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I wrote something along those lines for "Vance Space" (my chapbook on Vancean sf) and David Langford took me to task on some of my sloppy details regarding SPACE OPERA. First, the…
06 May 2002, 03:51
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John Barach asked about LEXICON URTHUS: No, there are no plans for either. =mantis= Sirius Fiction booklets on Gene Wolfe, John Crowley PEACE: a timeline WITH dates! Come see! …
03 May 2002, 03:00
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I could see these two elements (with thematic links back to "Eyebem"--I've been reading ORBIT anthos in memory of Knight's passing) and also, since this is the sort of Wolfe ending…
01 May 2002, 16:18
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Okay, so basically ala Howard's Hyperboria and/or the world of Moorcock's Elric. That is, homo sapiens sapiens from between 125,000 to 5,000 years ago. I can grasp that. "Mu" (so…
25 Apr 2002, 16:34
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Well no, "scientific name" isn't what I'm looking at--it is the "date stamp" that each one carries. Granted, the list which you allude to is a mixed bag of real and legendary plac…
24 Apr 2002, 18:54
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I gather that Tony Ellis has no interest in including the notion that Sainte Anne/Sainte Croix (or one or the other) constitute Eden, or the origin point for human beings, such tha…
20 Apr 2002, 15:26
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Ah come on, blattid--I =wrote= that essay (published 9 years ago, fwiw), and now you're just spoiling all the fun for Jerry Friedman's voyage of discovery! I am not kidding: there…
18 Apr 2002, 16:31
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Welcome aboard, Andrew Bollen. On the topic of Blue and Green factions . . . About ten or twelve years ago I asked Gene Wolfe whether there were Blue/Green style factions in Ness…
18 Apr 2002, 16:20
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Wow. So you might be in the market for a (U.S.S.) Monitor as the Minotaur, eh? Fantastic worlds await you! (Gee, this is like making balloon animals as party favors--actually I …
18 Apr 2002, 02:55
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I believe that 17 was an unlucky number to the Romans, and they got it from the Etruscans. (Robert Graves, I, CLAUDIUS, probably.) The Group of 17 (Ascian leadership in TBOTNS) is…
27 Mar 2002, 19:14
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Now you're just wise-cracking, or you are the new guard to come on duty in interrogating. I've been through that thread simply too many times. Baldanders is a bad guy, as signifie…
26 Mar 2002, 23:18
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I wrote 1960s when I really wanted to convey the unbounded time past the Bradbury childhood decade. I didn't mean to suggest that "The Small Assassin" was written in any particula…
26 Mar 2002, 21:46
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Right. We (well, me and someone else around here) were more distracted when hard sf guy Vernor Vinge had human kids crash on a random planet that just happened to have edible grai…
26 Mar 2002, 17:01
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I went to the library to check. Yep, that's the one. Thanks! Danny/Dinosaur, alliterative like Rodrick/Rex. Danny says, "Let's go." The adult who sees them and stares is a poli…
26 Mar 2002, 02:07
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But it is not at the entrance to the Botanic Gardens! From the stairs one can see the Botanic Gardens building, yes. But the stairs of the quote are rather long and steep and lea…
25 Mar 2002, 18:58
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I don't recall that you ever mentioned which edition you were quoting from. I don't have every edition; I am aware of a few different typos in the editions I have (the Easton Press…
25 Mar 2002, 03:21
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As I was posting my Rostrum's pitchfork list, what did I find already there: Huh. Hmm. My ranking, you say. <Sigh.> I'll see what I can do. But don't expect anything today, I…
21 Mar 2002, 17:45
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Matthew quoted & queried: No, you were right before: it is BRUSH not BUSH. At least in the first edition hardcover. And first edition paperback. And Easton Press edition hardco…
20 Mar 2002, 14:19
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Hey, wait a second! Jonathan Laidlow had a nice list of uncollected Wolfe fiction at Ultan's Library back before it moved, but today I looked and I couldn't find the list. Was it…
18 Mar 2002, 16:38
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Hartshorn, he Q&Q'ed: I didn't take any notes in reading the Short Sun books, alas. (Or hooray.) So I don't remember. I remember the discussion we were having around here as eac…
14 Mar 2002, 19:02
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Industrial pollution doesn't seem to play a large part in the Commonwealth. The poisoning of the water seems more a result of the city's large population than any residue of previ…
12 Mar 2002, 14:18
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My most recent numbers are: ===== 80 PS (pre-Severian's Reign) Odilo I born, Sancha born. 66 PS scandal in reign of Autarch Appian: Sancha (age 14) in disgrace, Lomer (age 28) se…
09 Mar 2002, 04:06
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It has been written: Back up a bit. The Revolutionary is: 1) a device which behaves in a manner somewhat recognizable in 20th century terms, i.e., like an electro-shock therapy …
07 Mar 2002, 00:05
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Does he ever actually "draw it" from that position on his back? (Offhand I don't recall a case, but I could be forgetting something.) My sense of him unsheathing it when it is in …
06 Mar 2002, 19:10
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Right. Technically the rebels cannot possibly be "barbarians" in the classical sense (external non-members), they must be the alienated proletariate. So I apologize for that--the…
02 Mar 2002, 04:44
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My thoughts were more toward using old folk songs. Turning "Greensleeves" into something like: "Alas, Thecla, you do me slight Your final friend, your last boy-slave When I have l…
26 Feb 2002, 21:50
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I guess it only really matters in the sense of "where's the bomb?" which, as you note, even granted the difficulty of the naked ken-kin, becomes somewhat more difficult post-coitus…
21 Feb 2002, 18:10
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Um, because they are descendents of invaders who arrived less than the magic mutational number of chiliads ago? (My recollection was that in Severian's musing it was 10 or more chi…
12 Feb 2002, 14:36
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No, no! The losing side fails because they are decadent, corrupt, and bungling; they lack the creative vision, and only lead through dominance, manipulation, and coercion, rather t…
10 Feb 2002, 19:55
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So the short form would be to say: "The signature phrase 'hour of trust' applies equally to both the corporate and the rebel forces, not just the corporate forces as one might beli…
10 Feb 2002, 15:37
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You are banging that evolution gong again. This is where we disagree: I see kamikaze pilots as devolutionary to both sides. You see it as evolutionary, as in the next bit: Where…
09 Feb 2002, 20:51
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In a similar vein, I thought at first Wright was perhaps over-simplifying by presenting two monolithic groups, colonizer and colonized. After all, we are certain that the colonize…
09 Feb 2002, 19:34
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Well, yes. There is truth to what you are saying. However, the imp in me is reminded of similar things done comically--was it in ZORBA THE GREEK that the woman determined that the…
09 Feb 2002, 19:07
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FWIW I read the essay and enjoyed it. It is mainly about things and issues surrounding Colonizer/Colonized, a reading of 5HC that addresses Colonialism. It starts off with a survey…
09 Feb 2002, 02:36
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"Straw" alternate Medieval Europe. In Wolfe collection STOREYS FROM THE OLD HOTEL. "Continuing Westward" maybe? (STOREYS FROM THE OLD HOTEL) "Against the Lafayette Escadrille" ma…
02 Feb 2002, 17:41
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My thinking on this story was very similar to what Adam posted. I agree. There is something opaque about the narrator and the story: whether this is due to alien-ness or somethin…
30 Jan 2002, 17:36
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Try Gene Wolfe's agent, Virginia Kidd Virginia Kidd 538 E. Harford St. P.O. Box 278 Milford PA 18337-0278 =mantis= Sirius Fiction booklets on Gene Wolfe, John Crowley http://ww…
30 Jan 2002, 01:06
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Marc Aramini, Okay, so you must also think, therefore, that the Whorl made a big circular trip, since it clearly left Urth and you think it has returned to Urth. (Sorry I'm being …
07 Jan 2002, 00:41
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There is talk about time travel in the Short Sun series. But this isn't time travel: it is instantaneous travel across hundreds of light years of space. It is "real time" on Urth…
05 Jan 2002, 19:56
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My recollection of the J.D. Salinger case was precisely that: the use of letters from Salinger to the author, to be used in a brand new book about Salinger. I could be wrong (perh…
05 Jan 2002, 04:25
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Touche'! Well that certainly trumps =mine=! (Teach me to open my mouth <g>). So Big Cheers for "Interzone" for daring to Publish that which was Squelched! And the land of Tolkien…
05 Jan 2002, 04:07
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Hello there Huw, Welcome aboard! We hope and trust that ranjit will have the list-move completed at his earliest convenience, and we thank him for hosting this whole thing for so…
04 Jan 2002, 16:43
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Ladies and Gentlemen, Auntie Claus has just entered the building! <g> =mantis= Sirius Fiction Has Moved To http://www.siriusfiction.com/…
24 Dec 2001, 20:27
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Hey, that was ranjit!! Hello there, ranjit! Hooray! =mantis=…
07 Dec 2001, 05:55
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Yes, thanks--there it is! Page 51. =mantis= Sirius Fiction Has Moved To http://www.siriusfiction.com/ *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.…
30 Oct 2001, 11:49
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Try Chris Drumm Books, email him a note at cdrummbks at aol.com If he doesn't have it, hmmm. Maybe Amazon.com? Maybe Broken Mirrors Press direct? =mantis= Sirius Fiction Has Mov…
22 Oct 2001, 20:02
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[snip] I just ran out of steam retyping them from scratch! (Especially fatiguing since BIBLIOMEN doesn't exactly lie flat.) Glad to see that someone is digging out what we done …
20 Oct 2001, 11:39
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Title: The Book of the New Sun, The Urth of the New Sun Pseudo-Author: Canog Pseudo-Title: The Book of the New Sun Comments: Stories told by the Conciliator to his followers: the s…
18 Oct 2001, 09:04
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Not ringing a bell for me in either Wolfe dept. or YBSF dept. Do you have a sense of what year it was published? Last few years, or several years ago? =mantis= Sirius Fiction …
30 Aug 2001, 21:10
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Let me be the first to help you in your quest! (I'm looking at a map.) Chicago and Palatine are in Cook County. Barrington looks to be on the northern edge of Cook County (but i…
20 Aug 2001, 09:21
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