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No David, saying some fans prefer to discuss certain interps rather than others is not rude. The smiley, thank you Chris, is to indicate that exactly this situation is the case in…
09 Apr 2007, 19:59
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I've always liked this theory, and think it stands at least as well as some of the others proposed and discussed on the board. The response below is very typical. Many of the more…
09 Apr 2007, 08:36
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I much prefer the Hungarian cover... http://tinyurl.com/y5uo48 nastler --- Jesper Svedberg <jsvedberg at gmail.com> skrev:…
24 Nov 2006, 08:51
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--- JWillard <aldenweer at charter.net> skrev: This line is spoken by the leader of the volunteers to Vodalus. Voldalus' connection to the hidden powers is made clear(er) later in…
06 Sep 2006, 07:22
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--- "Roy C. Lackey" <rclackey at stic.net> skrev: I noticed this on the re-read too, the four apprentices are Severian, his "friend" Roche, their "captain" Drotte, and the "boy" E…
06 Sep 2006, 07:10
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--- JWillard <aldenweer at charter.net> skrev: I think this is an interesting idea. Would you be prepared to gather all the comments and edit into a coherant list of observations …
05 Sep 2006, 07:19
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I'm enjoying the reheated discussion about Baldanders and the megatherians. Baldanders as a "kind of baby Abia" is an important theory, but what if he IS Abia? This has been propos…
19 May 2006, 08:32
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Roy, I don't think I have understand the problem with this. he makes his "prophesy" that she will save him from drowning in Gyoll. She searchs "backwards" through his life and me…
09 Apr 2006, 09:53
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Quote suggesting one reason a Christian author might wish to write a universe without relativity. The time scales in the Sun series are extended, but the principle holds. The "news…
07 Apr 2006, 13:33
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Couldn't Silkhorns power here be described as changing the memory of an event (inserting a new memory) through story-telling, rather than to really change the past? Wouldn't this h…
07 Apr 2006, 06:42
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Can anyone tell me a little more about this book? Shadows of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe (Liverpool University Press - Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies) Gene Wolfe, Peter …
17 Mar 2006, 10:48
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http://research.microsoft.com/sendev/project_sensecam.aspx Want to have a memory like Sev? Want to record every day and play it back and forwards again and again any way you want?…
06 Jul 2005, 04:56
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Marc Aramini skrev: You may remember that a while ago I became interested in the idea that Mamelta was Kypris - for several reasons. The first was her black hair and blue eyes - …
06 Jul 2005, 01:08
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Before the old Gnostic argument cycles through again, I'd just like to flag the discovery of the secular nature of Silks enlightenment made by Marc Aramini almost two years ago (10…
24 Jun 2005, 02:24
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Or Hethor... --- James Wynn <thewynns at earthlink.net> skrev:…
03 Jun 2005, 00:53
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Small point; The book 17 Megatherians dosn't go in the sabertache, it stays in the library. The "corrupting" influence on Sev probably comes to him through Thecla, who is a good be…
03 Jun 2005, 00:46
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No-one has yet replied to Andrews exciting post. I have been wishing they would. It states plainly what others have only dared hint at in the archives (for example, marc talked abo…
11 Apr 2005, 06:46
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Batman is a stern father figure (in reality a middle-aged bachelor) and all his enemies are his "sons" who act outrageously (gay?) to attract his attention. He therefore creates an…
23 Mar 2005, 02:31
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Maru said: "I say we see the unreality of Urth and do not condemn the slaying of shadows." I disagree. Urth only seems unreal because we see it through Sev, and he is not well in…
23 Mar 2005, 02:16
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This email is just polite applause from the gallery. After weeks of struggling through discussions on “Ethical Theory”, (interesting but not much of a spectator sport for the layma…
21 Mar 2005, 02:40
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--- Allan Lloyd <allan-lloyd at lineone.net> skrev: > That’s why I like ‘em. Considering one and then the other is like reading a good argument between two Urth list heavy-weights. …
17 Apr 2003, 19:54
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--- ArchD'Ikon Zibethicus <zibethicus at hotmail.com> skrev: > Judgement is maybe too formal a term for what happens in Lanark. But the text does give the impression that an alterna…
17 Apr 2003, 12:56
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I remember thinking that the fact that the Sand Garden was not yet completed was significant. Will Severian (or what he becomes) complete this exhibit?…
15 Apr 2003, 10:40
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Breathlessly mounting his hobby horse Malco adds; And please also consider "Unlikely stories, mostly" EVERYONE should own a copy of "The book of prefaces" --- Jonathan Laidlow <…
15 Apr 2003, 09:43
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Hi Zx, He does say that, but he also admits that although Thaw/Lanark is based on himself they have been altered in various ways in order that the reader will become more attached …
15 Apr 2003, 09:37
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Lanark by Alasdair Gray --- Steve Case <scase at olivet.edu> skrev: > Hey guys, I need some help. I Yahoo! Mail (http://dk.mail.yahoo.com) - Gratis: 6 MB lagerplads, spamfilter og …
14 Apr 2003, 10:22
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I think most people would agree that Wolfe can make his tales deceptively ambiguous, I always feel that most of his stories can easily support many alternative (and often contradic…
29 Dec 2002, 21:51
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Everything is big on Green. Low gravity? Maybe so. However there is another aspect that I don’t believe has been raised here. Oxygen. I was reading New Scientist Dec 14 2002. “You …
29 Dec 2002, 21:49
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Some people on this list are very interested in the role of trees in the Sun books. One of my favourite poems is Hallaig by Sorley MacLean. This poem was written in Scots Gaelic an…
29 Dec 2002, 21:47
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Without HTML codes I try again. At age 15 I read my first Gene Wolfe book from the local town library, a book chosen on account of the cover (a dude dressed in black with a big s…
29 Dec 2002, 21:45
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“Two mothers are just as good as a mother and a father” – Diane Keaton “Really? I always feel most people barely survive one mother.” – Woody Allen Viron has lots, so lets take a q…
29 Dec 2002, 21:28
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Computers are not something I like to think about. I hope this is better now nastler Har du problemer med din hjemmecomputer? Få hjælp med Yahoo!s PC-support på http://dk.shopping…
29 Dec 2002, 21:25
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I think most people would agree that Wolfe can make his tales deceptively ambiguous, I always feel that most of his stories can easily support many alternative (and often contradic…
29 Dec 2002, 21:05
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Everything is big on Green. Low gravity? Maybe so. However there is another aspect that I donât believe has been raised here. Oxygen. I was reading New Scientist Dec 14 2002. â…
29 Dec 2002, 21:01
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Some people on this list are very interested in the role of trees in the Sun books. One of my favourite poems is Hallaig by Sorley MacLean. This poem was written in Scots Gaelic a…
29 Dec 2002, 20:59
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Hullo. First off I would like to say thanks to Rajit in particular and to all those who have contributed to the discussions about Wolfe that Iâve been reading in the archives. …
29 Dec 2002, 20:57
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