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Mark - Thanks for the interesting explication of this curious short short story (I hadn't encountered it before). In your review, you allude to some Lewis Carroll allusion in TBOT…
26 Jan 2015, 23:23
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Andrew Mason> Neal Stephenson's _Anathem_ is reminiscent of _New Sun_ in a number of ways, so much so that once, having momentarily forgotten the name of its hero, I found myself…
15 Jun 2014, 02:10
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My reading is quite the contrary one. We are told that the wildlife cannot "hear" or "scent" Severian as he watches them through the mausloeum window, though some animals come "tw…
20 Dec 2013, 17:01
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Or could it be the opposite: two clones have been released, and three are still yet to be awakened/activated. In this novel, an empty coffin may very well signify resurrection rath…
20 Dec 2013, 01:38
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I don't disagree with this statement at all (in fact I'm very fond of it), and I certainly think you and I are on the same page (and not just literally page 12 of Shadow!) -- but i…
19 Dec 2013, 03:33
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Thanks, etonio, I assure you I am the pedestrian on this street! I don't have any idea why someone would store clones inside coffins in a time-dislocated mausoleum.* I admit it m…
18 Dec 2013, 22:08
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Thanks, Larry -- Druissi's eight Severians theory is a bit opaque. It seems that Severians Four, Seven, and Eight are the same Severian, and Severians Three and Five are not Sever…
15 Dec 2013, 02:17
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_______________________________________________ No, Borski's navigator chapter is awful. It is the saint, Brendan the Navigator, not JFK. Wolfe does way more mythological and re…
05 Apr 2013, 13:50
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I agree it is unlikely that Ethel Rosenberg's forebrain was ritualistically consumed by fellow Soviet-sympathizers, and certainly not with the same results as the consumption of Th…
04 Apr 2013, 23:53
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