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--- On Fri, 9/28/12, Daniel Petersen <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com> wrote: Yeah, admitting that the 'genre' or 'mode' is some kind of 'fantasy' in no way mitigates aga…
28 Sep 2012, 19:39
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--- On Fri, 9/28/12, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote: Which argues for Krait as blind to the sun, or merely insensitive to it? Great question, and very vali…
28 Sep 2012, 18:22
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--- On Fri, 9/28/12, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote: From: David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> Subject: Re: (urth) Inhumi eyes and names To: "The Urth …
28 Sep 2012, 18:19
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--- On Fri, 9/28/12, Daniel Petersen <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com> wrote: From: Daniel Petersen <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com> Subject: Re: (urth) Inhumi eyes and …
28 Sep 2012, 18:15
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--- On Fri, 9/28/12, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote: Another angle would be that since Krait is lying about flying through space (assuming he is lying), he …
28 Sep 2012, 17:58
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Also, the light of the sun has been over and over linked to a salvific or spiritual transmogrification in the sequence - the absence of being able to see the sun is certainly a spi…
28 Sep 2012, 17:55
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--- On Mon, 9/24/12, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote: Not least the question of time, if Green is Urth, assuming that is your assumption. So far everything has …
24 Sep 2012, 13:20
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--- On Mon, 9/24/12, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote: Passages which of course raise more questions . . . The "not yet climbed down" suggests that the wisdom…
24 Sep 2012, 12:16
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--- On Sun, 9/23/12, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote: From: David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> Subject: (urth) Gender and creation myth To: "The Urth M…
24 Sep 2012, 02:15
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--- On Sun, 9/23/12, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote: Yes, I had meant to include a passing comment on that as well. If the universe is double-sexed (dioeciou…
23 Sep 2012, 14:50
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I rather fancy that the pirate girl became the seaweed multilimbed thing that rises from the depths, but I need to check their proximity in the text (recombination hybrid of trees/…
18 Sep 2012, 21:11
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--- On Tue, 9/18/12, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote: ?And it explains the shift from pirate ship to Seawrack, especially if Babbie is really more than he see…
18 Sep 2012, 21:09
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No, Silk's personality is coming through here in Horn, confusing Hoof for his feelings for "Horn". The [sic] is the narrators, daisy et al, putting that that is how Horn wrote it. …
18 Sep 2012, 15:02
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Yes, there is the possibility that ultra high minded psychologist Quoquo is just afraid of the jungle and there is nothing there, and I think that, too, evokes the terror of the Vi…
09 Sep 2012, 13:51
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--- On Sun, 9/9/12, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote: From: David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> Subject: Re: (urth) Short Story 45: Feather Tigers To: "T…
09 Sep 2012, 13:47
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Okay, that write up gets better after the first line, sorry. --- On Sat, 9/8/12, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> wrote: FEATHER TIGERS “Feather Tigers” first a…
09 Sep 2012, 02:23
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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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He's friends with James Wynn and Nigel, too. Yes, and Gene's facebook is a springboard to the SF community of writers and editors in general: Hartwell, Gaiman, O'Leary, etc. He has…
05 Sep 2012, 13:46
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but we do know the lewis mounted gun is from the royal air force biplane, though I vaguely suppose they?enlisted Americans, too, during the war. I am leaning toward British. --- O…
04 Sep 2012, 23:19
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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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The timeline in Short Sun with relevant page numbers is the closest thing to "summary" and is his best work on the Short Sun part. He even breaks down on which pages the narrator i…
23 Aug 2012, 18:57
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I had a chance to look at an advance copy - he has done an exceedingly thorough job on the categories and taxonomy of names in Long Sun and on the timeline with relevant page numbe…
23 Aug 2012, 15:42
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Yes - though the "damage"?the bear has done is a 100 percent ironic statement - it eats rotten apples on the ground, that's it - it doesn't do?ANY damage. The damage the eco crew d…
17 Aug 2012, 15:27
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The story does say "there were six deer - I guess they may have been about the only wild deer left in the US", so that seems to be pretty bad and widespread de-speciation. And ALL …
02 Aug 2012, 22:13
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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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--- On Wed, 8/1/12, DAVID STOCKHOFF <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote: (I think it was David, the formatting is a little off here) Of course, in order to reach a conclusion t…
01 Aug 2012, 18:14
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Well, there are no profound truths/mysteries about the nature of reality, but Martin does several things subtly, including the family tree of some characters. The "out of character…
01 Aug 2012, 14:30
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or have these idiots killed something special like "big foot" without even realizing it?…
01 Aug 2012, 03:05
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Interesting thought,Jeff, that it could be an ape. The physical description is weird : "With a peculiar cry I can only describe as approximating the note of a large dog kicked un…
01 Aug 2012, 03:00
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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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Nor do I. I am merely saying he became less thematically political in fiction after his early efforts. Sent from my Kindle Fire I don't find 'socialism has taken over the fre…
29 Jul 2012, 04:37
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He was far far more overtly political in his short stories of the early 70s and in Operation Ares, and most of that stuff was not reprinted. If anything as we get farther away from…
28 Jul 2012, 22:31
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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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--- On Mon, 7/16/12, Daniel Petersen <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com> wrote: From: Daniel Petersen <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com> Subject: Re: (urth) Short Story 36: …
16 Jul 2012, 14:14
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--- On Tue, 7/10/12, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> wrote: On second thought, I think the physical description of Jane as brown haired and blue eyed and her asser…
11 Jul 2012, 13:35
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On second thought, I think the physical description of Jane as brown haired and blue eyed and her assertion that she is from first the imaginary Oz and thenTarzana, the home of Bur…
11 Jul 2012, 05:18
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It very well could be; I haven't seen Metropolis and it has been a long time since I read The Stars my Destination. I am convinced from the way that Wolfe talks about looking at a …
10 Jul 2012, 04:58
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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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John wrote: Marc -- Thanks for the survey of Operation ARES. You write: It seems to me that Wolfe is inviting us to view the novel in terms of chess. Castle is, I suppose, a ro…
26 Jun 2012, 20:54
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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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I don't know. Always one hack in every collection ;) Seriously though I am super super excited. I am really curious to see what direction these big hitters will take it. Looks…
18 Jun 2012, 17:36
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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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In any case, there is a strain of dystopian "what if the zeitgeist of the youth counterculture and socialist/communist sympathy of the late 1960s - early 1970s proceeds" in a huge …
12 Jun 2012, 16:08
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--- On Tue, 6/12/12, Mo Holkar <lists at ukg.co.uk> wrote: From: Mo Holkar <lists at ukg.co.uk> Subject: Re: (urth) Short Stories 33-35: Mathoms from the Time Closet To: "The Urt…
12 Jun 2012, 16:02
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re Tony's comments on the man being a German pilot - do you think that the balloon is really The Gazelle (with a woman at her helm?) or an aficionado who recreated the silk balloon…
12 Jun 2012, 15:12
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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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