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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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"Hour of Trust" is the short story in THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR DEATH AND OTHER STORIES AND OTHER STORIES. Spoilers to follow. I'm not certain but I'm pretty sure that Kali worshipers…
01 Feb 2002, 00:29
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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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Well . . . in general, maybe; in specifics, not exactly. That is to say, the example we have in the text (URTH), is that the Ship sails out of the Briah universe and into the (pre…
07 Jan 2002, 01:26
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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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We are told that Gene Wolfe's Tolkien essay was written for that book of essays on Tolkien, but it was not published there after all, and was published in "Interzone." Following t…
04 Jan 2002, 22:14
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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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Hello there Andy Robertson, Welcome aboard! Thank you for getting permission to post the essay on your website, and for posting the essay. (And for telling us about it!) It see…
04 Jan 2002, 16:25
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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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Thanks Sunanda! Joel Sieh also caught this and I thought he and I had posted to the list! Here is my quote and response to him. Addendum: we both arrived independently at the not…
15 Dec 2001, 15:43
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Oh, one more thing! This isn't a New Sun tie-in. The love interest in TPM is tortured off-stage (by a fellow who likes pain himself and likes to inflict it, too). As a result of…
15 Dec 2001, 01:25
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Before I lose the trace thoughts alltogether, I should mention a few notes on THE PARADOX MEN. (I did ask Damien Broderick, and sure enough, he has read TPM, but to my surprise he…
15 Dec 2001, 00:01
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Recent Gene Wolfe item not mentioned here (iirc): An interview in magazine "Black Gate." =mantis= Sirius Fiction Has Moved To http://www.siriusfiction.com/…
07 Dec 2001, 18:34
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Hey, that was ranjit!! Hello there, ranjit! Hooray! =mantis=…
07 Dec 2001, 05:55
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In the 40s/50s, Charles L. Harness wrote a long work eventually known as THE PARADOX MEN. Recently I read this novel for the first time. Right now I'm looking for folks around he…
01 Dec 2001, 18:20
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Jerry Friedman wrote I finally asked over on the Whorl side and Rostrum pointed me toward ON BLUE'S WATERS, p. 51. "In addition [to Scleroderma's account], there was a man in Urb…
30 Oct 2001, 11:53
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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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Over on the Urth side we were working again on the Invisible Library project. So among all the other texts-within-the-text, we were talking about Scleroderma's "Book of the Long Su…
30 Oct 2001, 09:42
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Oops. Blaine is not the forger, Louis Gold is the forger of THE LUSTY LAWYER by "Amanda Ros": so should the pseudo-author be '"Amanda Ros" (Louis Gold)'? It is an accent over the…
25 Oct 2001, 15:53
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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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"The New York Review of Science Fiction" (issue Number 158, October 2001) has an essay by Robert Borski, "Khaibits and Other Shadows: Looking for Severa in THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN.…
16 Oct 2001, 07:40
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In light of today's terrible attack on Manhattan, some of us were concerned about our dear alga, aka Alice Turner. She is okay, I'm happy to report. But we also worry about our o…
11 Sep 2001, 14:46
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_Thrust_ was a fanzine, which then was renamed _Quantum_, and then ceased publication. The remark in question was made by Gene Wolfe himself, as reported in the interview publishe…
05 Sep 2001, 14:57
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Travel back through time--Today! Note that the compression is based on average speed, not peak speed. This implies, I think, a flight profile Boost/Glide/Boost. I compared a num…
04 Sep 2001, 09:15
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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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In light of this year's "Planet of the Apes" fiasco (hey, you all know me, I'm rabidly against remakes--and I was never a huge fan of the Apes franchise, either--so I was quite opp…
21 Aug 2001, 13:18
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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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Here's another bit of trivia that I've stumbled upon in correspondence with Gene Wolfe. Maybe someone can use it as an inspiration to write about Gene Wolfe and genre mysteries? …
15 Aug 2001, 15:47
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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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Hey gang, Recently the discussion of alternate history touched on Hitler, and the question of "what if a less irrational/idealistic/insane leader had led Germany into WWII and bey…
11 Aug 2001, 17:44
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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 had a conversation with Gene Wolfe a few years ago now, and we got the important topic over with quickly and then just chatted about things that were of more interest and more im…
03 Aug 2001, 13:50
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I read in the paper this morning that sf author Poul Anderson died of illness on Tuesday at his home in Orinda. =mantis=…
03 Aug 2001, 12:49
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Roy, We did talk about this before, but it may be too time-consuming to review it. IIRC, I brought up many of the questions you are raising now. Buried on grounds of estate, etc…
17 Jul 2001, 16:27
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Here's another thought on the reading of the coldhouse prank. A reading that Weer is directly responsible for the prank would seem to be at odds with a "Purgatory" reading of the …
15 Jul 2001, 19:35
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Hello Dan, and welcome. We did talk about this a lot before, but the search engine might not be able to help (since it was all in the still-open volume?). There is no solid conse…
12 Jul 2001, 16:43
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I think that Bobby Black seems so real because his episode comes very early in the text (we have nothing to test it against), and the events around the accident are quite detailed …
11 Jul 2001, 11:11
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Allow me to expand upon that. We read the coldhouse story. Because of the context of the larger novel, and because it is spooky, we sense that Weer is scared. Because of the con…
10 Jul 2001, 09:59
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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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Actually she asks "Where is my husband?" This doesn't entirely invalidate what you are saying:they are still talking about existence (either living vs. dead; animate vs. inanimate…
29 Jun 2001, 14:16
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Hey look! Robert Borski has reactivated the map section of "Cave Canum"! (For a long time there was a space there, but no content. I'd given him some photocopies of original ske…
29 Jun 2001, 09:37
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