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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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I'm another of the fortunate (or damnable) few, and I'm also eager to begin the discussion. In the dwindling meantime, let me ask you this, Yves: do you now know why there was no g…
09 Jun 2000, 23:53
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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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The redoubtable alga set out to provide the URL for my essays on THE BOOK OF THE LONG SUN, but the text she was using doesn't seem to have been html-friendly (if that's the right t…
05 May 2000, 00:54
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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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Alga, the joke is a golfing one, referring to the (once) brilliant Spanish golfer Severiano Ballesteros.…
25 Apr 2000, 09:04
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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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Inire, LITANY collects NIGHTSIDE THE LONG SUN and LAKE OF THE LONG SUN. A later Orb volume, EPIPHANY OF THE LONG SUN, will contain CALDE and EXODUS.…
29 Mar 2000, 00:51
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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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--- Jesper Svedberg Tastes differ; and compare the Millennium cover art to the Sword & Sorcery bilge on the Orb cover! As for the Millennium text and format: the hardcover text t…
25 Mar 2000, 23:27
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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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Just a small note on the Wolfe/Calvino issue: IN GREEN'S JUNGLES, which I'll shortly start reading, seems to have a strong Italianate bias--evidence perhaps of Calvino's influence.…
22 Feb 2000, 11:48
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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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It was Jim Burns, who should have stuck to Majipoor.…
07 Feb 2000, 02:42
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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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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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Entering the very intriguing debate on "The Ziggurat": after having read the novella inconclusively back in 1996, I reread it in the context of STRANGE TRAVELERS, partly because I …
30 Jan 2000, 21:39
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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 only character in LONG SUN other than Silk who is clearly a grown special embryo is Mucor (thus her adoption by Blood, and her special powers). Chenille was the natural daughte…
20 Jan 2000, 21:30
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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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For me, the similarity of "1-2-3" and "And When They Appear" relates simply to the notion of cultural suicide: after all, the wealthy elite in "And When" clearly has ample technolo…
16 Jan 2000, 00:22
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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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The chess analogy arises in "To the Seventh", a story I found problematic in various ways. Nutria, do you think God's shifting of focus to another part of the board near the end wi…
09 Jan 2000, 21:25
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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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