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As a younger reader, Heinlein has always seemed like the distant past to me, but of course he's not. Surely Wolfe and Heinlein must have met, and probably more than once? I think …
27 Jan 2020, 22:31
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I don’t know how many UK readers are here, but if you’re looking for reliable dealers, maybe check on the Tartarus Press website which stores carry their books? Wolfe never publish…
02 Oct 2019, 18:16
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I know many of you have seen this already, but I've written two posts on Wolfe for Tor.com, with more to come soon: https://www.tor.com/2017/10/16/approaching-gene-wolfe-with-awe-a…
18 Nov 2017, 00:42
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I liked the series very much. I think the first and third books are the best, but I admired all three volumes, and I suspect I would enjoy the second volume more if I were to rerea…
21 Sep 2014, 23:07
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Piotr, You might want to check what the shipping would be from PS Publishing. They're the actual publisher and are UK-based, while Subterranean are distributing in the US. -Matt…
11 Aug 2014, 15:06
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A few thoughts: (spoilers) - - - - 1. A quick Google search shows me that "Grafton" is "derived from the Old English graf meaning 'gorve' and 'tun' meaning enclosure." However, wi…
11 Dec 2013, 00:00
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Michael Swanwick has a blog post about it, with pictures and quotes: http://floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2012/08/michael-andre-driussi-strikes-again.html -Matt…
21 Aug 2012, 19:09
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To jump ahead almost forty years, Wolfe's "On a Vacant Face a Bruise" in the Strange Birds chapbook features some returning characters from Toy Theater. "Vacant Face" was inspired …
06 Jun 2012, 21:54
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There was a brief discussion of Wolfe and Fringe last month; I managed to find a link at the Huffington Post that shows the Long Sun scene. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/3…
02 May 2012, 13:57
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I tracked down a video of the bookstore scene here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/30/fringe-nothing-as-it-seems-exclusive_n_1390113.html It seems someone on the Fringe st…
08 Apr 2012, 23:00
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How about "A Recording" from Storeys from the Old Hotel?…
08 Mar 2012, 18:12
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I have met many people who have read Wolfe (and the one person who wrote Wolfe), but only at a science fiction convention, and so I feel that doesn't quite count. I do have one fri…
21 Dec 2011, 01:19
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The happy reviewer of Shadow states that Urth is "clearly" part of Earth's future. When was this list last so sure of anything about a Wolfe book? -Matt…
01 Nov 2011, 01:36
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I can see three ways of reading that: a) Spying has to be electronic because the Os are non-organic or robotic (Os as OS as operating system?) b) The Os don't at all resemble huma…
24 Oct 2011, 23:22
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On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Antonin Scriabin <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com As I recall, the thriller list from last year had writers like Stieg Larsson and Dan Brown in or ve…
11 Aug 2011, 16:00
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I mostly agree with this statement, though I'm not sure if I'd include the Warlord of the Air/Nomad of the Time Streams books among Moorcock's "more complex." Moorcock has stated h…
10 Aug 2011, 00:03
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I think it's just an error. The epigraph is missing in my Orb edition, but present in the more recent Gollancz "Severian of the Guild" one-volume edition. -Matt…
04 Jul 2011, 14:15
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What would happen if the post's writer discovered William Hope Hodgson's The Night Land, a novel about a world where the sun has *already* gone out? -Matt…
10 May 2011, 03:46
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On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> wrote The copious nudity would also help keep it from any TV channels. And the resolution isn't quite crowd-pleasi…
29 Apr 2011, 00:24
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I read the emails too. Stu — The things the cruise ship in Home Fires goes through might well make you grateful for your hell flight. Or not. -Matt…
26 Apr 2011, 01:00
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Gaiman could buy the Lafferty estate with the income derived from a few speech appearances: http://boingboing.net/2010/05/10/neil-gaimans-awesome.html I think he's in China and aw…
07 Mar 2011, 23:38
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I think one reason Wolfe includes this detail is to give us a little insight into Chelle's mental state; when first we hear of Mort, we just hear that Chelle shot him. We don't lea…
29 Jan 2011, 02:08
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Sounds like Wolfe to me. The Blue family brought to mind Pandora by Holly Hollander, and I couldn't help but mentally compare the Blues in this novel with Aladdin Blue in Pandora. …
29 Jan 2011, 02:04
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Surely this is the first time the list has repeated itself?…
20 Jan 2011, 03:09
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Not directly related, but io9 ran an interview with Wolfe today: http://io9.com/5736063/gene-wolfe-talks-dystopian-futures-and-the-chances-of-star+drive-in-our-lifetime -Matt…
19 Jan 2011, 00:31
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I believe there's been a rebrand on the SF masterworks; the new printings have slightly different spines and markings and that washed-out look. Or so I understand. -Matt…
01 Jan 2011, 19:26
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Wolfe's never completely ruled it out as far as I know, but he's never said he's writing it either. Fairly recently someone from this list reported that Wolfe's work-in-progress is…
01 Jan 2011, 19:21
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The UK paperback covers for TWK are indeed awful, though at least they have newly commissioned artwork, unlike Gollancz's one-volume New Sun, titled "Severian of the Guild" and bea…
01 Jan 2011, 19:16
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My politics are very far from Mieville's, though I admired the one Mieville story I've read so far. And Mieville admits that not all the writers he cites are anywhere near socialis…
20 Dec 2010, 02:40
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In the comments, the blogger talks about the Tower of Glas being one of the more "videogamey" aspects of TWK. This rather surprised me, as I think there's a lot going on in that pa…
09 Dec 2010, 03:44
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I didn't realize the Amazon listing had shown up already, nor that the book came out so soon. Home Fires is a novel. He talked about it at Readercon 2009 — spoke about some charact…
19 Aug 2010, 21:51
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Maybe he's a Buddha-like figure? The "Almost" in his name indicating he has yet to achieve enlightenment?…
20 Jul 2010, 21:44
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Great anecdote, and it rather explains the essay on the proper use of throwing knives in Castle of Days... -Matt…
03 Jul 2010, 15:51
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At one point Lancelot, questing to save Guenivere, loses his horse, swallows his pride, and rides in a cart to save the queen. Indeed, Lancelot was sometimes known as "The Knight o…
19 Apr 2010, 16:08
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I assumed "Parkhill" was a false name for Bax, who forges and signs stuff in the Parkhill name. -Matt…
30 Mar 2010, 16:39
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The legacy was from George and Bax's Aunt Carla; the checks were from his adoptive mother. -Matt…
20 Mar 2010, 15:29
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Another thought, one that gives away major plot points. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Was Ambrosius Mr. Black's son? In some legends Merlin Ambrosius is the son…
19 Mar 2010, 22:14
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I really like the look of the book's interior — ornate and mysterious. But yes, the front cover is a disappointment. His last few books have had pretty good covers, though I wish P…
19 Mar 2010, 21:51
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I had to drive twenty-five miles to get mine. No decent independents in the area and the big-box stores stock far fewer good books than they should. -Matt…
16 Mar 2010, 21:17
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Of course he didn't remember — Wolfe hasn't actually written this story yet. He will write it shortly after this whole affair concludes, then send it back to his younger self to pu…
08 Mar 2010, 21:28
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I tried Googling a few phrases from the text, but didn't get any meaningful hits — someone posted the story to a blog in 2007, attributing it to Wolfe. Couldn't find anything in a …
08 Mar 2010, 02:14
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I think you might want to look into Revolutions SF? Link to my original post about the short story: http://lists.urth.net/htdig.cgi/urth-urth.net/2008-March/008754.html An articl…
08 Mar 2010, 00:59
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It's his new novel. Also coming out in an unsigned hardback edition from Tor in mid-March. -Matt…
04 Feb 2010, 17:41
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Penny Arcade has mentioned The Book of the New Sun before. It was some time before I'd read Wolfe, though I'd heard of him and had been meaning to read him. I owe Penny Arcade some…
13 Jan 2010, 16:51
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Severian's a generally dishonest and unreliable narrator, but he does tell SilkHorn that he won't ever tell of their meeting. As Sev probably doesn't completely understand how much…
12 Jan 2010, 19:12
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I don't think you're reading too much into this at all. I played the game myself and noticed it. Someone on the Killzone 2 team has good taste in literature — the second level is c…
04 Jan 2010, 20:21
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At Readercon, Wolfe talked about his pleasure in writing AEG, but didn't give any real plot hints aside from saying Reis was a villain who wanted to rule the world. -Matt…
07 Oct 2009, 23:10
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If we're going this direction, it might be significant that many Catholic sf writers are converts. Walter Miller Jr. converted to, and later from, Catholicism. Wolfe was a convert.…
22 Sep 2009, 20:32
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I've heard Wolfe call him Gideon Chase. He may have said he was a hero at the same time - he certainly said Reis was, for all his good points, a villain. -Matt…
10 Sep 2009, 21:32
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James, Thanks for the very good and thorough account. If I recall correctly, he said he'd done two rewrites of this next book, apparently called Home Fires, when I spoke to him a…
09 Sep 2009, 12:56
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