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Wasn't there an article written by a list member on corn hybridization and its significance to Short Sun? Can someone give the link to that? Is Wolfe doing a word play between "h…
19 Sep 2008, 15:20
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Well, I don't know, maybe not, but it's a moo point (as Joey Tribiani would say). Stephenson's *Anathem* is a postcyberpunk sf novel about another World, with a planet called Arbr…
15 Sep 2008, 19:36
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Mostly I agree with Dirda; however I think I like it considerably better than he does. I admire and approve of Stephenson's project. I suspect Stephenson really was thinking abou…
15 Sep 2008, 18:40
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What would your personal Best of Gene Wolfe's Short Fiction anthology contain? I would include all the novellas from The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories…
21 Aug 2008, 18:08
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But it is not until the eclipse is *over* that Severian's shadow falls upon them. (That is to say, he eclipses the sun, but not in the way you mean.) In order for a person to cre…
12 Jun 2008, 00:20
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Isn't it stated almost explicitly in the afterword that the eclipse was caused by Tzadkiel's ship? If you think the Twain references are there, they can still be there if the ship…
10 Jun 2008, 15:52
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Judging by Wizard Knight, there seems to be a feedback loup of influence. I have started and abandoned two Crowley novels, Little, Big and The Solitudes. I want to like Crowley, …
13 May 2008, 14:23
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Interesting. Iron Council gave me the feeling that I was reading a steaming pile of poo.…
12 May 2008, 19:10
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Adam, Just had to say hello to a fellow St. Louisan. "Where'd you go to high school?" and all that. Go Cards. I became a sf fan in high school, with Robert A. Heinlein. I cred…
11 May 2008, 22:07
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That's great news about Memorare. Supposedly I should at some point in the not too distant future receive my signed limited edition hardcover from whatchamacallit publishing....…
25 Feb 2008, 01:53
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I managed to barely make it to Capricon in time to meet Gene and Rosemary Wolfe and have him sign *Pirate Freedom* and *Soldier of Sidon* (I decided to bring only his two most rece…
18 Feb 2008, 18:02
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I wonder why Wolfe isn't listed on the Capricon XXVIII page (http://www.capricon.org/capricon28/) either as a guest of honor or a special guest. What does the guy have to do? Wri…
13 Feb 2008, 19:47
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Neat. I'm going to try to make it. Since the venue isn't a bookstore I assume I can bring my own copy of Pirate Freedom to the signing? Would it be poor etiquette to bring a diff…
12 Feb 2008, 04:29
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"Upsets" nothing! Wolfe fans rejoice; you don't have to read The White Goddess! Philosophically, TWG is pretty much diametrically opposed to Wolfe anyway, TWG being in part a sor…
18 Jan 2008, 23:09
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No, you are not the only one. And Chris's child is a possible fourth. Though I don't have any textual evidence other than Thematic.…
17 Jan 2008, 22:45
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Yes, absolutely. I think one source of their resemblance, and the similarity of other Wolfe stories, is due to Wolfe's absorption of Robert Graves's The White Goddess.…
16 Jan 2008, 21:41
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Speaking for myself, this is the nail in the coffin of this reading. Calling it a "literary trick" makes it sound like something Wolfe might do, but really it just turns too much o…
08 Jan 2008, 12:52
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Talk about "working by short circuits." Do you suppose it was the Templars who terraformed Venus? And moved it to form a double planet with Earth? And got rid of Lune? Why does…
17 Dec 2007, 17:25
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http://listserver.dreamhost.com/pipermail/urth-urth.net/2006-July/002501.html [quote] Gene Wolfe was asked by James Jordan: "Which of the following, if any, are physically (not in…
17 Dec 2007, 16:21
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He unquestionably has all of the good characteristics you list; Wolfe's works frequently argue that there is good and evil in everyone. Pas could be Silk. I think there's a simil…
08 Dec 2007, 17:31
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[ G: Fr. Chris begins writing in 2017] [ H: Fr. Chris returns to Cuba in 2018] Well done. Happy birthday Chris. Also, Capt. Burt mentions that Panama City has been rebuilt and r…
08 Dec 2007, 15:36
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I did have that reaction when I read Protector: If the breeders where homo habilis, then why does homo habilis seem to share ancestory with other Terran species? However, from wh…
08 Dec 2007, 06:00
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To me, the most chilling insight into Chris's "half-monstrous" nature comes when he is recounting having saved the slaves in the Spanish stockade outside Portobello. Chris says th…
01 Dec 2007, 00:12
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I wasn't thinking. The other of "them" is obviously his younger self. There is no suggestion of a mother, nor even any caginess.…
30 Nov 2007, 18:59
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There is a hint, but it is sufficiently cagey that it almost suggests the opposite. It is on page 226. Chris is fighting his temptation to go to New Jersey: "I tell myself that …
30 Nov 2007, 18:54
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I wasn't addressed, but Yes. Even if it weren't so, there is of course the constant contact between Sir Able the Overcyn and various Aelf, not to mention the denizens of Muspel an…
28 Sep 2007, 20:43
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Thanks, Stephen, for a thoughtful and honest post. I too welcome this sort of post, whether I agree or not, and I would like to see more of this kind of thing on the list. I actu…
19 Sep 2007, 17:15
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Thanks to John for the thoughtful post on Slow Children at Play. Maybe you could post some of this interpretation on the WolfeWiki. I think I may have the answer to one of your qu…
14 Sep 2007, 04:08
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I seem to have overstated my case, thereby losing my point. I don't really mean to say that Wolfe adopts Lewis's cosmology, but I do want to say that there are more resemblances b…
05 Sep 2007, 03:06
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If anyone on the list knows of future events like this, please post to the list. I would gladly have driven to Collinsville. It's times like this I wish Wolfe had a website.…
06 Aug 2007, 04:05
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Excellent! I knew about the poetic pairing but I didn't connect it to Nicholas's divided brain (one of which is *silent* while the other does the talking!). Also, I should have l…
29 Jul 2007, 04:04
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Seconded. Also, I think secondary reading lists and links might be useful, both for individual stories/novels (e.g., relevant sections of Herodotus' Histories for Soldier, or link…
05 Jul 2007, 22:57
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I would like to be a part of the efforts if I can offer anything. Is there a plan of action? (One thing I noticed: Under "Standalone Novels" the publication date of Pirate Freedo…
04 Jul 2007, 04:01
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This is extremely helpful -- much more comprehensive than anything I've found in the archives. I hope the wiki project goes forward, because I think its value to Wolfe's readers -…
28 Jun 2007, 18:38
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The whole Soldier series is opaque to me: I enjoy the surface as I enjoy all Wolfe's writing, but I can tell there is something underneath that I can't quite perceive. Wolfe subje…
28 Jun 2007, 01:03
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I thought I was following the plow. What does yours look like? I hereby attest that all these facts are true: Nashhwonk's chair really is a chair, just as Mimmunka's polearm real…
18 Jun 2007, 14:41
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Actually, here is proof that Dave Liebling was the first to speculate on Cutthroat's dog nature (though I can't find the original post for some reason): http://www.urth.net/urth/a…
17 Jun 2007, 17:14
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Well, I think I first read it in one of alga's posts. There's lots of clever people making astute observations in those archives, if you can manage to find them, but it's not easy…
17 Jun 2007, 16:20
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On Nashhwonk's chair as his antlers, Roy writes skeptically: Yes. If you accept that the Wiggikki are a wolf tribe, you should have no trouble accepting that Nashhwonk is a moose.…
17 Jun 2007, 16:13
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I don't think so. There are several giants in the story, and I'm convinced they all correspond to large animals. Nashhwonk is a moose (the chair is his antlers), Mimmunka is some k…
17 Jun 2007, 05:14
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On the dogness of Cutthroat, Roy writes: I don't think we're that far apart; it's just a matter of how literal we're being. Cutthroat is a dog-man in the story. I said, "Cutthroat…
17 Jun 2007, 04:27
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Roy, I'm glad you've taken up this thread as I didn't feel I was doing it justice. It has colored my view of the story for so long that it's hard to shake, and I'm not sure that i…
14 Jun 2007, 22:12
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Matthew King noted: Yes, _White Fang_ is there too, I imagine, although I haven't read it, so someone else will have to draw those connections. Someone on the old urth list specu…
13 Jun 2007, 23:06
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Just one more observation, and I hope it won't get me in trouble: It's just my opinion, but... I think Wolfe does LeGuin better than LeGuin. Way better. *runs away*…
13 Jun 2007, 00:30
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Nigel writes: Well I'm having trouble being coherent, so please bear with me through some tangled reasoning. But the big clues are: - the frozen wasteland setting (referencing Cot…
13 Jun 2007, 00:21
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It's online (if you can bear to read it on the screen), it's a quick read (straight, no puzzles), and it's very illuminating. It's easy to see why Wolfe responded to it, with its i…
10 Jun 2007, 19:02
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*thalassocrat wrote: *Somewhere early on in Long Sun, we learn that Auk once kicked a man to death. That's right -- I said earlier he kicked Chenille, but that's wrong. During th…
03 Apr 2007, 00:01
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It's been a little while since I read the books, but in The Book of the Long Sun, (Horn and Nettle write that) Patera Silk shrives Auk, and the content of his shriving is, among ot…
31 Mar 2007, 14:44
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transentient wrote: "Seems to me that you can make something of a voided cross out of four gammas, if you don't mind the arms of the cross being open at the ends." Yeah, this is t…
22 Jan 2007, 02:41
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Well, it turns out the answer was right in front of me if I'd had a little more imagination or more knowledge of heraldic crosses. I just started leafing through the Long Sun nove…
22 Jan 2007, 02:27
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