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Eco and Wolfe were born only eight months apart -- you can imagine them both simultaneously poring excitedly over their newly-acquired translated Borges, in their respective univ…
24 Jun 2008, 09:38
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Indeed -- the maze that concealed Rosamund was supposedly at Woodstock. Whether this is more likely to be the narrator of A Solar Labyrinth subtly misleading us, or Wolfe making …
23 Jun 2008, 10:31
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Interesting suggestion! Moses was also an abandoned infant, a killer, and (in Jewish tradition) highly sexually active. I think this fits a lot better than the Father-Inire-as-Mo…
06 Jun 2008, 07:54
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The main extra connotation is that Urth is the name of one of the Norns -- Verthandi and Skuld being the others: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norns Mo # ~ # ~ # WolfeWiki http…
24 Apr 2008, 17:59
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I'm hosting and administering it, but most of the contribution so far has been by Dan'l, Matt and Stone Ox (all of this list). It certainly is very incomplete -- the bibliography…
07 Nov 2007, 09:01
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The wiki has a (slightly!) more comprehensive list of Wolfe's stories available online: http://www.holkar.net/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=WolfeWiki.OnlineStories best, Mo # ~ # ~ # W…
24 Sep 2007, 09:14
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Don't we all? I wonder whether Island of Doctor Death in particular represents a playing-out of tension in Wolfe's influences between Wells and Lewis. Lewis supposedly admired W…
05 Sep 2007, 07:59
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And was first published in Analog (or "All New and Logical, Original Games" as it internally refers to it), in 1973. Mo…
06 Aug 2007, 08:37
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Hi Aaron (and anyoen else who's thinking the same), That's great! I guess a good place to dive in might be to start working through the individual stories and novels with which y…
25 Jul 2007, 17:12
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Not at all hard -- at the moment, while knowledge of the wiki is limited to members of this list, we're allowing anyone who wants to sign up as a contributor: http://www.holkar.n…
24 Jul 2007, 20:44
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Hi all, Just a quick update on how things are going over at WolfeWiki. I hope Dan'l won't mind me singling him out for having done some terrific work sorting, systematizing and …
23 Jul 2007, 19:06
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That's very kind of him! I've now downloaded a copy to read myself, and would be very happy to put it up onto WolfeWiki if his permission can be sought and obtained, Mo…
10 Jul 2007, 15:32
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Ah, sorry, I misunderstood. I'll mail you from that address now so you can just respond to that message, best wishes, Mo…
08 Jul 2007, 10:55
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I just clicked the link included below, and it worked fine for me -- anyone else having any problems? If not, likely some temporary curiosity of the servers -- worth trying again…
07 Jul 2007, 20:12
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Sorry, the instructions are kind of tucked away: http://www.holkar.net/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Admin.Editing Basically, tell me the username and password you want, and I'll add you a…
07 Jul 2007, 10:06
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It'd be great to have you involved! There's certainly plenty to do, even in the current limited scope. I prefer to think of myself as the shipowner in a remote (and pleasantly h…
04 Jul 2007, 20:41
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I assumed that too, although it would be good to know which river it is, as there might be some particular legend associated with its spirit, Mo…
28 Jun 2007, 21:24
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It seems to me that this sort of thing is a good use for a wiki page. I know there's a load of stuff about it in the list archives, but searching that for concrete information ca…
28 Jun 2007, 18:04
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A more familiar reference might be to Rumpelstiltskin, who spins straw into gold for the miller's daughter in exchange for (he hopes) her first-born child. I'm also picking up r…
27 Jun 2007, 09:28
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Unfortunately I'm not able to install MediaWiki on my hosting, because of the specific MySQL requirements it makes: so if that's a sine qua non, I'll have to withdraw my offer. …
21 Jun 2007, 11:20
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"Madadh" is Gaelic for "dog". So Rex von Madadh ~= king of the dogs. Von Madadh must in some sense embody the spirit of Sally's dead dog Rexy, or is a fay posing as it. Rexy was …
20 Jun 2007, 08:20
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Sons of Scoloti = Scythians (or possibly some subdivision thereof), Mo Mo Holkar Undying King Games mo at ukg.co.uk http://www.ukg.co.uk…
30 Nov 2006, 16:58
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Apologies if this has been covered before -- I had a hunt through the archives, but couldn't see any reference to it. Has anyone read the recent Robert Borski, The Long and the S…
03 Nov 2006, 10:03
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Mmm... I've never found that a psychologically convincing explanation for this particular aspect of his writing (although clearly the missing-twin theme does emerge elsewhere). I…
19 Oct 2006, 09:08
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I am not such a person, unfortunately... but I think it's interesting to compare Wolfe in this respect with another of my favourite SF writers, Philip Dick. In much of Dick's mat…
18 Oct 2006, 10:28
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Mm, although I suspect that's in the category of "Last movie I went to see was Alien... the two women in it talk to each other about the monster." Mo…
17 Oct 2006, 09:01
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I think a reader dead set on avoiding misogyny would have to avoid quite a lot of Wolfe's work. In my case it's something I put up with for the sake of the rest of the writing, b…
16 Oct 2006, 20:12
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Not to forget "Death of the Island Doctor"! Mo…
16 Oct 2006, 14:02
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I guess this process is the opposite of retconning (retroactively creating / changing historical continuity, as is popular in the comics world). "Foreconning" maybe? Mo…
08 Sep 2006, 12:05
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Mm, I picked up on that too. Perhaps a synthesis of that passage with the one about coming not in peace but with a sword. I guess that may be part of what he means when he says …
07 Sep 2006, 20:34
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Sorry to be coming to this late, but just as a point of pedantry, only female (worker) bees are sterile -- I think that male bees are invariably fully sexed. And I think I would…
29 Aug 2006, 15:50
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I think the point was though that Wolfe relishes and draws on the oddities and fantasies of Herodotus, which may be dismissed as unhistorical by modern scholars. So Herodotus may…
09 Aug 2006, 13:55
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Merryn: "The Mother has told us that his name means the Head of Day." Is it generally accepted that the Apu-Punchau episode takes place in Earth's 'real' Inca period, rather than…
10 Jul 2006, 08:25
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