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Lest anyone suppose I was joking when I wrote of proud Jonas wanting to awe Jolenta with his repaired shine, the "These Are the Jokes" section of CASTLE OF DAYS offers some suggest…
15 Oct 2002, 17:06
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Ladies and Gentlemen, We have a John Crowley fan, name of Terry D. Scroggin, who lives in Valley View, Republic of Texas. Email tjscoggin at ntin.net He ordered a chapbook and I se…
12 Oct 2002, 04:25
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Rostrum wrote, quoting Roy: I myself have not read the story, either. But Robert J. Sawyer, who wrote the article, seems to be saying (in the entire article) that the competition…
10 Oct 2002, 20:35
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Since I am relatively sure that Roy Lackey does not have a subscription to "The New York Review of Science Fiction," I trust that his recent essay on "Bio bias" was not influenced …
06 Oct 2002, 17:12
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Roy, Interesting post on Bio bias and the potential of disguised chem slavery. Very meaty. The situation of the chems at points comes close to "wage slavery," but even then, the …
05 Oct 2002, 14:58
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Okay, so Roy continues to ask what Jonas would do with Jolenta once he got ahold of her, and he insists that whatever Jonas feels, it ain't "Love." (Or wait: Roy kinda sorta argues…
26 Sep 2002, 16:32
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Jerry Friedman and Roy Lackey disagree with my casting Jonas as wanting to become fully bio. I guess I should have preped my statement with qualifiers, since while I believe "Jona…
25 Sep 2002, 20:17
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I'm not sure what is going on with Jonas, what he means by his intent to become repaired (presumably it means he wants to become fully biological so as to be better suited for Jole…
25 Sep 2002, 17:28
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Now that we're plunging into the question of how many personalities are in/make up Maytera Marble, I'm reminded of the 1970s book and tv movie "Sibyl" that was all about the woman …
24 Sep 2002, 19:20
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I've just read Algis J. Budrys' novel MICHAELMAS [1976]. I have previously read ROGUE MOON, THE THORN OF AMSIR [iirc], SOME WILL NOT DIE, FALLING TORCH, and HARD LANDING. I haven…
21 Sep 2002, 23:55
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The text has it that Jonas was the name given to the crippled sailor after he was fitted with prosthetics, to soften his reception among the humans -- and this works on at least tw…
09 Sep 2002, 21:13
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Hartshorn and Nutria have been talking about Cordwainer Smith and the puzzling mystery of "How can Wolfe not know Smith's work?" and seeming convergent evolution between Wolfe and …
09 Sep 2002, 20:21
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I agree with Nutria. I would also add that, aside from the act of cheating, Hy showed evidence of not loving Silk the way that Silk loved her; furthermore, Silk was wondering if h…
09 Sep 2002, 16:41
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It was mid-afternoon on Thursday when I arrived at ConJose. (As it turned out, Gene Wolfe's first panel of the con was on "Working with Damon Knight" and it was Thursday at 1 -- I…
06 Sep 2002, 23:45
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Well, er, yes and no. If Weer is lying about his age at the time (invalidating the big anchor for the current operating timeline), then the coldhouse death could be his own, just …
26 Aug 2002, 17:59
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Oh dear, we're circumcising the flea again! And here it is my fault, since I do not have a Dickens work in mind that is significantly driven by letters (then again the so-called "…
21 Aug 2002, 22:24
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Granted we do not have as much extra-textual material in the case of the letter as we do with the stories. In part this is what makes it feel like a case where Wolfe is taking off…
21 Aug 2002, 18:59
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Well yes, but these cases of frametale vs. main-tale interaction oddities do not rise to the level of puppetry as proposed in the case of Unicorn Charlie (where Baton and Birkhead …
21 Aug 2002, 16:37
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1) At first Weer seems disturbed that French would tell the reporter about the prank (and we assume we know why: because it is bad news, however old), and French's explanation of h…
20 Aug 2002, 22:48
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If we are considering Charlie Turner as a "unicorn" then we might also consider the ghost of the coldhouse prank as one, too. This immediately makes a lot of sense, really: since …
20 Aug 2002, 19:36
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[snip] To go along with Roy's belief for a moment: there is, I think, a strong sense of disintegrating barriers in the final section of PEACE, climaxing in the voice of Olivia com…
20 Aug 2002, 13:51
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An early Wolfe story (collected in CASTLE OF DAYS), "The Changeling," is set in the same town that the later novel PEACE is set in. While I've always been a big fan of the story, …
18 Aug 2002, 19:35
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IIRC, without seeing the source text again, my impression was quite different. That is, I did not see it as being a case of: astral-Silkhorn is the aquastor Malrubius that Severia…
17 Aug 2002, 01:11
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True; it mainly dates Miss Hadow, I guess. Meanwhile, I've been fixing my sense of sepia. Sepia is not an artifact of aging (i.e., discoloration), it is only a style, one of two …
11 Aug 2002, 05:11
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Ach. Scratch Tilly from the sepia roster. Still, Tilly is connected to the episode by way of his ties to the carnies; Smart is connected by his inheritance of Tilly's business. …
10 Aug 2002, 15:05
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Okay, I found "A Christmas Carol" on Project Guttenberg. Getting spooked as I read it . . . the cold chill of Scrooge recalls the cold house ghost . . . the Ghost of Christmas Pas…
10 Aug 2002, 00:27
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Here is something I wanted to mention before. The photo of the giant and the man: as an advertisement (goes well with the photo of Candy as an advertisement; perhaps fits well wit…
09 Aug 2002, 19:27
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(Oh good, my message got through after all!) Ugh, right -- no photo of Doris, just one of Candy (graphic description of another one of Candy), and the one with the two guys. Wher…
03 Aug 2002, 17:45
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Hello there everybody. Just got an update on WorldCon today. They are about 1000 members below where they were expecting to be at this point (the event starts August 29). It will…
02 Aug 2002, 18:48
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Indeed. We were drawn (or "suckered") into discussing Orwell because blattid expressed incomprehension as to why =anyone= would link Orwell to Ascian Correct Thought. Was blattid…
31 Jul 2002, 23:51
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Hartshorn and I seem to be on the same wavelength, fwiw. I, too, agree that the style is close to Maoism. I don't know if I've been published saying that (I almost certainly talk…
31 Jul 2002, 01:01
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But you =do= mean to exclude all things Orwell from the mix, right? I mean, that is what I heard before, that is what I hear now. That is what I continue to find so puzzling. Hmm…
30 Jul 2002, 03:36
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When it is spelled "New Zealand." Apologies! =mantis=…
29 Jul 2002, 17:53
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Recent talk of Thais as being Severian's daughter, and/or a sailor . . . I thought that Thais was the best candidate for the character "the countessa" in "Eschatology and Genesis.…
29 Jul 2002, 15:40
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In general, yes. But in details, hmmm. I have this theory that most published pieces on NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR (and many readers) see its geopolitical set up as being "World War Tw…
29 Jul 2002, 13:44
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I believe it was blattid who fairly recently complained that he did not grok how or why some people keep saying that the Ascians are "Orwellian" with their Correct Thought when it …
29 Jul 2002, 03:15
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I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of . . . "The Devil His Due" by Robert Borski, at http://www.siriusfiction.com/PaxBorskii.html Come see! Come see! =mantis= …
29 Jul 2002, 01:47
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Right. Further context on my situation: at a new used-book store I happened upon a big collection of "Worlds of If." Since I keep a booklist or two in my wallet, it was easy to l…
19 Jul 2002, 22:38
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O Nacre! I would not have thought of pairing "Spark" and "Ming" (I had not yet paired it with any other story, which might be odd in itself -- don't I reflexively do that sort of …
18 Jul 2002, 20:14
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Update: I saw in the progress report for Con Jose that they are organizing a tour of the fabled Winchester Mystery House. I had not realized that access was so restrictive, I thoug…
18 Jul 2002, 17:26
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I apologize for bringing up the whole "Silk-23" thing. I never intended it to take the place of the "submerged Silk, hidden in plain sight" reading, which I readily admit is much …
18 Jul 2002, 15:31
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Stella timeline: 5 billion years in the future (Sol's lifespan). Gabriel timeline (from Talos's play): 50 million years (geological/evolutionary scale). Wolfe timeline: 1 million…
17 Jul 2002, 20:59
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Whoops. Sorry I wasted both our time. =mantis= Sirius Fiction booklets on Gene Wolfe, John Crowley 30 copies of "Snake's-hands" until OP! http://www.siriusfiction.com/…
17 Jul 2002, 14:06
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No, not exactly. Look, Pig is carrying Silk, right? And has been for some time. Searching for Silk for some time, too. So that whole thing was set in motion some time ago. IIR…
17 Jul 2002, 00:22
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Oh dear, back to this chestnut. Yes, the 97 Kyear figure is _very_ debateable. (For all sorts of reasons. Let a thousand timelines bloom!) But, as far as I am concerned, so is t…
16 Jul 2002, 23:44
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Just in case it is slipping past unnoticed, and at the grave risk of belaboring the obvious: the beauty of putting Silk-23 in to the Horn-in-Silk-body is that the past 20 years are…
16 Jul 2002, 15:39
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I would not deny the planned ambiguity, I would not deny the reading that says it is suspended animation, after all, and thus the time of Typhon's revival is purely a fluke, an aut…
16 Jul 2002, 00:31
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Well, since in this reading I take it as Horn alone who sees Hyacinth dead (Silk-43 being completely gone), it is Horn who sees her. Silk-23 comes later, via the eye transfer; and…
15 Jul 2002, 19:26
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Right, the implication being that the Europeanoids have not been living on that continent long enough to be genetically altered into looking like the red-brown people of Apu-Puncha…
15 Jul 2002, 19:03
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The umpires are the Neighbors, the ones who told dying Horn what they were going to do and then did it. Why "Silk-23": because, rather than get into the slippery religous "soul in…
13 Jul 2002, 03:41
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