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Glad to see some activity on the urth list. In the interest of possibly stirring up a little more: I Lolita for the first time a few months ago -- Amazing!!! (But difficult; I r…
11 Sep 2009, 22:57
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For the well heeled Wolfean: http://ncane.com/1pom…
21 May 2009, 16:43
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The many-limbedness of the Neighbors, their worship of the Mother goddess, and the prominence of Gaon and the Hindi-named gaonese (who seem to worship a benevolent Kali-esque aspec…
27 Nov 2008, 22:07
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There is a possible discrepancy between HornSilk's description of his arrival in the Whorl in In Green's Jungles, and that by Hoof, Daisy, Hide, and Vadsig at the beginning of Retu…
25 Oct 2008, 18:06
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I'm rerereading *TBotSS*. On the way to Pajarocu Horn encounters Captain Strik's boat. Strik is from Dorp ('town' in Dutch), the quasi-Dutch village. Strik means 'noose,' and hi…
13 Oct 2008, 02:51
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JEEZ! How could I have missed this?! My mind is presently boggling. This also makes me think about the gender content of Vironese names. (I don't expect any of this is news to …
19 Sep 2008, 16:08
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It's like a cross between Harry Potter and G?del, Escher, Bach.…
15 Sep 2008, 02:08
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Wolfe is a finalist in both the Fantasy Novel and Novella categories in the Locus Poll (for Pirate Freedom and "Memorare," respectively).…
25 Apr 2008, 16:03
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I'm glad you found that Amazon list. I've been creating for myself a course in Wolfe-related readings, trying to fill in the vast holes in my very pragmatic public school educatio…
17 Jan 2008, 07:39
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http://www.selparis.com/SciFiTexts/sf0009.html…
07 Jan 2008, 13:06
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Is the List aware of this?: http://wyrmpublishing.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=12 Does "Memorare" remind anyone else of Niven-esque "hard" sf?…
06 Dec 2007, 01:23
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I have not been able to determine Chris's last name either. We are told that it is long and difficult, and hard to pronounce, and that a signalman would abbreviate it. Then we ar…
29 Nov 2007, 07:43
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Will Wolfe be making any public appearances in connection with the release of Pirate Freedom?…
12 Nov 2007, 21:23
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I haven't read enough Wells to speak to that, but I do think that "tIoDDaOS" is a love note to them both. I did see your post in the archives, and I had the exact same reaction to…
06 Sep 2007, 03:36
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In the interest of stirring up some discussion on the too-quiet list... I recently read C.S. Lewis's "Ransom trilogy" for the first time (comprising Out of the Silent Planet, Pere…
04 Sep 2007, 21:29
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We have been working on the entry for "The Death of Dr. Island" on WolfeWiki. It's only begun, really, but it could use input from contributors with a background in mythology, or …
28 Jul 2007, 21:22
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Wolfe seems to be a big admirer of R. A. Lafferty. ("Has Anyone Seen Junie Moon" from _Starwater Strains_ has a character named Roy T. Laffer.) Are there any readers of Lafferty …
21 Jul 2007, 18:11
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There's a set of essays in the old archives about Wizard of Oz references in "The Eyeflash Miracles." The essays are by William Ansley, and they are very thorough on the Oz connec…
21 Jul 2007, 00:42
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I would never have picked up on that. But then I've read very little by Lovecraft. What are the clues? Couldn't let that pass without picking a nit: Wolfe's collection is "Inno…
21 Jun 2007, 20:55
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Roy asks: I now understand this story less than ever. As you observe, it seems to be the primary feature of Tracking Song that it is woven of many disparate strands. This is tru…
19 Jun 2007, 10:39
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Woops, sorry about that. Take "Liebling" as a sign of my affection. What sort of thing is a vizcacha, by the way? Well, that wouldn't be a first. So there is another layer there, …
17 Jun 2007, 19:09
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Dave Liebling asks (nine years ago) what we are to make of "Tracking Song's epigraph (http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0007/0586.shtml<http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0007/058…
17 Jun 2007, 16:51
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We're leaving something important out of the discussion of "Tracking Song," something that Alice Turner noted a long time ago: http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0007/0595.shtml …
17 Jun 2007, 06:03
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No, Cutthroat isn't simply a dog; but Cutthroat is to a dog as the Wiggikki are to wolves. You can even speculate on his breed.... Yes, Cutthroat has knowledge and devices from t…
09 Jun 2007, 15:31
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Thanks, Roy for taking the time to reread and post on "Tracking Song." Roy wrote: "If his "birthmark" was a mark like Cain's, then it did him little good. He was mortally wounded…
08 Jun 2007, 23:02
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Joshua writes: "Caves also pop up in Fifth Head. My memory of Fifth Head has degraded somewhat, but I think that the mythological abo (Sandwalker?) made a pilgrimage to one in "A S…
06 Jun 2007, 22:33
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"Tracking Song" questions I've recently read "Tracking Song" (_The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories_), along with Borski's blurb in _The Long and Short o…
05 Jun 2007, 22:44
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I was hoping to find some discussion of Vonnegut on the list today. It's been too long since I read Slaughterhouse Five for me to offer anything. (All I remember is "Billy Pilgrim…
13 Apr 2007, 00:19
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This is my first post to the list. Having discovered The Book of the New Sun and developed an almost fanatical devotion to Wolfe, I quickly gobbled up The Urth of the New Sun and t…
22 Jan 2007, 00:09
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