at the end of the world, where an old woman entert…
19 Aug 2014, 02:42
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The story for Date Due appeared in the introduction to *Gene Wolfe’s Book of Days* in 1981 and “The Death of the Island Doctor” first appeared in *The Wolfe Archipelago* in 1983, c…
17 Aug 2014, 17:05
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One more note about The Green Rabbit from S'Rian: the name of the first mate, Oueni, through the welsh Owen, is related to Eugene and might be a play on Genie, though, except for …
17 Aug 2014, 12:29
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“The Green Rabbit from S'Rian” appeared in the shared world anthology *Liavek* in 1985, and the sequel “The Choice of the Black Goddess” appeared in its sequel *Liavek: The Players…
17 Aug 2014, 07:07
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Procreation Procreation first appeared in its entirety in 1985 in The Fourth Omni Book of Science Fiction and is recollected in *Endangered Species*. SUMMARY: Section I: Creatio…
15 Aug 2014, 10:38
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Checking Out “Checking Out” first appeared in 1986 in *Afterlives* and is collected in *Storeys from the Old Hotel.* SUMMARY: A nameless protagonist is awoken by the slam of a do…
14 Aug 2014, 14:33
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“Love Among the Corridor” first appeared in *Interzone* in 1984. It is collected in *Storeys from the Old Hotel*. SUMMARY: A female embodiment of love walks through a palace of sta…
13 Aug 2014, 15:08
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Wow, I almost completely misread that one. I started the write up with the idea that both governments were somewhat altruistic, and only as I started writing did I realize the mut…
12 Aug 2014, 21:09
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“The Peace Spy” first appeared in *Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine* in 1986 and is reprinted in *Endangered Species*. SUMMARY: Sonja Aralov invites “Charles C. Percival” i…
12 Aug 2014, 21:07
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The Nebraskan and the Nereid “The Nebraskan and the Nereid” first appeared in *Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine* in 1985. It is collected in *Endangered Species*. SUMMARY:…
12 Aug 2014, 18:06
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Well, on second thought Doyle surely refers to a folktale, though I haven't found it. One folk tale that is almost exactly like cabin on the coast is "twenty years with the good p…
12 Aug 2014, 01:04
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At one point Daniel the faerie king says that twenty years of service is short enough, "like Doyle's wife" and the only Doyle I can think of is Arthur Conan Doyle, who had a weird …
11 Aug 2014, 23:15
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“A Cabin on the Coast” first appeared in *Zu den Sternen* in 1981 and is collected in *Endangered Species*. SUMMARY: In his father's cottage, Tim Ryan Neal plans to elope with Lis…
11 Aug 2014, 21:17
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