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Daniel, thanks for your remarks--in a nutshell, yes, the Robinson books are eminently worth reading, the Dante parallels could do with a lot of expansion (how about it?), and the i…
09 Apr 2001, 09:51
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Adam, thanks for putting the other side’s views so plainly and firmly. I’ll respond to your points serially. Adam: “My immediate reaction is that I don't believe Wolfe is a utopia…
09 Apr 2001, 01:25
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I think part of the difficulty list members like alga and William Ansley have had in accepting RTW stems from the fact that they haven't had sufficient time to digest the Short Sun…
08 Apr 2001, 00:56
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Re Wolfe's remarks in that SFBC catalogue: beware Genes bearing gifts. The idea that Horn/Silk's astral self is the ghost of Malrubius is very creaky, in flagrant contradiction of …
29 Mar 2001, 23:33
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I haven't finished RTW yet, but a couple of topical impressions: 1) The physical impossibility of the godling: I saw this as a deliberate breach of SF protocols by GW. The godling…
18 Feb 2001, 00:41
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Adam Stephanides wrote: "IIRC, at one point in TBOTLS Kypris (or somebody) offers to upload Silk into Mainframe, where he would become a god and be linked somehow to Pas (I forget…
08 Feb 2001, 00:10
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From what I've heard about RETURN TO THE WHORL, I was quite correct in my earlier, IGJ-based assumption that the Whorl novels chronologically precede THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN in GW'…
04 Feb 2001, 09:50
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Millennium UK has now released its edition of SWORD AND CITADEL, the second half of THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN. The cover is again by Jim Burns, in my opinion quite an acceptable trea…
14 Jan 2001, 02:21
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So far, the only review of RTW online is that foolish PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY denunciation, on barnesandnoble.com. Can't people who have read RTW already consider placing positive revie…
04 Jan 2001, 02:05
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Could it be that the giant on the cover of RTW is Quadrifons? Alga will no doubt disappoint me, though...…
01 Jan 2001, 11:37
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As I take my user name from the Vance story involved, I should comment on this Vance DYING EARTH cover matter. In the very last Dying Earth story, "Morreion" in RHIALTO THE MARVELL…
14 Dec 2000, 05:45
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At last, word from someone who's read RETURN TO THE WHORL (proximity to David Hartwell has its advantages, eh, Kevin...) Two questions, Kevin: 1) How do you rate RTW, both in the…
28 Nov 2000, 02:33
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I recently asked David Hartwell whether RETURN TO THE WHORL concludes the Urth/Whorl Cycle definitively. This is all he would say: "My response, not from knowledge but intuition, …
12 Sep 2000, 01:16
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Something that hasn't attracted much comment as yet is the simple question: why, thematically speaking, does Wolfe include a crossover to Urth in IN GREEN'S JUNGLES, and, apparentl…
07 Sep 2000, 07:08
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I've just read Wolfe's new story "Pocketsful of Diamonds" in Ed Kramer's anthology STRANGE ATTRACTION. It's a wonderful piece of writing, very atmospheric, very cunning; it seems t…
04 Sep 2000, 04:37
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Another casual observation: has anyone else perceived a close resemblance between the Soldo/Blanko war and the Korean War, in which Wolfe of course participated? Authoritarian Nort…
22 Aug 2000, 13:37
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Do any others share my impression that Wolfe wishes us to equate the City of the Inhumi with Nessus? Are they congruent in being accursed?…
22 Aug 2000, 00:54
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Drawing on a remark John Clute made a few days ago: are we sure of the fate of those inhumi who, however long ago, ingested Neighbor blood and thus became equal to the Neighbors in…
22 Aug 2000, 00:52
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Yesterday I relayed the gist of the list's reactions to the "Clute Revelation" to Clute himself (if in so doing I misrepresented anyone's viewpoint, I apologise). Below is what Clu…
17 Aug 2000, 08:12
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Earlier today I asked John Clute to clarify or substantiate his speculation as to Horn being an inhumu; this is his reply: 1) My guess that Horn/Silk _might_ be an inhumu, as we…
16 Aug 2000, 11:10
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SF WEEKLY has just published John Clute's review of IN GREEN'S JUNGLES, and (among other remarks of interest) Clute declares that it is "reasonably clear" that Horn/Silk is himself…
15 Aug 2000, 18:42
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Ian Smith: the trees. I could not see him, it was too dark to see anything. But I knelt beside him, and lay my head upon his knee, and he comforted me." (OBW p.378)> encounter, b…
01 Aug 2000, 05:41
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One important clue to why IGJ starts out in a different, much more positive mood than Horn was in at the end of OBW can be found, naturally enough, in Chapter 1 of IGJ: the encount…
01 Aug 2000, 01:48
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I've mentioned this before, but now that many people have read IGJ, perhaps I can get more comment: I strongly believe that Horn's visit to Nessus takes place at the same time as t…
24 Jul 2000, 08:11
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RETURN TO THE WHORL is scheduled by Tor for publication in February 2001 (i.e. the second half of January). Not so long to wait.…
23 Jul 2000, 21:53
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The site I help edit, INFINITY PLUS (http://www.infinityplus.co.uk), is currently featuring a story by and long interview with Mary Gentle, whose work echoes John Crowley's in many…
03 Jul 2000, 03:35
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One more non-spoiling advance comment on IN GREEN'S JUNGLES: admirers of Wolfe's technique of embedding stories will like this book very much.…
11 Jun 2000, 02:55
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LOCUS ONLINE indicates that RETURN TO THE WHORL is coming out surprisingly early--in February 2001. So, what with IGJ out late next month, this list may resume its former animated …
07 Jun 2000, 01:55
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A Californian correspondent states the following, which is news to me. Any information? "There is a Wolfe autobiographical essay in the "Gale Contemporary Authors' Series" or some…
12 May 2000, 03:06
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Important correction from Jonathan Laidlow to my and alga's recent postings on my online articles:…
06 May 2000, 03:17
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For completists: according to the LOCUS Index for 1999, Wolfe published a new short story called "How I Got Three Zip Codes" in Mike Ashley (ed), THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF SERIOUSLY COMI…
30 Apr 2000, 19:04
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A small note in view of the Crowley craze: it appears that the third Aegypt novel, DAEMONOMANIA, is finally appearing this year--review copies are beginning to circulate, as mantis…
26 Apr 2000, 18:47
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I should have said in my previous post that Swallow has FIVE visitors--Chenille is also present, of course. And she's unlike the others in being a person who was naturally "designe…
20 Apr 2000, 12:14
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One of the more problematic passages in THE BOOK OF THE LONG SUN occurs in Chapter 7 of EXODUS, “The Brown Mechanics”. Why did Wolfe include such a long demonstration of the proces…
20 Apr 2000, 06:01
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Has anyone on this list tried to picture exactly how Wolfe intends an inhumu (or inhuma) to look in its undisguised state? Various zoological parallels are suggested by Horn, IIRC …
14 Apr 2000, 11:54
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For news of GW's next series--a New Sun/Star Trek crossover starting with HE'S DEAD, SEVERIAN--see today's "Locus Online Buys Simon & Schuster" entry on LOCUS ONLINE (www.locusmag.…
31 Mar 2000, 22:00
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Apropos comments by Thomas Jeenicke on "No Planets Strike": the situation of the humans versus the Sidhe was, I think, Wolfe's dry run for the human/inhumi conflict in the later TH…
29 Mar 2000, 13:07
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Just to fill out Jesper's information about Millennium's Fantasy Masterworks Series, here's their full 2000 schedule: March: Lord Dunsany, TIME AND THE GODS (584-page collection) …
26 Mar 2000, 23:31
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If anyone's interested, my own rather belated review of ON BLUE'S WATERS is available online on the reviews page of INFINITY PLUS (http://www.infinityplus.co.uk).…
25 Mar 2000, 03:14
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Millennium has just released the first half of THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN in the UK under the title SHADOW AND CLAW, as the leadoff title in their Fantasy Masterworks series; SWORD AN…
23 Mar 2000, 14:15
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Mantis and Daniel Fusch are quite correct of course about Typhon’s being besieged and ultimately helpless on his mountain. But I still wonder at the ease of this defeat: his starsh…
15 Mar 2000, 11:06
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Thanks to Matthew and Thomas for their responses to my Two Typhons note. Let me just say that I was trying to reconcile the physical details of Typhon's reign on Urth (in URTH) wit…
15 Mar 2000, 04:40
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TYPHON AND PAS: A RECONCILIATION OF HISTORIES One problem that Wolfe’s twelve-volume Sun Cycle presents is that of reconciling the details of Typhon’s reign given by Severian in T…
14 Mar 2000, 06:06
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Not entirely forgiven: it's Dr. Gevers, so a double apology is due. I should adopt a new Whorl name, to replace my old monicker Potto; how about Rigoglio? What do you think, mantis…
07 Mar 2000, 11:15
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The cover of Tor's IN GREEN'S JUNGLES is now viewable on amazon.com. Jim Burns has, if anything, done an even more lurid job this time; the Neighbor looks like one of Vance's Pnume…
02 Mar 2000, 14:47
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It's occurred to me that, keeping in mind the constant emphasis on possession in the Long Sun/Short Sun sequence, the identification of certain inhumi with certain humans might be …
11 Feb 2000, 22:56
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Thanks to Nutria for his several comments and responses on ST. But to Nutria and others: please call me Nick, or Nick Gevers; being called "Gevers" makes me uneasy... I think the …
10 Feb 2000, 21:40
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On the traffic jam stories in ST: I remember Wolfe saying in his original note on "Bluesberry Jam" in SPACE OPERA that an actual incident involving a protracted traffic jam inspire…
08 Feb 2000, 10:24
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On Alex's last posting, two points: 1) Wolfe's view of the nature of an all-female society is best reflected in his depiction of Trivigaunte in LONG SUN: they haven't done away wi…
06 Feb 2000, 13:18
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Here's my more detailed take on "The Ziggurat" (at last). THE THREE MEANINGS OF “THE ZIGGURAT” Before analyzing “The Ziggurat” in detail, I’d like to sum up once more the overall…
06 Feb 2000, 04:38
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