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they say the white creatures they chew and spit out are their "brides." - seems like an organism to me. As I said, the associations are symbolic rather than literal, so proving it …
05 Aug 2014, 16:59
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Seeing as how I view Shadow Children as psychically gifted and "empathetic" and capable of rising up in the draft of currents from the ground and take seriously the idea that even …
05 Aug 2014, 13:54
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During the fuller award ceremony, santoro's speech was much my favorite in appreciation of Gene, talking about how Gene is a great man because that's just how he is, regardless of …
05 Aug 2014, 01:56
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Thanks Fernando. When I started it I imagined it as a bit more interactive than it became (but I also think I got better at it) - the insights posters like Craig had on the metap…
03 Aug 2014, 17:37
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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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A quick note and public thank you to Matthew King for putting me in touch with a publisher willing to consider the work - the basic idea is to split the book in twain, stopping at …
03 Aug 2014, 02:29
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Wait wait ... The twenty year difference between priest and Marcella and between Betty and Kevin Malone must resonate ... The guilt of Kevin is assumed by his namesake but Priest …
02 Aug 2014, 21:55
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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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And as I was showering, a great and terrible fear overcame me that I had written Kefka instead of Kafka once again. Final Fantasy's Kefka's influence on Wolfe would problematize r…
02 Aug 2014, 12:46
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My first thought was something dramatic like "between the light and the shadow: the fiction of Gene Wolfe" (implying the undistorted object itself, but without resorting to "sun" i…
02 Aug 2014, 12:14
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The novels are discussed with fairly short essays and have some of my best observations - latro as ares, Skip as sleeper assassin, Number Five as the only human, Marsch as shadow c…
01 Aug 2014, 16:31
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Yes, that was the whole volume, Last Drink Bird Head. I will look up the individual story title. I had never heard of Dumpster World before, a mock review of his own fiction, but …
01 Aug 2014, 16:27
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Here is the list compiled from the wolfe wiki with doubled stories removed and with a few missing ones added in. X Easter Sunday X1951. The Case of the Vanishing Ghost X1951…
01 Aug 2014, 14:21
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Thanks for the support, guys!…
01 Aug 2014, 14:18
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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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Thanks Greg I appreciate it!…
01 Aug 2014, 05:13
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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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Yes I realized grit went to bring the escape pod to the hydroponic module, but it isn't clear if she is in it at the end. Do time quanta exist? Light certainly emits photons, and…
29 Jul 2014, 19:59
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On looking at Grit's disappearance again, it seems that she actually has gone to get the escape tender and bring it to the hydroponic jungle for the Captain and Johann so that the …
29 Jul 2014, 12:14
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The rather hallucinatory scene where Erik believes he has come to the middle of the Ocean standing on a pier seems to me one of the most important thematic repetitions in the story…
29 Jul 2014, 11:57
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As I said, if there is any physicist who can help with the time quanta paragraph, that would be great. It seems that the overmonitor is saying existence is dependent on the emiss…
29 Jul 2014, 06:25
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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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Doesn't have to be a lie if something else can explain it. "Nope, whole scene is fabricated." Why two species of alien if both won't be used? Wolfe likes very elaborate games or th…
28 Jul 2014, 20:54
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The tree reaching out for him - sorry for several typos below.…
28 Jul 2014, 18:33
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The questioner Pontin conflates VRT with a shadow child in the question erroneously. VRT is "variance reduction techniques", an engineering term for approximation. When Ultan's …
28 Jul 2014, 18:31
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Fernando said: It's a very interesting interview, much less cagey than usual for Wolfe. The straightforward "He's a ghost" about Weer, and even more the statement that Marsch "kno…
28 Jul 2014, 15:29
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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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Also note that the House of Enid does not start to creak and rumble until Todd gives the visitor a drink of the harder spirits, which are probably seasoned with the white/green wor…
24 Jul 2014, 17:43
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Two more little things that I think are kind of neat. Why Halloween? The "things" are dressing up as comfortable houses to attract their pollinators: to Lily the house is a safe,…
24 Jul 2014, 16:51
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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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That one was a bit more involved than I planned it to be ... oh man. Hope you guys enjoy it. There was almost no commentary on it.…
24 Jul 2014, 02:13
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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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Lil abner's father was named lucifer, by the way. I suppose that post should be "his being in the 7th grade..." ... Possessive pronouns with gerunds and gerund phrases ...…
21 Jul 2014, 17:12
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Him being in the seventh grade explains why he isn't in the picture- his perceptions were altered by wrestling with his changeling. It seems mysterious but can be rationalized if w…
21 Jul 2014, 17:03
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Sometimes the eureka moment would hit me after I made the post, like Mountains Like Mice, where the purple dye he paints himself with is the purple dye of an in vivo science experi…
19 Jul 2014, 00:09
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Did you read the posts I made after my initial one that accounted for the three missing years? Pete Palmer was an actor who played Lil Abner, born in 1931 like Gene Wolfe (Lil Abn…
19 Jul 2014, 00:07
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I don't think the geography is more like hell than any atmospheric warming, post nuclear war society would be, but I agree with the hansel and gretel resonance... Wolfe has echoed…
18 Jul 2014, 05:57
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In any case, you understand that I am saying basic plot and story matter in Wolfe, and the framework is ultimately discernible.…
17 Jul 2014, 17:10
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On rereading that last sentence I feel as if I created a mixed construction. Perhaps the last word should be "indiscernible", since we are talking about what Wolfe's stories DON'T…
17 Jul 2014, 17:07
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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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Would temp change the balance though? If mercury expanded or contracted.…
16 Jul 2014, 22:13
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I have to thematically disagree with that assessment, Jeffery. The astronaut is called a knight, the Latin is mistranslated ... New things get old names, but sometimes old things …
16 Jul 2014, 18:33
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Marginally off topic, having said all that and been rather smug in my dismissal of "popular" entertainers, if you hang out in Las Vegas boxing gyms you will meet an amazing number …
13 Jul 2014, 23:59
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Of course, I am a Wolfe fan first and an SF one second (or third) but even though I preferred the Fuller Ceremony because it was all about Gene, I can't recommend the Nebula Awards…
13 Jul 2014, 23:53
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The stressful and long decline of rosemary is concerning. This might be the most depressing analysis ever undertaken on urth list. I have felt myself to be very fortunate in my ch…
13 Jul 2014, 23:22
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I mean this really depends how tangential and desparate you want to get. Like Silhouette, which I am almost finished writing up, clearly has no wolves, as there are no animals on …
07 Jul 2014, 21:57
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