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Tried to send this message a few times but it hasn't gone through. Still looking up references in Peace, at one point Lois Arbuthnot says that Weer's sword is not like Jurgen's. (i…
24 Dec 2013, 17:29
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also, it occurred to me that there are two points where five years can easily "swing" in Peace - at the opening of the book when he first goes to Van Ness, his age is 45 or less, k…
21 Dec 2013, 16:24
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One of the biggest problems with making the story of the dog boy fit with the majority of Peace is of course the age of the child Doris, the carnival stepdaughter?- she is old enou…
21 Dec 2013, 16:09
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http://www.siriusfiction.com/peacetimeline.html That is a timeline for Peace roy lackey and Michael Andre driussi put together. I have a slight five year shift to throw around: T…
21 Dec 2013, 01:27
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Lately I have made it my habit to read the majority of referenced texts in a Wolfe novel if I wasn't already familiar with them. The green fairy book by Lang Weer gets for christm…
19 Dec 2013, 23:51
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The Dark of the June, The Death of Hyle, From the Notebook of Dr. Stein, Thag This series of interlinked stories appeared in 1974 and 1975 in Continuum 1-3 and 5. It is at this poi…
12 Nov 2013, 03:20
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Examining Wolfe's work as a whole has often made me wonder exactly why he seems so in love with the transformative presence of trees - you are aware of my cannibal reversed euchari…
10 Nov 2013, 14:42
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The Death of Dr. Island The Death of Dr. Island first appeared in 1973 in Universe. We are all familiar with the inception of this story: when Wolfe’s bid at a Nebula failed and A…
09 Nov 2013, 17:34
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Brian wrote: So what was the ring of glass that Horn, Seawrack, and Babbie found on the Brian, have you ever read my Tree, Corn, Silk, Horn, and the Whorl Word Riddle of the Short…
10 Oct 2013, 00:15
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If anybody read my story, "Soldier of Mercy" I just wanted to clarify that the Chihuahua is black with very little tan, like a min pin. On second thought it isn't fair that descri…
14 Sep 2013, 11:31
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Cues was first published in 1974 in The Far Side of Time. Summary: A young (but not really so young) man is in conversation with what appears, to him, a bowling ball from Deneb (or…
08 Sep 2013, 13:54
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I do think there is something slightly more atavistic and tutelary about Catholicism than many other Christian denominations, and that this sensitivity to representation and symbol…
04 Sep 2013, 16:00
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If anybody ever gets around to reading the Wolfe tribute anthology with my story, the last line in my story seems chopped up (at least in the kindle edition I just looked at). I as…
28 Aug 2013, 02:47
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"By now everyone know I actually think Wolfe creates symbols and "metaphors" that are actually extremely literal. Thus, Shadow Children riding Marshmen is the same as Shadow Childr…
24 Aug 2013, 15:52
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By now everyone know I actually think Wolfe creates symbols and "metaphors" that are actually extremely literal. Thus, Shadow Children riding Marshmen is the same as Shadow Childre…
24 Aug 2013, 15:45
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“How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion” appeared in Analog in 1973 and is reprinted in Castle of Days on page 79. SUMMARY: In a letter composed o…
23 Aug 2013, 20:20
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I came across this little new/long/short sun discussion thread - the first post starts off linking to my old Short Sun paper (I wrote that a LONG time ago when I was a much younger…
23 Aug 2013, 04:55
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Brian said "Mostly about things that I think are not working. 1) that whole "suicide club" thing---did it come out of nowhere in a confusing way, or was it properly (or even with…
20 Aug 2013, 00:53
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After so much research the past year to do these little short story write ups, there are a few things that struck me that I really think needed to be examined overtly - Wolfe's eng…
19 Aug 2013, 03:10
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“La Befana” first appeared in Galaxy in 1973. It is reprinted in The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories on page 55. SUMMARY: On an alien planet, expatriate …
15 Aug 2013, 18:10
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“Westwind” appeared in Worlds of If in 1973. It is collected in Storeys From the Old Hotel on page 86. SUMMARY: The story begins with an image of the ruler on the wall of a dirty i…
14 Aug 2013, 17:37
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Peritonitis originally appeared in Tomorrow’s Alternatives in 1973. It is collected in Endangered Species on page 279. In this rather straightforward allegory, secondary narrator G…
13 Aug 2013, 20:06
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The Devil in A Forest Published in 1976, only a few years after the inordinately confounding and unclear “The Fifth Head of Cerberus”, The Devil in a Forest seems completely straig…
21 Jun 2013, 23:00
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Jonathan Laidlow and Nigel Price of Ultan's Library have been conducting a few interviews with the authors involved in the Gene Wolfe tribute anthology, and the first two interview…
11 Jun 2013, 16:38
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Just wanted to share a quick note about the Nebula Awards for everybody - it went very well, though it was not quite as unforgettable as the March Fuller award dedicated solely to …
20 May 2013, 20:04
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Certainly we have all noticed the chronic leg injuries of many of Wolfe's characters. I honestly don't like putting biographical stuff into interpretation unless it is very clear o…
07 Apr 2013, 15:25
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One more quick thought. Everyone dreams of being surrounded by columns or trees. In Number 5's dreams, eventually these columns are revealed to have words that are rubbed off (the …
07 Apr 2013, 13:59
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I know this has been put on the list before but this is a comment Gene made in an interview. My comments below. LP: "'A Story,' by John V. Marsch." GW: "'A Story,' by John V. Ma…
01 Apr 2013, 15:10
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I was thinking about this little clip at the beginning of 5th Head of Cerberus from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, wondering if the dream in which Number Five and his father are …
26 Mar 2013, 17:32
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The opening quote, about the ivy tod being heavy with snow and the owlet whooping to a wolf below that eats the she wolf's young, has always seemed a bit ambiguous. The opening sc…
26 Mar 2013, 04:41
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I quite forgot to mention that the stagnation prevalent in number five's creation is highly ironic - he is raised in a whore house where sex is a commodity, not an agent of recombi…
24 Mar 2013, 16:51
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Most of the fifth head discussion is way back in the old list, in another century, between Micahel Andre-Driusi and Borski. There is a discussion of the ballistic chart on the back…
24 Mar 2013, 15:26
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Really quickly I realized I forgot to mention that the government of St Croix is a bit bizarre- guys are arresting Marsch who all seem to have a very similary face, and they say th…
24 Mar 2013, 15:06
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PETER WRIGHT AND COLONIAL THEORY: Wright stresses the inability to differentiate between colonizer and colonized in his essay “Confounding the Skin and the Mask: ?Disappointingly…
24 Mar 2013, 05:22
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The Fifth Head of Cerberus I felt odd moving past 1972 without at least some mention of Wolfe’s first successful long volume, The Fifth Head of Cerberus; the titular novella was p…
24 Mar 2013, 05:21
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As many of you know, I was trying to make a chronological effort at analyzing or even just pointing out cool things more or less chronologically in Wolfe's short fiction. The nice …
20 Mar 2013, 12:37
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I was in the enviable position of seeing an advance copy of the upcoming Wolfe Tribute Anthology, Shadows of the New Sun: Stories in Honor of Gene Wolfe, edited by J.E. Mooney and …
02 Mar 2013, 14:05
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Just thought I would throw this out there - Gene will be receiving the grandmaster award in San Jose, California?(probably on May 18th if the awards are distributed on a Saturday) …
06 Feb 2013, 17:44
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HOUR OF TRUST First published in 1973 in Bad Moon Rising, this story is in line with the didactic and social critiques Wolfe was writing in the early 70s, but this has a more diff…
27 Dec 2012, 06:31
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Going to the Beach This was first published in Showcase in 1973, and has not been recollected. SUMMARY: The story begins “Seventeen years ago, Miss Hiteecher his high school teache…
01 Oct 2012, 11:18
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FEATHER TIGERS “Feather Tigers” first appeared in Edge in 173. SUMMARY: Quoquo, an alien psychologist who resembles a small bunny, is cruising over the Mekong delta in a sky-yacht …
09 Sep 2012, 02:11
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Continuing Westward First published in Orbit 12 in 1973, this is reprinted on pg 35 of Storeys from the Old Hotel. Summary: After dynamiting a Turkish power line, a pilot and his o…
29 Aug 2012, 21:40
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Beautyland Beautyland also appeared in Saving Worlds in 1973, the same collection in which “An Article About Hunting” was published. It is in Castle of Days. SUMMARY: Our narrator,…
02 Aug 2012, 21:55
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An Article About Hunting This was first published in 1973?s Saving Worlds — thus its ecological theme. It is reprinted in Castle of Days. SUMMARY: The author of the article is inte…
31 Jul 2012, 21:12
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The Recording This first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1972 and appears on pg 279 of Storeys from the Old Hotel. SUMMARY: the story begins with our nar…
18 Jul 2012, 04:14
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The Headless Man This one is fairly straightforward even metaphorically until the navel scene, where it becomes a bit less whimsical and more profound. It was first published in Un…
17 Jul 2012, 23:05
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Tarzan of the Grapes Tarzan of the Grapes first appeared in “Mother was a Lovely Beast” in 1972. SUMMARY: In a small vineyard, the deputy Prescott and the newspaperman named Brown …
10 Jul 2012, 04:52
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It’s Very Clean This was first published in 1972 in the Generation collection. There isn’t much explication to do on this one but I feel it is an interesting look at the conflictin…
09 Jul 2012, 19:53
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Beech Hill Beech Hill first appeared in 1972 in Infinity Three. It is on pg 22 of Storeys From the Old Hotel. I have included some interpretation in the summary, so this time it is…
04 Jul 2012, 18:10
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Alien Stones (I feel that there is a certain post golden age space opera context to this story that I have very little background in, so I have been reading forward in Wolfe to abo…
03 Jul 2012, 05:05
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