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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 Italian version translates the entire "like glass/grass grow to any eye not of me" doggerel to hide Vodalus' coin completely differently in the first and last books. I haven't…
27 Aug 2014, 19:41
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I don't know what Wolfe's policy is on answering translator's and editor's questions, but he sure won't answer any of mine about his work anymore, and hasn't since like 2003. He do…
27 Aug 2014, 16:18
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Well, it does a little bit, because aude complains nobody told her the chatelaine had a pet.…
27 Aug 2014, 15:27
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It could be the Dickens virus of Doctor of Death Island if we were so inclined ... sounds like a plan.…
27 Aug 2014, 14:11
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Luckily, we still have the description of the girls legs on Ste. Anne as grotesquely long and like staffs which jives with the heronlike walk of abos in "A Story" and we still have…
27 Aug 2014, 13:42
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Here's a New Wave SF trick to do: in half the texts have the landers instantly replaced by imitative abos who believe themselves to be human, in the other half have Veil's hypothes…
27 Aug 2014, 13:34
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I am positing that "they" in the ace paperback shifted mid sentence. Now we have to guess whether an editor who didn't get it or Gene changed it.…
27 Aug 2014, 13:32
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The editor who changed "then I walked into the room" to "then Horn walked into the room" did it without Wolfe's knowledge and he is mad about it. I really think an editor changed …
27 Aug 2014, 13:29
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son of a gun what version of the text do you have?!!!! In the ACE paperback it says "When he came close to them they extended hands, open, and smiled; but THEY did not understand o…
27 Aug 2014, 13:27
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Do you think my assessment of the problematic timeline in The Map is accurate? It's been years and years since I read New Sun - going through it again now. Ironically I know New S…
27 Aug 2014, 06:00
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Thanks I will look it over again.…
27 Aug 2014, 05:52
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The parallel between Inire and mr smith in a solar labyrinth seems apt. That solitary child lost in the maze at noon when the maze itself disappears ...…
26 Aug 2014, 20:12
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I don't think the larval- lemur talk is a silly tale. I think it references the hieros and hierodules. Odilo just doesn't know about that.…
26 Aug 2014, 19:51
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So is "hooking" that golden fish dangerous? I always wondered if this was related to the new sun, though the fish is considered a minor mirror dweller. Inire might be literally cl…
26 Aug 2014, 19:49
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That darkness and gloom of creation Gwern mentioned is evoked is because this is a Halloween story dressed as sf/fantasy, for what it's worth.…
26 Aug 2014, 19:37
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The other issue is that if Inire has done something to get the cat back that costs the good part of her soul and innocence, it makes Inire truly a diabolical figure. His strict ord…
26 Aug 2014, 19:33
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Sounds good. I did mean to imply it was something of her lost innocence, and of course odilo sends it to leocadia on purpose - he gets revenge for lomer and sancha.…
26 Aug 2014, 19:19
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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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No lee, I think he was a shadow child, which is very different than an abo. I think Abos and shadow children have completely different life cycles. Thus he is persecuted. Everyon…
26 Aug 2014, 13:52
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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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No problem, I appreciate your close reading. I was on the lookout for things like the House of 31 February and got overzealous. I am glad you are reading them over! My pace has ac…
25 Aug 2014, 20:10
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there is an old saying 30 days has September april something and November and when I was writing it I messed up the third month as May, then thought I edited it out when I looked a…
25 Aug 2014, 16:37
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forgot to edit that out I guess. thought I caught it.…
25 Aug 2014, 16:36
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Marsch had already been to St Anne and been replaced when he met Number Five. They look at each other and instantly recognize a few things - Marsch sees Number Five is a clone and…
25 Aug 2014, 14:21
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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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And no, you don't need to come back with the drug saliva bit confusing the guy and having nothing to do with microorganisms. Like I said, believe whatever you want.…
25 Aug 2014, 00:23
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Cool, you can believe whatever you want. If you want to view the final scenes as outright lies that's fine, but there are textual hints that explain them as something beyond lies.…
25 Aug 2014, 00:20
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You have to explain away the death of the cat, the death of the boy, the presence of two alien species, the presence of Veil's hypothesis, believe that number five dreams of abos b…
24 Aug 2014, 18:58
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It takes about three days for Marsch to be reborn on Easter Sunday from the bite as something different - his body undergoes a harrowing over that period of time. The existence of…
24 Aug 2014, 16:52
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Well well well ... looks like I was taught a "false theology" according to this article. http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=13621 In America, however…
24 Aug 2014, 16:35
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24 Aug 2014, 16:29
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Marsch the infected kills his own eventual killer, the cat, who had an empathetic association with Victor (and passed this to Marsch), and places the cat at Victor's dead feet. Th…
24 Aug 2014, 16:26
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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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Given Inire's proclivity for children and taking them to places in his mirrors via the reflection and intensification of light, I actually have to agree that there are some paralle…
22 Aug 2014, 14:45
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22 Aug 2014, 14:42
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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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The water/death/resurrection imagery is in several scenes, like Dorcas' appearance where she hands him Terminus Est, like the breaking of terminus est at the lake against Baldander…
22 Aug 2014, 09:57
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Marco wrote: "The succession of sacraments follows the tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church rather than the Roman Catholic Church (where Eucharist is very close to Confirmation…
22 Aug 2014, 09:51
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And to some degree the conciliator redeems the diabolical Eucharist - Thecla is brought to genuine life not only because of the analept of the alzabo, but because of who is consumi…
22 Aug 2014, 09:31
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I like it, but there is and always has been a syncretic symbolism in new sun between water, healing, and death that undercuts this baptism imagery a bit. It's not just baptism, it…
22 Aug 2014, 09:25
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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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Yeah there is a scene in new sun when thecla's childhood friend (domnina?) is shown the mirrors by Inire and Inire says they have almost hooked the fish reflected into existence. I…
21 Aug 2014, 05:20
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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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I think a part of this message was lost in draft form, sorry. More charitably, perhaps wolfe wants to allow some freedom of interpretation, so we can walk away at a certain point …
19 Aug 2014, 17:03
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We could go back and forth, the three of us, for a million years. We should just accept we get different things out of the text, and will never convince the other. However, the r…
19 Aug 2014, 16:56
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