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Operation ARES It is perhaps telling for several of Wolfe’s 1970s fiction that a socialist/decayed version of America is in place. This seems to beg the question — how did it get …
23 Jun 2012, 12:51
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On Jack Dann's web site is news on a gene Wolfe tribute anthology with stories by Wolfe coming out next spring http://www.jackdann.com/2012/06/island-of-time.html?m=1…
18 Jun 2012, 11:11
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Mathoms from the Time Closet: This was first published in Again, Dangerous Visions in 1972 as a set of three separate tales, so I am tackling all three together. Let’s first talk a…
12 Jun 2012, 05:51
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Three Million Square Miles “Three Million Square Miles” first appeared in The Ruins of Earth in 1971. It is reprinted in Castle of Days under Thanksgiving. SUMMARY: Richard Marquer…
06 Jun 2012, 23:57
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Toy Theater This first appeared in Orbit in 1971. Like many of the stories in “The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories”, there has been a ton of discussion o…
06 Jun 2012, 19:45
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Noticing that similar monetary disbursement methods were at play in several of the SF stories Wolfe had written in the 1970s, I also noticed a very particular technology called the…
31 May 2012, 15:01
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The Blue Mouse This first appeared in The Many Worlds of Science Fiction in 1971. SUMMARY: Lonnie is a tech with the UN forces, which has been separated into Techs and Marksmen, wh…
30 May 2012, 06:15
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Sweet Forest Maid Sweet Forest Maid first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1971. It is collected on page 368 of Endangered Species. Summary: A reclusive …
25 May 2012, 23:39
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Slaves of Silver Slaves of Silver first appeared in Galaxy in 1971. It is a fairly straightforward Sherlock Holmes type story — with some robots and a socialist kind of monetary di…
25 May 2012, 20:48
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I have been reading a lot of short stories from the New Wave to see if they had an impact on Wolfe's writing at all for our little short story project (I won't call it a failure ye…
22 May 2012, 05:11
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Thou Spark of Blood This was first published in If in 1970. SUMMARY: Gibson, Cappio, and Lorenz are ostensibly in flight to Mars from Moonbase, and Gibson awakes to find Cappio dea…
21 May 2012, 21:49
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The HORARS of War The HORARS of War first appeared in Nova in 1970 and is on page 237 of Endangered Species. SUMMARY: Future wars at the enlisted level are fought by the grunt like…
21 May 2012, 20:47
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The Packerhaus Method First published in 1970 in Infinity One, this is a fairly straightforward SF exploration of embalming technology for Wolfe, but there are a few interesting t…
18 May 2012, 02:12
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The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories This was first published in Orbit in 1970. I am sure we have all read it, so my summary will be superficial. I am going to include a “M…
14 May 2012, 20:35
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Sonya, Crane Wessleman, and Kittee This first appeared in Orbit in 1970. It is on pg 96 of Stories from the Old Hotel. SUMMARY: The speaker is telling a story to a “you” that s…
30 Apr 2012, 05:46
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Remembrance to Come This was first published in 1970 in Orbit. I have a feeling it has never been reprinted not necessarily because of its quality or content but because of its “…
27 Apr 2012, 04:39
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Of Relays and Roses This was first published in World of If in 1970, and is the second story in Castle of Days. SUMMARY: Senate hearings are being held because a certain compute…
22 Apr 2012, 19:29
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Morning-Glory This was originally written for a college themed anthology, “Alchemy and Academe” for Anne McCaffrey in 1970. SUMMARY: A college researcher named Smythe, short and…
22 Apr 2012, 04:17
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King Under the Mountain This was first published in If in 1970. SUMMARY: Five thousand feet below the earth’s surface, a supercomputer fifty years in the making is in charge of a…
16 Apr 2012, 00:38
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How the Whip Came Back This was first published in Orbit in 1970. A note about the title: of course some may be less literal minded than me, but I always thought the whip of the …
15 Apr 2012, 01:46
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Eyebem This was first published in Orbit in 1970 SUMMARY: The robotic Eyebem narrates the story of his education and first days on the job as his little black recording box is se…
10 Apr 2012, 22:31
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Car Sinister Car Sinister first appeared in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in January of 1970. INSPIRATION: Well, we actually have an account of Gene’s inspiration f…
08 Apr 2012, 01:39
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A Method Bit in “B” This was published in Orbit in 1970 . SUMMARY: Our narrator recounts his little story with the start: “I suppose it was because I had attended a film just …
07 Apr 2012, 20:41
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Paul’s Treehouse This was first published in 1968 in Orbit. Here is a link. It is also in Castle of Days. http://www.lexal.net/scifi/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/wolfe3/…
07 Apr 2012, 00:23
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Lil Abner, played by Peter Palmer, born 1931, the real age of our narrator, is a notorious oaf, and I thought this was interesting, from World Wide Words. "An oaf is a stupid, boo…
05 Apr 2012, 17:11
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I was thinking about how the Peter Palmieri showed up in 1931 when Maria Palmieri was born, but Pete Palmer was supposedly in the 4th grade in 1944 but not in the picture. So i pu…
05 Apr 2012, 16:45
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The Changeling Finally — we have arrived at Wolfe! Just as “The Tell Tale Heart” or “The Cask of Amontillado” could be considered “typical” Poe, “The Changeling” is the very firs…
05 Apr 2012, 05:26
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I was driving to work this morning (I drive 140 miles every day, so you are going to here this preface a lot) thinking about these stories and the ones coming up in 1970 when the p…
03 Apr 2012, 15:08
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So far the short stories (except The Green Wall Said) have not been excessively ambiguous. 1970 is looming, a year in which Wolfe published Operation Ares and 13 stories, and the …
02 Apr 2012, 02:16
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House of Ancestors This first appeared in IF in 1968. It is on pages 150-177 in Endangered Species. SUMMARY: A rather stern fellow named Joe shows up to the world fair of 1991 o…
02 Apr 2012, 02:07
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Trip, Trap Note the semiotic slip of one letter in the title — it is the vowel that creates completely different words though the surrounding letters are the same. Thus it is tha…
01 Apr 2012, 18:19
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Hopefully we have gotten something out of the Young Wolfe posts so far; I plan on continuing but the pace for some of these stories written in the early 70s may slow down, because …
01 Apr 2012, 05:58
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The Last Casualty of Cambrai Just as the previous tale, this was an unpublished piece that first saw the light of day in 1992?s Young Wolfe. SUMMARY: Once again, the gruff and r…
01 Apr 2012, 00:58
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As I was finishing up the commentary for the rather straightforward "The Largest Luger", I just wanted to mention exactly where I think Wright oversimplified in "Attending Daedalus…
31 Mar 2012, 19:25
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The Largest Luger This Wolfe story was not published until 1992 in Young Wolfe as a previously unpublished story Wolfe had sitting around, but its style and theme really do make …
31 Mar 2012, 19:08
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Larry Santoro has an audio of Wolfe's acceptance speech at 15 minutes in his latest Tales To Terrify! Awesome, it's really funny and entertaining and it is cool to hear Wolfe's vo…
30 Mar 2012, 16:06
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Volksweapon The next three stories we will do are very similar, and so I feel like we should complete? Volksweapon?, “The Largest Luger”, and “The Last Casualty of Cambrai” before…
30 Mar 2012, 01:58
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The Green Wall Said This is probably Wolfe’s first somewhat cryptic story in which it is very difficult to draw an accurate conclusion, and it is my favorite of “Young Wolfe”. It…
29 Mar 2012, 04:47
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Screen Test was first published in 1967 in Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine. Wolfe’s mysteries are usually far less mysterious than his SF/Fantasy. This one will be brief. If you ha…
28 Mar 2012, 02:37
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Mountains like Mice This is Gene’s first “SF” sale to Worlds of If in 1966. It is extremely unlike the previous stories in that it is much longer and there is an “adventure” eleme…
28 Mar 2012, 02:32
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The Dead Man This was first published in 1965 in Sir!, and while thematically it is similar to the 1951 work of Wolfe, especially “The Grave Secret”, the prose is far more precise…
25 Mar 2012, 18:05
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My apologies, the third story is "the Grave Secret" Story #4 is "The Dead Man" Anyone who asked to receive the stories but did not please let me know.…
25 Mar 2012, 05:03
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The Grave Secret This is quite possibly the first truly Wolfe-like story in terms of theme, because it brings in a conditional, identity based unawareness that is hinted at when …
25 Mar 2012, 04:54
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For the stories in Young Wolfe and the shorter uncollected stories that are not online, I would be willing to scan these and send them to off list requests for our continuing chron…
24 Mar 2012, 18:54
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The Case of the Vanishing ghost I might as well finish out the first few stories that are available online. Feel free to add any details or observations after my initial post if …
24 Mar 2012, 04:50
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I will start with some general facts before going to the specifics of the "identity issue" I think is in some way lurking in Latro. this is kind of complicated in terms of text but…
17 Dec 2011, 00:54
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Looking for quotes about cosmology in Long Sun last night, saw some stuff that I thought was interesting. In Epiphany of the Long Sun, Echidna possesses Maytera, a chem, confuses …
14 Jan 2011, 18:00
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This weekend I am in the bay area, a city called Fairfield about thirty five miles away on interstate 80 from the book store mentioned. tried to stop in yesterday morning since I …
21 Nov 2009, 17:07
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In my heart I have always craved a benevolent fascism based on a compelling cult of personality. I always thought socialism had a lowest common denominator effect that squashed su…
20 May 2009, 00:51
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a few weeks ago I made the claim the island of the pit on blue was composed of trees. I am always travelling and so did not have access to my books until now. On page 161 of oBW,…
19 May 2009, 15:15
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