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For a James Tiptree story that may have helped inspire "The Ziggurat", read "The Women Men Don't See", in HER SMOKE ROSE UP FOREVER (1989), one of the greatest SF collections ever …
02 Feb 2000, 10:22
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Nutria, I'm afraid I'll have to delay my detailed take on "The Ziggurat" until I've finished another, rather vexatious critical chore; but you're quite right that my ST review will…
31 Jan 2000, 12:34
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An acquaintance of mine, who shall remain nameless, has the following to say about IN GREEN'S JUNGLES: ...I've had the opportunity to read it in a galley-ized typescript, and it's…
27 Jan 2000, 23:39
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The cartoon connection to "1-2-3" is interesting if inconclusive; maybe Rocky was reconceived by Wolfe as a hirsute cocaine dealer. A story whose frame-narrated ghost-story format …
17 Jan 2000, 23:50
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Pertaining to the comments by Alex and Jonathan: I agree with Alex that ST has a theme of societal collapse, which, BTW, may explain certain omissions from the collection, of stori…
12 Jan 2000, 21:54
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(Spoilers) All right, taking up the matter of "One-Two-Three For Me": I haven't assigned it a specifically religious meaning. For me, the story corresponds closely to "And When The…
09 Jan 2000, 00:29
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In his review of Paul J. McAuley's CONFLUENCE series, just posted on SF WEEKLY, John Clute does a systematic comparison of the trilogy with THE BOOKS by Wolfe. I agree with Clute's…
04 Jan 2000, 00:39
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For anyone who may have been deterred from reading STRANGE TRAVELERS by negative or nonexistent publicity: get the book. It's superb. Now if only Wolfe would assemble all those oth…
31 Dec 1999, 00:05
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According to LOCUS ONLINE, IN GREEN'S JUNGLES will be published in hardcover by Tor in August 2000. Another 7 months... =====…
21 Dec 1999, 04:13
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According to LOCUS ONLINE, IN GREEN'S JUNGLES will be published in hardcover by Tor in August 2000. Another 7 months... =====…
21 Dec 1999, 04:13
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With regard to the question of how satisfactory Sev's career in the Age of the Monarch is as the basis for the legend of the Conciliator: one mustn't forget Canog's role as propaga…
23 Nov 1999, 20:35
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I agree with Ori in some ways, in particular re the inexcusability of many of the Increate's actions, such as the immolation of the Commonwealth's people that Ushas may arise. But …
19 Nov 1999, 23:27
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Just a far-fetched thought stemming from the indicated contents of STRANGE TRAVELERS: the items omitted from that collection include "Empires of Foliage and Flower" and "The Boy Wh…
15 Nov 1999, 10:33
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It's unlikely that alga and Kevin will ever agree with me about the inherent merits of Clute's prose style; we keep accusing each other of missing the point, which suggests we're d…
07 Nov 1999, 21:15
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Various points raised by Kevin Maroney and alga: 1) On Clute: it's true that Clute's contortions of style can hinder accessibility of his mass-audience reviews for that audience; …
06 Nov 1999, 21:40
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Re the necessity of URTH as a coda to TBOTNS: I personally see THE URTH OF THE NEW SUN as Wolfe's best single book, both for its rich eclecticism of focus and its superb flights of…
06 Nov 1999, 07:03
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I think that criticisms of John Clute's style ignore the fact that he is (unlike most critics) an original prose stylist. His innovative, if sometimes contorted, writing has vastly…
05 Nov 1999, 23:19
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I think that criticisms of John Clute's style ignore the fact that he is (unlike most critics) an original prose stylist. His innovative, if sometimes contorted, writing has vastly…
05 Nov 1999, 23:19
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If William Ansley is correct in his suggestion that the secret Horn possesses is the need for all humans to protect each other against being bitten by the inhumi--thus preventing t…
05 Nov 1999, 23:12
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On the subject of the use in SF of the spurious experimental evidence concerning the learning abilities of planaria: coincidentally, I've just encountered a rather good short story…
03 Nov 1999, 20:42
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In the course of an interview I've been conducting with him, Michael Swanwick has some interesting things to say about Wolfe: 1) "he is, I honestly believe, the finest writer in th…
03 Nov 1999, 11:25
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I agree with other parties to our debate that the ever-present possibility of scientific explanations for events enriches NEW SUN, lending it rigour, speculative depth, and metapho…
02 Nov 1999, 11:34
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A very interesting review of ON BLUE'S WATERS by John Clute appears online in the latest SF WEEKLY. He states that Tor will release both IN GREEN'S JUNGLES and RETURN TO THE WHORL …
02 Nov 1999, 11:20
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I'm glad to see that my "Fairy Tale Logic" posting ended our dry patch; I'm also gratified that mantis agrees with me in part, a rare event. But to take up the cudgel again: I stil…
01 Nov 1999, 22:02
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As a follow-up to my posting of a few days ago on whether "The Brown Book" can be seen as in some way synonymous with THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN itself: I didn't mean that the two Boo…
30 Oct 1999, 23:32
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Very likely an idle question: do other Lupines regret, as I do, the lack of a companion volume to the "Sun" cycles containing Wolfe's short stories and miscellanea set in the Urth/…
26 Oct 1999, 12:04
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Reading the fascinating discussion of narrative forms and strategies on the list, two points occur to me: 1) Someone (I think alga) states that "The Tale of the Student and His So…
26 Oct 1999, 03:12
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Two small points: Merryn as Sev's sister: Wolfe has indicated elsewhere, maybe in the PEOPLE magazine discussion, that Merryn appears in SHORT SUN, and she is widely supposed to be…
12 Oct 1999, 12:14
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So: somehow Nessus arises later in SHORT SUN, with severian and Merryn in tow; we did indeed have an inkling of this before, especially when in his NOVA EXPRESS interview Wolfe sai…
11 Oct 1999, 22:13
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Referring to Ori's recommendation of Mario de Carvalho's book: I strongly second this. A GOD STROLLING is magisterial stuff, and as an account of paganism hovering on the brink of …
21 Sep 1999, 03:21
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Recently, while conducting an interview with Kim Stanley Robinson, I asked him his opinion concerning Gene Wolfe's contribution to SF. This was his response: KSR: Well it would be…
17 Sep 1999, 13:02
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After a long absence, a notice and a query: If anyone would like to get a very modest sneak preview of THE BOOK OF THE SHORT SUN, amazon.com's entry for ON BLUE'S WATERS now carrie…
11 Sep 1999, 12:29
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It's occurred to me that in the two months remaining until ON BLUE'S WATERS appears and the floodgates of Wolfean discussion are once more opened, it might be diverting for people …
21 Jul 1999, 16:33
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More Wolfe news, this time courtesy of Locus Online: Wolfe's new collection, STRANGE TRAVELERS, will be published as a Tor hardcover in January 2000. //----------------------------…
15 Jun 1999, 19:39
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Information from barnesandnoble.com: Gene Wolfe, ON BLUE'S WATERS - Tor Books, Sept 1999 (formally, I suppose, Oct 1999), hardcover, $24.95 - ISBN 0312866143. //-------------------…
09 Jun 1999, 17:43
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There's been a degree of controversy in the last couple of years about the influence of Blish on later writers - Mary Doria Russell has been accused of rehashing A CASE OF CONSCIEN…
02 Jun 1999, 03:47
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I was a little surprised to read of people stumped by the precise (or deeper) meaning of the green man's prophecy of Severian finding Agia above ground. I've thought all along that…
01 Jun 1999, 16:26
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I heartily endorse William Ansley's point about copy-editing. Why not persuade Tor Books to let one of us (say me) read SHORT SUN in advance? A thorough job is guaranteed to be don…
15 May 1999, 22:47
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Congratulations to Nigel Price: very interesting and even graceful input on the religious issue. A welcome change from this increasingly rusty topic of the iron men; shouldn't we m…
08 May 1999, 16:35
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Our discussion of the religious or non-religious nature of Wolfe's work has certainly become complexly and compulsively interesting. Noting Jonathan Laidlow's comments on TBOTNS as…
30 Apr 1999, 06:10
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In response to Ori Kowarsky's interesting and emphatic recent posting, denying any necessary religious reading of Wolfe's work: Certainly many different interpretations of Wolfe, r…
25 Apr 1999, 05:29
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Following on fascinating remarks by Ori Kowarski and mantis, re the Hierogrammates as secular conspirators (fallible or not): 1) Even if one views the Hierogrammates as conspirator…
22 Apr 1999, 09:25
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Very differing reactions to my suggestion re Inire as Father In Ire. I think this illustrates Wolfe's fundamental and deliberate ambiguity; he's assiduous in the Urth Cycle at keep…
20 Apr 1999, 06:00
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In his Lexicon Urthus, mantis translates "Inire" plausibly enough by reference to the Latin for "to begin, to enter". I'd like to suggest that a different, more literal reading mig…
18 Apr 1999, 08:09
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I must apologize for two rash utterances: 1) Any literary feud between Wolfe and Aldiss: Damien Broderick is on the inside track with Brian Aldiss, and his testimony to the contrar…
13 Apr 1999, 09:18
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Could Agilus be a hierodule? (What with masks within masks.) //-------------------------------------- Nicholas Gevers potto at webmail.co.za…
12 Apr 1999, 18:10
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Regarding rostrum's point about Horn as a perhaps biased narrator, this influencing his perceptions of the inhumi: yes, this makes excellent sense, especially as the Horn who write…
11 Apr 1999, 06:42
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Thanks to Michael for his introduction and to Robert Borski and Alice Turner for their welcomes. Thanks also to all who've responded to the "Nova Express" article. I've written a s…
10 Apr 1999, 05:23
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Seeing as there's recently been discussion on this site about the nature of the Annese and their possible connection with Urth, Green, etc., I'd like to pose to everyone a question…
08 Apr 1999, 13:26
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