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No, it's not Wolfe. You're referring to Michael Swanwick's rather brilliant short story "Radiant Doors" (1998). --Nick Gevers. --- Michael Andre-Driussi <mantis at siriusfiction.co…
31 Aug 2001, 05:53
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I asked Pete Crowther if he could provide some information on Wolfe's recent story "The Walking Sticks", to be found in the (rather expensive) anthology TAPS AND SIGHS. His respons…
20 May 2001, 08:19
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Yes, I know at least one; but payment might be a problem... --Nick Gevers. --- Robert Borski <rborski at charter.net> wrote: > Hey, Nick, do you know any other on-line editors who…
27 Apr 2001, 07:09
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A few months ago, I urged Ellen Datlow to run a Gene Wolfe story on SCI FICTION, and lo--whether because of my suggestion or without reference to it--she has now done so. The story…
26 Apr 2001, 14:53
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A few months ago, I urged Ellen Datlow to run a Gene Wolfe story on SCI FICTION, and lo--whether because of my suggestion or without reference to it--she has now done so. The story…
26 Apr 2001, 14:53
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I think it's reasonable to assume that much of the danger the inhumi pose to the humans on Blue stems from the possibility that human aggressors will employ inhumi as infiltrators …
26 Apr 2001, 14:35
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Mora isn't travelling astrally in the same manner as Horn--she's doing, with or without Fava, what Mucor does, possessing others. Perhaps Fava facilitates this, but I suspect the t…
23 Apr 2001, 06:00
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William Ansley: I agree with a good deal of your logic below. I've been arguing the strongest possible case for the Secret as an offensive weapon, striving to explain why the Secre…
23 Apr 2001, 05:55
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Another note on the Secret: does any human other than Horn/Silk have the ability to travel astrally, surely a rare gift from the Neighbors? In other words, is there anyone else who…
22 Apr 2001, 07:42
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A further point about defeating the inhumi militarily: the one way to force fugitive guerilla-type fighters into a pitched battle is to attack a location they consider strategicall…
22 Apr 2001, 07:34
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One objection to my astral-travel-to-defeat-the-inhumi thesis stands out as strong: the point that Horn describes the Secret as something that can reduce the inhumi to mindless bea…
22 Apr 2001, 07:17
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Two points have arisen: 1) The esteemed Kevin Maroney points out that Krait imparted what he assumed to be the full Secret to Horn long before the first episodes of astral travel;…
21 Apr 2001, 08:03
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Patera Nutria: no, I don't think the inhumi are teleporting from Green to Blue and then back again. If that were the case, Blue would be infested with them to a far greater degree …
20 Apr 2001, 18:44
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Following recent discussions of the Secret of the Inhumi, including reactions to my own theorisings, I’d like to propose a new and more comprehensive hypothesis as to what the Secr…
20 Apr 2001, 10:50
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Thanks to everyone who responded to my utopian theorisings; I was testing the waters with some ideas for a paper on TBSS... One point: I think that GW intends us to understand tha…
13 Apr 2001, 07:46
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I see the practical problems in applying the Secret, believe me I do. I wonder whether GW isn't commenting ironically on the difficulty of applying Christ's message in the "real wo…
11 Apr 2001, 01:18
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Dan Parmenter: interesting point about JOURNEY TO THE WEST, which we know of course influenced Cordwainer Smith very strongly. But then GW denies being influenced by Cordwainer Smi…
11 Apr 2001, 01:11
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Alga wrote: "Oh, honestly, what nonsense--this isn't the Torah! It's not my fault that Wolfe abandoned Mucor, murdered Jahlee, sent Nettle and Seawrack off on a Star Trek menage a…
11 Apr 2001, 01:08
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To what Alex says, I can only add: I'm not surprised Wolfe didn't like THE DISPOSSESSED. TBSS is all the more, then, his new improved version. And: Alex, you hit the nail on the …
11 Apr 2001, 00:49
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In response to the comments of Dan'l Blattid O'Roach below: Points well taken. I should add that if THE DISPOSSESSED has influenced TBSS, it may well have done so via its major ut…
09 Apr 2001, 22:03
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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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--- Nil_Ultra <Nil_Ultra at email.msn.com> wrote: > Has anyone heard anything about the book "Taps and As far as I know, Wolfe's contribution to TAPS AND SIGHS (a very expensive limi…
04 Aug 2000, 08:33
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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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Why not order from online booksellers, specifically amazon.co.uk or www.bookshop.co.uk? ASH would be reasonably inexpensive by that route... --- Nil_Ultra <Nil_Ultra at email.msn.com…
27 Jul 2000, 23:15
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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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More likely, by giving themselves to the inhumi, humans would see to it that the sentience the inhumi imbibed was of a benign, self-sacrificial flavour--a means of rendering the in…
08 Jul 2000, 23:32
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More likely, by giving themselves to the inhumi, humans would see to it that the sentience the inhumi imbibed was of a benign, self-sacrificial flavour--a means of rendering the in…
08 Jul 2000, 23:32
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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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