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Well right, there is the question of what Charlie's motives are and whether Charlie and Weer are on the same page, as it were. As we've discussed before, it sure seems like Charli…
04 Aug 2002, 16:25
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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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Roy wrote against the notion of Doris-as-daughter-of-Sherry-Gold. So Roy, remind me: is it still possible that Doris is Sherry Gold herself? Whoops, no -- I guess not, since you a…
02 Aug 2002, 19:20
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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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But Adam, the passage you quote refers quite specifically to 1949! The sentence before says before mid-century; the sentence after says that Eastasia only emerged after another de…
31 Jul 2002, 20:22
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Whoops. Corrections to follow. That should be: "x" is to "the Just Man" as "Theseus" is to "The Tale of the Student and His Son" and/or as "Romulus and Remus" is to "The Tale of …
31 Jul 2002, 19:38
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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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Nope, not in the text I read. If you can find it again, please tell. (Perhaps you are mistakenly thinking of URTH and the era of Apu Punchau.) You don't have to believe it. Ther…
17 Jul 2002, 13:50
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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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I'm confused by the term "Silk-in-Horn" in this context. I would say, in this case and this reading, that it is "Horn-in-Silk" who is still quixotically looking for "Silk" (quixot…
16 Jul 2002, 19:16
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Hello there Dave Baird, and welcome aboard! Yay, an easy question! 1) THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN 2) THE URTH OF THE NEW SUN 3) THE BOOK OF THE LONG SUN (four volumes) 4) THE BOOK OF…
16 Jul 2002, 17:31
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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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The mantis/nutria loop: That is a somewhat thornier question than the easier one I thought I was addressing. The short answer is that it has to do with what blattid was working o…
15 Jul 2002, 22:41
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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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Ah, but we are talking =biological= life here, not VR life in Mainframe. And I'm sure you will agree that Typhon, the biological pre-form of Pas, is long dead by the time of Silk; …
15 Jul 2002, 18:43
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Andrew Bollen asked about: As the others have already answered, the others are presumed to be his biological parents. Now, as to the rest of the same question: who are they, them…
15 Jul 2002, 17:27
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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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While we have pondered "did he or didn't he?" over years past, and will do so into the future, still I think we can all agree that it is ambiguous. Likewise I'm reasonably sure th…
12 Jul 2002, 23:28
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Josh Geller asked: I haven't heard of that one, unless you mean "The Game in the Pope's Head" (or less likely, "How the Bishop Sailed to Inniskeen"). The first is in RIPPER!, an …
17 Jun 2002, 19:33
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TAKE MY ADVICE is a book of letters from people, advice to younger generations. The advice-givers are from a fairly wide spectrum. Gene Wolfe has a letter in there. The book is …
03 Jun 2002, 00:31
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So we posit a technocratic solution, a human-to-inhumi blood bank. Foster dependence, or codify the biological to nullify the unpleasant while accepting the unchangeable. Somehow…
31 May 2002, 18:04
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There does not seem to be any objection to the basic notion of "Wolfe-lite," nor to the placing of PANDORA BY HOLLY HOLLANDER as the ultimate example of Wolfe-lite. The contrast t…
30 May 2002, 17:40
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Stone Ox wrote Oh, okay. Just be sure to mention your variant reading upfront so we can avoid unnecessary tail-chasing. So Sherry's death triggers Weer's wandering? No, just a …
29 May 2002, 21:41
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William, the sentence I quoted seems rather loaded to me: "revelatory message," "makes me see the light," "any attempts so far." It practically throws down a gauntlet. All togeth…
28 May 2002, 17:51
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Thank you for giving us this example. It seems that you disliked URTH on first read because it seemed jumbled, pointless, and/or it did not add anything to your reading of TBOTNS.…
27 May 2002, 14:25
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Thank you for the example. This must be a fairly common experience for Wolfe-readers: the reader, through talking with other readers, through reading lit crit from John Clute and …
26 May 2002, 20:52
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In writing once again (no doubt seen for the first time by many) about his disappointment in TBOSS, William Ansley writes: Ah! I will steer clear of the more irritating aspects o…
26 May 2002, 14:07
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My understanding is that it is pronounced "THEH-kluh," not "THUH-klah" or "THEE-klah." (Those "th" sounds might even be different, voiced vs. unvoiced, but I can't hear it right n…
24 May 2002, 18:19
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WorldCon 2002, in San Jose' California. August 29 to September 2. Gene Wolfe intends to be there. I just sent in my check, so I'll be there. Anybody else around here planning on…
24 May 2002, 17:48
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Interesting thread. In genre terms, it seems to me that Gene Wolfe is working off of (or in the same vein as) Blish's A CASE OF CONSCIENCE, but keeping to that work's strong first…
23 May 2002, 19:10
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Stone Ox wrote in detail about the death of Mr. Tilly in PEACE. Instead of addressing the whole, which looks quite sound, I only have a few tidbits at the moment. No, my understa…
22 May 2002, 15:31
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Adam Stephanides asked me to name the titles to my atomic-scale reviews. THE FOUR JOHNS is the one that is "screamingly good until it completely blows out (alas!)"; THE MADMAN TH…
21 May 2002, 15:44
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No, hartshorn/Quartet are right (agreeing with Scribners hc), Ace is in error (add that one to the "Many Pink Butterflies" instead of "Mary Pink Butterflies" error). Scribners hc:…
21 May 2002, 15:21
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Oh, gentle vs. vicious. Right--"gentle"! (I was thinking gentle as subtle, underplayed, etc. All of which is also part of Vance's range . . . but the novels in question are a ta…
20 May 2002, 19:18
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