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“The Detective of Dreams” first appeared in *Dark Forces* in 1980. It is recollected in *Endangered Species*. SUMMARY: A man identifying himself as Herr D?enters the narrator’s of…
11 Aug 2014, 02:59
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Well, in my write up I speculated whether Wolfe would be aware of the origin of the Bluebeard story with Conomor the supposed werewolf and st. Gildas, who restores his wife to life…
09 Aug 2014, 03:45
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The Last Day “The Last Day” first appeared in *Speculations* in 1982 and is collected in *Storeys from the Old Hotel*. SUMMARY: The emotional power of the story is found in the c…
08 Aug 2014, 12:30
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“Redbeard” was first published in *Masques* in 1984 and is recollected in *Storeys from the Old Hotel.* SUMMARY: A man moves with his wife Mara and son John to a small Texas comm…
08 Aug 2014, 05:58
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Since most of the technology seems to be wavelength based in The God and His Man, I was wondering if anybody knew anything in light or microwave science that corresponded to that k…
06 Aug 2014, 19:22
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“From the Desk of Gilmer C. Merton” was first published in 1983 in *The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction* and is reprinted in *Storeys from the Old Hotel*. SUMMARY: The …
06 Aug 2014, 18:28
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"The Last Thrilling Wonder Story? was published in *Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine* in 1982 and is republished in *Endangered Species*. SUMMARY: The author Gene Wolfe tel…
06 Aug 2014, 18:27
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The God and His Man “The God and His Man” first appeared in *Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine* in 1980. SUMMARY: “Once long, long ago, when the Universe was old, th…
06 Aug 2014, 18:26
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It's been a long time since I thought about New Sun, but as I am near that point in Wolfe's career where I am going to have to do some of the short fiction related to the books, I …
06 Aug 2014, 00:47
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“Suzanne Delage” was first published in Edges in 1980 and is reprinted in *Endangered Species*. SUMMARY: As the narrator is reading a book, he is struck by the idea ?*that every m…
05 Aug 2014, 17:02
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“The Adopted Father” first appeared in *Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine* in 1980. SUMMARY: In a system where human beings have been replaced with a highly mechanized and …
03 Aug 2014, 16:34
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Even though Borski loves to assert Goethe's Faust is everywhere in Wolfe's fiction, it really is everywhere in Silhouette. But why is it Johann who has a limp in the story when i…
03 Aug 2014, 12:03
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Kevin Malone appeared in *New Terrors* in 1980 and is collected in *Endangered Species*. SUMMARY: After getting married to Marcella in April, the narrator loses his job by June a…
02 Aug 2014, 18:57
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*We will return to the few long novellas I skipped soon from the 70s - I have saved a space in the numbering and am working on completing them. “A Criminal Proceeding” first appea…
01 Aug 2014, 14:07
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Well, I am about 33 percent done with Wolfe's published stories after this next one, "The Doctor of Death Island" ... I plan on skipping two numbers and returning to "The Eyeflash …
31 Jul 2014, 17:36
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Perhaps a year and a half ago I promised I would get to "the doctor of death island" in a few weeks ... And I am finally getting to it, probably starting and hopefully finishing th…
31 Jul 2014, 07:19
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“The Woman Who Loved the Centaur Pholus” first appared in *Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine* in 1979; “The Woman the Unicorn Loved” appeared there in 1981. Both are reprinte…
30 Jul 2014, 23:11
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“War Beneath the Tree” first appeared in *Omni* in 1979. SUMMARY: Robin’s toys, the spaceman, bear, dancing doll, and guardsmen, provide him with more company and guidance than h…
29 Jul 2014, 06:10
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Silhouette *Silhouette* was published in *The New Atlantis* in 1975. It is collected in *Endangered Species*. SUMMARY: The story opens with a quote from Ambrose Bierce's “…
29 Jul 2014, 04:50
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“To the Dark Tower Came” first appeared in Orbit in 1977 and is collected in *Storeys from the Old Hotel.* SUMMARY WITH SUBJECTIVE COMMENTS: Gloucester and Kent, “who would die t…
26 Jul 2014, 01:21
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"Our Neighbor by David Copperfield" was originally published in *Future Tense* in 1978, though according to the wolfe-wiki it was supposed to be included in a Philip Jose Farmer pr…
24 Jul 2014, 14:09
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Many Mansions First published in 1977 in Orbit 19,?Many Mansions? is reprinted in *Castle of Days* for Halloween. SUMMARY: The story begins with an old woman speaking to a young…
24 Jul 2014, 02:11
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The Marvelous Brass Chessplaying Automaton* *I am almost finished with my “Silhouette” write up but still need to finish reading two novels mentioned in the text for research to s…
17 Jul 2014, 16:45
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THREE FINGERS “Three Fingers” was first published in New Constellations in 1976 and is included in T*he Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories.* SUMMARY: …
10 Jun 2014, 03:28
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I just went through that whole huge write up looking for typos, but where did the "g" go in my title? Oh well.…
08 Jun 2014, 18:22
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TRACKING SONG This was published in 1975's* In The Wake of Man* and is included in *The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories.* Before we begin, we might as …
08 Jun 2014, 18:20
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I just sent a rather lengthy write up on Free Live Free with a pretty typical academic thesis .. the second to last major section lists the important differences between the Ziesin…
21 May 2014, 17:56
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I noticed that Wolfe used a voice actuated transcriber in two stories from the 70s with the brand name voisrite, connecting "the blue mouse" and "silhouette", but just noticed that…
13 May 2014, 07:43
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“When I Was Ming the Merciless” is copyright 1975 and appeared in *The Ides of Tomorrow*. It is collected in *Endangered Species.* SUMMARY: The narrator is interrogated after an…
12 May 2014, 18:53
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The Hero as Werwolf “The Hero as Werwolf” appeared in 1975 in The New Improved Sun and is reprinted in *The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories*. SUMMARY: …
09 May 2014, 19:16
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So ... I am trying to articulate my thoughts about Forlesen, a story where the theme is clear but the actual mechanism of Forlesen's life is a bit ... difficult. When Emmanuel For…
05 May 2014, 06:12
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“Straw” first appeared in *Galaxy* (the table of contents of Storeys from the Old Hotel says in 1974, but other evidence indicates it was the January 1975 edition of the magazine).…
01 May 2014, 18:44
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* "Forlesen", number 60 needs a bit more polish but I will finish it. I am skipping ahead temporarily. Also testing this new email - hope it is not spammed. “Civis Laputus Sum…
29 Apr 2014, 18:33
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Gene indicated "A Borrowed Man" has been accepted by Tor and he is working on a probably related something called "The Labyrinth in the Library."…
28 Apr 2014, 05:32
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“Melting” first appeared in 1974 in Orbit 15. Melting? is one of my favorite Gene Wolfe stories on the strength of its marvelous last line: a dismissal of all but the irate ego, po…
24 Apr 2014, 20:41
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The Rubber Bend “The Rubber Bend” first appeared in 1974 in Universe 5 (according to the copyright page on Storeys from the Old Hotel, anyway ? ? ?). This is a sequel to “Slaves o…
23 Apr 2014, 19:42
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Looks like in addition to losing Gabriel Garcia Marquez recently, we have lost sometimes Urth contributor and Nightlands editor Andy Robertson. I was sad to read about it - a littl…
22 Apr 2014, 07:33
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???????????? MISCELLANEOUS SYMBOLS AND SPECULATION “Many of the embedded tales in Peace reflect back on the life of Weer, but there a few points that seem cryptically unsatisfying…
17 Apr 2014, 06:25
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Motifs in Gene Wolfe's Peace: Fairy Tales from the Emerald Isle, Cultural Displacements, and the Resurrection Egg Marc Aramini ????Gene Wolfe’s work has summoned diverse responses,…
17 Apr 2014, 06:22
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Just sent a HUGE Peace write up, but looks like I will have to send it in two parts. Lots of work on that, BUT I still think it needs one more breakthrough relating the carnival to…
17 Apr 2014, 06:21
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PART II: Trees that eat Trees : Corn to grow on And yet it seemed irrational that so vast a quantity of vegetable matter should go to waste. Pas, who built the Whorl, would have …
12 Feb 2014, 15:48
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12 Feb 2014, 15:46
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I am not sure if I have already posted about this quote from the fictional Marvells of Science from Peace: Hell is a country of marshes — and that no two devils are of the same sha…
05 Feb 2014, 16:36
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I am almost done with my Peace write up, and there was one thing that bothered me a bit. While la llorona famously drowns her children, most gaelic banshee myths don't involve a w…
22 Jan 2014, 19:07
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Well, as we all know, Peace references Lang's Green Fairy Book, Ludwig's biography of Napoleon, some of the fictional literature mentioned in Lovecraft like the Cultes des Goules, …
05 Jan 2014, 19:09
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As I was researching what every family name in Peace meant, I came across MacAfee's origin, a rather strange one. Associated with the clan Mac Dubh-Sithhe - the dark one of peace, …
05 Jan 2014, 17:31
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I normally don't share much personal correspondence with Mr. Wolfe here but I was happy to learn in an email today that he has been writing a lot recently and hopes to "soon" have …
05 Jan 2014, 04:44
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Well, now that I consider it, the stag at bay and weer's father taking the dog boy to hunt resonates with the imagery of the deer skin that the women write the treaty for the land …
02 Jan 2014, 04:12
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In addition, the banshees of Ireland normally wear a green dress, and Margeret Lorn wears a green dress at Olivia's wedding when den is reminded of a princess in a tower "like my a…
02 Jan 2014, 04:00
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Many of the embedded tales in Peace reflect back on the life of Weer, but there a few points that I have never been satisfied with. In the story of mr. Tilly's death and Julius sm…
02 Jan 2014, 03:39
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