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Just to confirm that Michael Andre-Driussi's new article is now published in Ultan's Library. Nigel Co-Editor Ultan's Library http://www.ultan.org.uk/…
22 May 2009, 22:32
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Concerning buying a still frame from the forthcoming (we hope!) movie version of "The Death of Doctor Island", Gwern Branwen asked, a while back... Yes. The still frame was a stri…
05 Feb 2009, 13:52
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Gwern Branwen asks concerning the movie version of "The Death of Doctor Island" and it's supposed launch date... Good question. Last I heard, they were still trying to raise money…
30 Jan 2009, 23:48
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And this is still available - thank you, Roy! I'll send off for that. The American Audio Prose Library also offer the recording of Wolfe reading "The Island of Dr Death and Other S…
06 Dec 2008, 12:28
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Dave Lebling wrote... Absolutely. It's hard to understand. I imagine it must have been quite early in Wolfe's career, but even so, Pohl was a well established author by then. Hmm…
06 Dec 2008, 00:17
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Thank you, Brunians! It's good to be back. Nigel…
05 Dec 2008, 23:01
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In terms of commercial audio recordings of his stories, a reading of Wolfe's short story "Hunter's Lake" is included in "The Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, September…
05 Dec 2008, 21:19
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Thanks for that, James. I'd forgotten about that marionette reference in OBW. There's the story "The Toy Theater" in TIoDDaOSaOS too. That's all about marionettes. I started this…
04 Nov 2008, 00:10
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Kieran Mullen asks... No, I don't think that AEG is a Lovecraftian horror story in the sense that you define. As far as I understand - which is not very far at all - it borrows so…
04 Nov 2008, 00:04
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Weird but true: Gerry Anderson and Ray Harryhausen were both speakers at the 1987 WorldCon in Brighton, England, which Gene and Rosemary Wolfe also attended. Did Wolfe hear Gerry …
03 Nov 2008, 23:00
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Son of Witz said... Matt said... And Dan'l said... Yes, please. Nigel…
30 Oct 2008, 19:31
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The two cricket fans in "The Lady Vanishes" are called Charters and Caldicott. Your point about the exagerated speech patterns in British literature and films of the period is wel…
30 Oct 2008, 09:45
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6 I raised King Kong, 30s pulp and reproducing the cliches of the genre: Dave Lebling addressed the whole 30s pulp issue brilliantly back on Sat Sep 27 19:12:09 PDT 2008... Yes, a…
30 Oct 2008, 00:58
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4 OK, on Wed Sep 24 20:55:32 PDT 2008, Matthew Keeley had already picked up on the Batman thing and mentioned what I had noticed while reading but forgotten while writing, namely t…
29 Oct 2008, 21:28
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...Or even "there" first! N.…
29 Oct 2008, 20:02
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6 King Kong Sorry, I didn't read the early messages on AEG becuase at the time I still hadn't got my copy of the book. I'm rereading them now and see that Don Doggett mentioned Ki…
29 Oct 2008, 20:01
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8 Was anyone else struck by the thought that Wolfe is making a wicked pun by calling Cassie's agent Zelda Youmans? I take it that "Zelda Youmans" stands for "sell the humans". Wh…
29 Oct 2008, 16:07
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Patera Nutria observed: Yes, indeed. Reis even speaks like Jesus at times! On page 275, we read: Reis' comment that he would die for Cassie is obviously prophetic and Christ-lik…
28 Oct 2008, 23:53
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Nutria asked about the Gene Wolfe sessions at WindyCon: And Matt replied: That's right. Wolfe is due to take part in the session on "Child Soldiers" at 4pm on Friday 14 November …
28 Oct 2008, 11:11
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In reply to Brunians at Brunians.org's previous message in this thread... Sorry that you won't be able to join us in Chicago, Josh. I didn't want to clog things up with my reply t…
20 Oct 2008, 22:51
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The WindyCon organisers have now published a detailed programme for the weekend of 14-16 November. The panel with Gene Wolfe, Michael Andre-Driussi and I in which we will be discu…
20 Oct 2008, 09:27
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Stephen Case wrote... You can register for just a day or for the whole three-day convention, but you can't register for just a single session. If you register by mail before Frida…
12 Oct 2008, 13:06
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James Wynn asked re the session on "Post-Historic Warfare" at WindyCon... Will do. As you gather, it's not in our hands, though we have requested that it's held on the Saturday. …
11 Oct 2008, 23:04
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Thank you, Don, for the list of contents. That looks like a good selection, for all that I'd argue for the inclusion of some other stories too. The odd thing reading the list is t…
11 Oct 2008, 11:02
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I enjoyed all the novels on the out-of-print list - even "Operation Ares", which Wolfe himself doesn't seem to rate. All right, it's not a masterpiece, but there are early appearan…
11 Oct 2008, 10:57
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Sorry you can't make it. I checked your schedule and it looks like you'll be playing the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco on Saturday 15 November. Shame! I know that there's some…
11 Oct 2008, 10:40
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Just to let you know that WindyCon have accepted a proposal from Michael Andre-Driussi and I to run a session on "Post-Historic Warfare" in which we intend to discuss the depiction…
10 Oct 2008, 23:10
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Don Doggett wrote about "The Best of Gene Wolfe"... I don't know what the terms are under which advance copies of books are distributed, but the prime concern of most publishers i…
09 Oct 2008, 11:01
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brunians at brunians.org asked... I booked my room at the convention hotel over the Internet just last night. Does this mean that I got more or less the last room available, I won…
30 Sep 2008, 15:19
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Jeff Wilson asked about Ultan's Library: "Is there a place where new additions are listed, regardless of section or category?" That's one for Jonathan to answer rather than me, be…
28 Sep 2008, 19:40
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Thanks for the debugging feedback, Jeff. The URL for Ultan's Library is http://www.ultan.org.uk/ , which should get you to the home page. The interview with Michael Andre-Driussi …
28 Sep 2008, 14:19
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Pedro Pereira asked: Yes, Michael did say that he had the nucleus of a book about "The Book of the Long Sun" and "The Book of the Short Sun" that he referred to as having the work…
25 Sep 2008, 17:34
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Mo, thanks for updating the WolfeWiki page on "Suzanne Delage". Wow, that was prompt! I've added a note to the text of the interview pointing out that the Wiki article has now bee…
25 Sep 2008, 15:50
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In addition to the other shades of meaning already mentioned, "Ur" carries the sense of "source". Thus "Ur-Hamlet", for example, is a supposed lost source play for Shakespeare's Ha…
28 Apr 2008, 15:12
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Aaron Singleton asked: at the beginning of Seven American Nights? The American on board becomes very offended when Nadan points this out to him. Any help is greatly appreciated.…
15 Jul 2007, 14:53
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No, I can't get onto Robert Borski's "Cave Canem" website anymore either. I haven't been able to contact him by e-mail or telephone, though I've tried both and I know that others h…
09 Jul 2007, 15:31
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I got my copy of Peter's book from Amazon UK a couple of weeks ago. It's a wonderful compendium of Wolfe interviews, many of which I'd read, but it's great to have them bound into…
06 Jul 2007, 13:41
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(Apologies if this ends up appearing twice. The list was offline the first time I tried to send it.) There was a review by Lisa Tuttle of a new children's fantasy anthology called…
04 Jul 2007, 16:09
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I'm still reading "Soldier of Sidon" having just reread "Mist" and "Arete". I hope to review it for "Ultan's Library". I'm enjoying it very much but tend to agree that it seems to …
29 Jun 2007, 22:08
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Just thought it worth mentioning in the context of Wolfe's story "Unrequited Love" that P D James' novel "The Children of Men" is about a world in which human beings have stopped h…
29 Jun 2007, 21:29
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I think it's a really good short short-story. As already pointed out, there seems to be a distinct possibility that the narrator is him-, her- or itself a robot. The situation on "…
27 Jun 2007, 09:56
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Rostrum asked about Wolfe's "What I Know About Writing (in no particular order)"... I don't think that this was an essay as such. It's a list of tips and bullet points and the lin…
21 Jun 2007, 18:55
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They'll be all visiting that website now, Rostrum. ;-)> Nigel…
20 Jun 2007, 23:07
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Mantis has sent me a highly amusing account of his time in Seattle and his meetings with Gene Wolfe and some of the Urth list members. I've asked whether he would post it here or a…
20 Jun 2007, 09:12
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I'm feeling very stupid at the moment. I've read "The Call of the Wild", and even read it within the last couple of years, but at the moment its connection to "Tracking Song" entir…
12 Jun 2007, 14:52
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Hm... I seem to have lost the knack of posting on this list. This is my third attempt. Nothing seems to have happened so far, but apologies all round if I've actually posted this t…
09 Jun 2007, 12:26
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The recording of GW's story "The Tree is my Hat" which is available for free download at http://www.phaseshift.com/tree/ was due to come down last Tuesday, 6 May, but for the momen…
10 May 2003, 00:50
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For some reason, our wise friend Blattid is having difficulty posting his messages to the list. I forward here his response to one of my recent contributions. Nigel -------------…
10 Apr 2003, 18:35
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Thanks, hartshorn. I probably shouldn't have mentioned it on the list. That's what comes of writing e-mails late at night, I guess. Nigel…
27 Mar 2003, 00:25
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Hello Michael. Good to see "Snake's Hands" prominently featured on the Wildside Press website. You ask about the Wolfe volume I mentioned. Well, the story goes as follows. The pr…
26 Mar 2003, 01:14
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