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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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Some strange choices here. Parkroads? On the Train? It's not that these are not good; they just don't seem representative. I think novel excerpts would have been good, such as …
12 Oct 2008, 23:55
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That is brillarious.…
02 Oct 2008, 16:17
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Check out "The Tree is My Hat" from *Innocents Aboard*.…
24 Sep 2008, 22:51
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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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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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It's like a cross between Harry Potter and G?del, Escher, Bach.…
15 Sep 2008, 02:08
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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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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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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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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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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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http://www.selparis.com/SciFiTexts/sf0009.html…
07 Jan 2008, 13:06
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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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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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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 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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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