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John Bishop wrote, beginning: And included a table. Thanks for answering my question. Very sobering stuff. =mantis= Sirius Fiction Has Moved To http://www.siriusfiction.com/…
15 Aug 2001, 09:38
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It's like a game of "whisper down the alley." In a letter to Gene Wolfe I said I liked "Copperhead" and I'd been echatting about it with Roy; how we were both thrown by that "new …
03 Aug 2001, 18:16
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I would've sworn we kicked this one around, alot! But maybe it was just in private email with Roy. My main question would be: why is Weer fabricating? What is the "this really h…
09 Jul 2001, 21:18
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I wrote And as I sent it, I said "Doh!" No, not Rostrum--it was Charles Dye (aka raster) who nicely showed the links. My apologies for the mistake! =mantis= Sirius Fiction Ha…
03 Jul 2001, 16:49
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IIRC, Rostrum proved that the most extended bits of the Writings that we have are straight from Marcus Aurelius. Not the allusions to items, but the actual text we have. The Writ…
03 Jul 2001, 12:09
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Ha-ha! Hee-hee! =mantis= Sirius Fiction Has Moved To http://www.siriusfiction.com/…
01 Jul 2001, 07:06
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Wombat wrote Something we can agree on. Sorry, you are wrong! <g> Unless what you really meant to write was: "the author Horn thought of the title as being (or even planned to n…
21 Jun 2001, 15:13
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Ach, Roy--he got you! There really =is= an Amanda (McKitterick) Ros, eccentric Irish author (take note, PEACE ethnographers!), and she really did write IRENE IDDESLEIGH (Bookfinde…
13 Jun 2001, 06:42
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Wonders of Urth and Sky (oh, that doesn't count, does it?) from BIBLIOMEN: Arthurs, Kirk Patterson (Ph.D.), MASK AND COIN: GRUB STREET IN THE 30S (1986) " , MAZE OF GREY: JOHN GL…
11 Jun 2001, 20:18
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Nevermind. I withdraw the statement/question. OTOH, it does lead to an interesting notion: what if, instead of a FAQ about a book/series/story, what if there was a position tabul…
01 Jun 2001, 19:52
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To answer alga, Bloom's novel/homage to Arcturus is THE FLIGHT TO LUCIFER. I wish he would write a chapbook about A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS. (Waiting for the next digest to arrive.) …
13 May 2001, 17:25
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Adam wrote about ENGINE SUMMER, including this bit: There is also the obvious metafictional answer: it is not for the angels, nor their city, but only for the reader of ENGINE SUM…
21 Apr 2001, 11:51
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I politely disagree in the most strenuous terms while still allowing for all the spectrum of personal readings. The kick of all the Whorl stuff being written by people who have ne…
01 Mar 2001, 18:21
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Well BMeyer7, as you no doubt recall from the days of GEnie, if not before then, it all boils down to "you like it" or "you don't like it." Case in point: Henry Kaiser, in his rev…
19 Feb 2001, 12:43
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None, alas! Mostly the result of impressions over the previous two books, impressions which seemed confirmed by a first reading of RTTW. I'll try to take notes on the next readin…
16 Feb 2001, 10:24
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Okay, now we're getting somewhere! The narrator must know that he isn't "Silk" (whether this is "oldSilk" or "mainframeSilk" or "litSilk," or some combination thereof, doesn't mat…
15 Feb 2001, 10:18
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While we await Adam's model of Silk-in-Pig and why the narrator should want to have it inside his crowded head, allow me to try again. A different approach, using Adam's previous …
13 Feb 2001, 13:18
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You might think you are being sketchy, but we know exactly what you are talking about. (Here, it is in III, ch. 7.) Yes, some of us sometimes think that the silent man is Palaemo…
12 Feb 2001, 15:03
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Matt asked a lot of questions, and I guess I'm on the desk right now (but maybe we should all agree to make Adam the official answer-man?): Only in the sense that "Terminus Est" i…
11 Feb 2001, 19:01
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Yes, Quetzal's name has a definite connection to the Toltec/Aztec god Quetzalcoatl. (To me at least: I wasn't familiar with the quetzal bird when I first read NIGHTSIDE THE LONG S…
01 Feb 2001, 08:32
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Well, well, mister slow poke! Better read RTTW asap. I thought we hammered out/nailed down the time dilation angle in "Welcome Wombat" message of 7 Sep 97. =mantis= *This is …
31 Jan 2001, 18:15
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Weeell . . . it ain't exactly what you are looking for, but here's "Durra." My rationale is that "green" comes from an Indo-European root that also gives rise to "grass." And the…
04 Jan 2001, 15:11
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Hello Jeff Wilson, Welcome aboard! =mantis=…
04 Jan 2001, 10:52
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It doesn't seem to be possible to post reviews at Amazon.com until after the book has been released. So nothing can be done yet. =mantis= *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gen…
04 Jan 2001, 10:39
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Right, well that's because Kirkus says that you and your ilk are not "mere mortals"! Whoo-hoo! If such a big deal is to be made of the labor, I'm surprised the duct didn't just s…
17 Dec 2000, 13:08
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Good post, Adam! I especially like the idea that A.D. Weer was not involved in the coldhouse prank--in effect, that this is just another "ghost story" within yet another genre fra…
03 Dec 2000, 09:28
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Hey vizcacha! Very nice! I mean, I agree with the argument re: 1914, and the dates all match up--but the angle I find even more exciting is the fact that we have determined that …
20 Nov 2000, 19:25
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Re: the five genres of PEACE, good call Adam! It seems so self-evident after you've said it that it seems surprising that we haven't been using it as a mantra! That part is espec…
31 Oct 2000, 08:49
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No, vizcacha--you are remembering OBW. That family/editorial frametale is conspicuously missing from IGJ, which has very chilling implications (i.e., Horn didn't make it home; his…
30 Oct 2000, 12:29
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Hey Dachshund, Hot Dog! <g> Wow, it is coming so soon--we are so lucky! =mantis= *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.…
27 Oct 2000, 19:55
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Yay, the timeline!! 1918 after May, Den, age 4 visits Dr. Black ("Liberty" magazine = anachronism) There is a bear of a problem, which might be wiggled through (but it sure ain't…
26 Oct 2000, 15:52
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I agree with this very much--one mode of Den I've been toying with is "King of the necropolis"; that he is, in some way, at some level, re-animating the dead around him, to ask the…
25 Oct 2000, 21:36
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"`For all the days until thy time be done, I will have thee serve me as the windlass serves the well or the oar the ship . . . '" I suppose "selflessly" would be better than "sile…
23 Oct 2000, 20:30
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This is the first case of a fairy tale story in PEACE that clearly and obviously relates directly to Den's life: "The Princess..." is parallel to Olivia and her suitors. In brief,…
18 Oct 2000, 16:12
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Yes, there is a Dr. Black in both. Yes, there are certain points of similarity between the two works: a big old house; a woman and her suitors; a boy who is mostly ignored by the …
18 Oct 2000, 07:21
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Well =I= always took it to mean that the people had become rather like "Star Trek" <tm> Vulcans <tm>; favoring "logic" in their culture and erasing "non-logic" (including emotions,…
10 Aug 2000, 14:53
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Not that this is a final answer, of course, bfwiw I thought the allusion was to hashish rather than marijuana. And "hash" is the name of a foodstuff, too. As for the sfnal ration…
28 Jun 2000, 15:01
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Yowie! Looks right to me . . . and since "Evan S." = "Smoky" (and it was probably the too-clever relatives who cooked up "Smoky" directly from "Evan S.") then it would be redundan…
26 Jun 2000, 14:45
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And nobody ever says anything at all about "The Haunted Boardinghouse." I should like to complain. =mantis=…
21 Jun 2000, 13:01
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Adam, quoting and quoted: And I quote: "That [60 years of Q onboard] seemed rather short to me--I would have imagined that such a rise [for Q within church] would require fifteen …
17 Jun 2000, 19:36
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Dan Rabin, Wow, great detective work! I don't recall ever hearing about this difference. Are you going to continue in this vein of textual differences? I vaguely remember some ta…
07 Mar 2000, 13:50
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Ron Hale-Evans and Jim Henley, Thank you both for your kind words. We don't want to clutter up these places with gaming questions and comments, but I'm sure there are other place…
02 Jan 2000, 21:36
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I agree with everything but the last paragraph. I took the situation as meaning that the "scanning" for the Whorl had happened before the slave's head had been removed; thus somet…
13 Dec 1999, 16:24
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Now, as one reader who is obviously guilty of at least some of this "scientism," folks might think that I would be in disagreement with Nick's post--but I'm not, and I suspect that…
01 Nov 1999, 15:24
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Having said that OBW is like the authorized sequel to DON QUIXOTE, and responding in part to questions of motives for the elders of New Viron in choosing Horn for the goose chase, …
07 Oct 1999, 09:49
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vizcacha, Three! Three! Issue number three, I have it in front of me right now, has big green undine holding buff beefcake Sev in cloak and mask on cover; contents covers chapte…
07 Oct 1999, 09:28
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Rostrum, (Where's Jim Jordan =now=?!) <g> While I'm not about to produce an essay on the spot, I might be able to answer the question if it were a tad more specific. Or, better:…
06 Oct 1999, 13:52
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It has been established that Dorcas's family made enamelled crucifixes. Likewise, that the pelerines are a band of Red Cross women (battlefield healers), and they use a cross form …
06 Oct 1999, 09:15
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Odilo--tenth century Abbot of Cluny who established All Souls's Day. A Teutonic name, meaning "rich." Pega--Saint Pega (died 719) was reputed to have cured a man of blindness. Th…
11 Sep 1999, 20:34
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John Bishop, Maybe there is trouble caused by the term "calendar"? That is, if I wrote "Lunar reckoning" rather than "Lunar calendar," would that clear up some of the problems? …
12 Aug 1999, 14:52
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