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Reply: Item #6599662 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# John, "Gene Wolfe's THE SHADOW OF THE TORTURER" graphic novel in six issues by Innovation, 1991. Innovative Corp., Wheelin…
18 Jun 1997, 20:45
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Reply: Item #4687542 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Was there a comment before about some spot in the text that says inhumi are only as intelligent as dogs? I think I remembe…
17 Jun 1997, 21:31
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Reply: Item #8302641 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# Nutria, Sounds interesting--get to work! =mantis=…
17 Jun 1997, 02:20
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Reply: Item #2233021 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# cephalothorax, Welcome back. Let's see, you wrote: "Wolfe's women do seem to have a kind of limited repertoire: the Stand…
16 Jun 1997, 20:13
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Reply: Item #6089883 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET03# Deborah, Hello there and welcome aboard! In truth, the Urth list is really sort of "everything by Wolfe except for THE BOO…
16 Jun 1997, 03:47
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Reply: Item #7331328 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# alga, Thanks for that interview with Hartwell! Yikes, it is interview city for Gene Wolfe--on Friday he was slated to b…
15 Jun 1997, 17:38
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Here they are, the Answers to the trainload of questions. Without any further preamble -- 1. "Who or what is Oreb?" Oreb is a night chough. 2. "What is his [Wolfe's] attraction…
14 Jun 1997, 21:15
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Reply: Item #5308829 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# If I remember right, Father Brown has a criminal sidekick for a few early stories, named Flammbeaux or something like that (a…
14 Jun 1997, 00:01
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Reply: Item #0907478 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# Geoff, IMHO it isn't a stupid question, but yeah, it is hard not to feel stupid in asking almost any question. Wolfe's a…
12 Jun 1997, 21:20
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Reply: Item #0140781 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Jason, Well "sinister" could also be non-Weer related; like the (al-)chemist who helps turn normal people into circus freak…
12 Jun 1997, 20:57
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Reply: Item #2522919 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET03# Jason, FWIW, in that recent People Online Chat, Wolfe seemed to say that Weer was not a mass murderer. Which would appear …
11 Jun 1997, 14:11
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Reply: Item #9645979 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET03# Rostum, The "light outside" is LAKE ch. 10, last page. "Craning his neck to look behind him, he saw a thin crescent of bl…
11 Jun 1997, 00:47
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Reply: Item #4728612 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Michael Richman, Yes, the restarting of the long sun was at maximum power, which is what set the fig tree on fire . . . or…
09 Jun 1997, 06:37
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Reply: Item #2076850 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Nutria, "Michael" is one of the masks that Russario, fiendish imp, dons when I'm not looking. "Bluesberry Jam" is in SPACE…
09 Jun 1997, 06:21
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Reply: Item #5437321 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# Nutria, "Urth-Man Extraordinary" (a working bibliography of Gene Wolfe) is available in Canada (and her renegade souther…
07 Jun 1997, 14:44
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Reply: Item #0562550 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Rostrum, Welcome aboard! I'll try to answer a few of your questions, let's see . . . Re: light of ship's engines. Hmmm. …
06 Jun 1997, 16:34
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Reply: Item #6824766 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Michael Richman, What you say about =Quetzal's= repairs of =Hammerstone= seems odd (since I mainly remember Auk using the …
06 Jun 1997, 06:14
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Transcript of the fabled People Online chat . . . Yay! Finally! I got mine--neat stuff--waiting for everybody else to get their own! =mantis=…
04 Jun 1997, 14:31
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Reply: Item #4111204 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# Ron Crown, I'm happy to have helped out and find myself quite impressed that you already possess the artifacts (after al…
02 Jun 1997, 21:15
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Reply: Item #7958559 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# (Note to Ranjit: the original message quoted by Ron Crown and Charles Dye [raster] never arrived in my mailbox [to best of …
01 Jun 1997, 19:10
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Reply: Item #6419145 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# Ron Crown, Welcome aboard! Good points re: voided cross (especially since I agree with you!). I'm happy to learn that …
30 May 1997, 19:53
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Reply: Item #2671081 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# cephalothorax, Needlesstosay, I'm quite pleased that you are enjoying the Lexicon. You asked about Sev Sleeper waking up th…
30 May 1997, 19:53
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Reply: Item #5008537 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# cephalothorax, Thank you for your interest in "GURPS Book of the New Sun"! As for how it is going as a project, the two easy…
28 May 1997, 19:43
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Reply: Item #5934954 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# Matthew Freestone, Ah, you caught the NOVELTY that I missed. I thought of it only after I'd sent, thought of sending an…
27 May 1997, 20:22
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Reply: Item #4579959 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Lasrach, Re: the alien vampire critters, as we are told there is a "hooded" variety (cobra-like) there is also the suggest…
26 May 1997, 17:49
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Reply: Item #0244852 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# All right--Geoff comes through! (Somebody from "here" got through to "there" and came back.) Re: Timeline of 1000 to 2000 yea…
23 May 1997, 21:34
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Reply: Item #1294106 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# cephalothorax, Yes, I was just thinking I ought to post something about the questions that went out. 1. Re: Oreb, Patric…
18 May 1997, 21:51
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Reply: Item #5505781 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# cehphalothorax, I think your number two is closer. But by "hierodule's ship" you seem to be referring only to the flying…
18 May 1997, 21:51
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Reply: Item #0292489 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Jason, The Chinese Egg, huh? Hmmm. That's interesting and leads to subtle interpretations. I myself was thinking more of…
17 May 1997, 23:44
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Reply: Item #0241435 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# alga, I was just over at the People Online area and it looks like transcripts are available from there, to answer your questi…
17 May 1997, 20:42
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Reply: Item #7482131 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Hey wow! Wolfe himself online! How long are they going to keep him there, I wonder--how many questions can he answer in a…
17 May 1997, 18:54
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Reply: Item #1140034 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Yikes, all these last minute dashers! Shall we officially start up the next list of questions, in order of questions receive…
17 May 1997, 03:25
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Reply: Item #2253913 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Attention! Attention! The train has left the station. Last onboard was alga, overloaded with boxes--I won't say yet whic…
16 May 1997, 17:47
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Reply: Item #8311763 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Joel, Slow down a second. You've truncated my point: I didn't write "earliest days of the White Fountain," I wrote "earlie…
16 May 1997, 01:07
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Reply: Item #2110674 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Rick Marx, Welcome aboard and thanks for the question! (Heh-heh . . . this =is= going to be fun.) =mantis=…
15 May 1997, 23:06
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Reply: Item #3615878 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Reef and Tercel, Got the questions. Thanks. =mantis=…
15 May 1997, 22:47
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Reply: Item #4926427 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# Nutria, To tell true, you made me laugh that first time--I mean, isn't the first typo on the toc?! But still, as a micro…
15 May 1997, 22:47
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Reply: Item #9272096 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Jason, Well no, I haven't solved all the mysteries. And as you've probably noticed, the "solutions" I do have tend to be p…
15 May 1997, 05:37
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Reply: Item #4900689 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Joel, Yep, that sounds about right. <g> (But "earliest days of humans on Urth" should be "earliest days of White Fountain …
14 May 1997, 22:01
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Reply: Item #3409186 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# vizcacha, Re: aquastor question, oh good! <g> Re: Gene Wolfe's whiskers. I first saw 'em at World Fantasy Con in Balti…
14 May 1997, 21:49
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Reply: Item #8567332 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Nutria, Re: Broken Mirrors and typos. While not denying what you wrote, we are to cut some slack for BM because: (1) it r…
14 May 1997, 21:49
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Reply: Item #9662929 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# M. Gallo, LETTERS HOME is just that--the letters Gene Wolfe wrote home while he was in Korea during the Korean War. Some w…
14 May 1997, 05:42
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Make that three questions (if we count the four as one <g>). I was so busy laughing over "cephalothorax" that I lost track of things. =mantis=…
13 May 1997, 20:43
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Lasrach, Good question--we'll count it as one. Patrick, You're right of course, the question is like a haiku. Plus, if you expect Gene Wolfe to answer, "He's a Bird. Next," the…
13 May 1997, 19:53
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Reply: Item #5465735 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Patrick, Thanks for the first question! (I suspect Gene Wolfe might answer this question as worded by just mentioning the…
13 May 1997, 02:35
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Attention ladies and gentlemen, lurkers and larkers, et cetera, et ali, and all ships at sea. In my regular correspondence with Gene Wolfe I asked him if he would have the time fo…
12 May 1997, 20:30
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Reply: Item #9570055 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Jason Voegele, Welcome aboard! Re: Wolfe's "solipsistic tendency," I'm pretty sure I know what you mean (even though I'll …
12 May 1997, 15:12
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Reply: Item #7420072 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# Joel, Re: your notes on the mechanics of augury ("ars augurium"?), you've opened a can of worms--good stuff. That is, I a…
09 May 1997, 17:58
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Reply: Item #5191086 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00# bee, The F&SF (Oct/Nov '96) story is "The Man in the Pepper Mill," which IMHO harkens back to "The Island of Doctor Death a…
08 May 1997, 16:38
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Reply: Item #0985746 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# (Whoops. I said "TO LOVE FOREVER" was listed in front of PLANET OF ADVENTURE; I was mistaken--it is listed in Vance's mos…
08 May 1997, 16:04
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