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Is anyone on the list going to Capricon later this week? I've just looked at all the panels and events in which Gene Wolfe is due to take part. The list is as follows: . Destiny …
09 Feb 2010, 16:29
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I am pleased to announce that we've recently published (or, in one case, are at this very moment publishing!) three new articles at Ultan's Library, the online resource for the stu…
22 May 2009, 17:24
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Dave Tallman recently mentioned Nick Gever's article "Five steps towards Briah: Gene Wolfe's 'The Book of the Long Sun'", which is published over at the Ultan's Library website. A…
10 Jan 2009, 14:39
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Gwern Branwen wrote... The short answer is "No," but the vague and not terribly helpful longer answer is "Hmmm, that rings a bell..." It could be from either of the first two sol…
09 Dec 2008, 10:38
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When I recently had the pleasure of meeting Gene Wolfe, among the things we discussed were the various audio recordings which he has made over the years. Amongst others recordings,…
05 Dec 2008, 21:06
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As I was writing about evil undersea cities and civilisations in AEG and the Urth Cycle, one part of my mind facetiously wandered and wondered whether Gene Wolfe had ever watched t…
03 Nov 2008, 22:33
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I'm currently reading TBotNS. I keep getting struck by parallels with AEG, which I have just read. It has already been noted that the role of the malign underwater Storm God of AE…
03 Nov 2008, 22:00
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Just tossing some random half-thoughts, ideas and speculations around here... 1 If Bill Reis is a Christ figure, is the US president's desire to gain his secret of manufacturing g…
29 Oct 2008, 15:15
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I gather that there's a new SCiFi action/adventure/horror/nonsense film coming out in the UK soon called "The Mutant Chronicles". I see from the preview sites that one of the chara…
10 Oct 2008, 10:22
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"Geberally"??? Er... Please make that "generally". My mind must have been somewhere else when I typed that. Ilgen…
09 Oct 2008, 11:03
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On Thursday 18 September, Teri Goulding wrote... Very much hoping finally to get to meet my literary hero, I've bought a flight from England to Chicago, sent in my convention regi…
30 Sep 2008, 14:08
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The latest addition to Ultan's Library (www.ultan.org.uk) is an interview with Michael Andre-Driussi about the new edition of the "Lexicon Urthus". In the interview, Michael discus…
25 Sep 2008, 10:35
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Hmm... Internet Explorer seems to include any trailing full stop after a URL in the URL itself. Just to make it clear, the URL for Ultan's Library is http://www.ultan.org.uk/index…
27 Aug 2008, 11:56
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To coincide with the launch of the second edition of the _Lexicon Urthus_, the editors of Ultan's Library are pleased to announce the publication of a new essay by Michael Andre-Dr…
27 Aug 2008, 11:39
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Many of you on the list will already have seen this, but in case you haven't seen it, here is news from Michael Andre-Driussi about the imminent release of a newly revised edition …
13 Jul 2008, 21:19
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The producers of the film version of "The Death of Dr Island" have recently updated their website (http://www.doctorisland.com/). Postproduction continues but they clearly need so…
04 Jun 2008, 12:13
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I think that I have most or all of the messages for this period. Let me know if you would like me to send them to you. Nigel…
22 Jan 2008, 23:45
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There was a review by Lisa Tuttle of a new children's fantasy anthology called "Dark Alchemy" in the Summer Books section of Saturday's Times (The Times, 30 June 2007, Books, p9). …
04 Jul 2007, 11:25
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In Roy's last post, Mantis is quoted as saying: Anyone interested can find details - though not many - here: http://www.doctorisland.com/ Nigel…
20 Jun 2007, 22:47
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Mantis gave me permission to reproduce his account of the weekend in Seattle. Wish I'd been there! Nigel ------------------------------------- Hello there Nigel, It was wonderf…
20 Jun 2007, 17:04
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Yes, I am still here, though I rarely have time to read everything on the list these days, and even less time to contribute. When I have dipped into the list of late, however, it h…
27 Jan 2005, 05:35
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Turin asked: Yes, I've got a copy. It's beautifully written and very witty, in an erudite way, and I read it with a great deal of pleasure. Robert's methodology is, as ever, based…
27 Jan 2005, 05:19
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Tyreal (Welcome!) asked: OK! There are (currently!) four main works in the Urth/Sun cycle, and together they take up 12 volumes. These "four main works" are _The Book of the New …
06 Jun 2003, 21:38
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Nutria wrote concerning my recent confusion of names... You see? I even get the names of my trees mixed up. It might have been better if, suffering a similar lack, I had shared y…
15 May 2003, 22:36
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Compared with which crime, any involvement with Star Wars pales into complete insignificance... ;-)> Nigel…
14 May 2003, 15:06
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Mantis (yes, I checked, it was he) wrote... And very grateful he is too - especially for today's FCT (see below). On the subject of who-said-what, the very same Mantis also comme…
14 May 2003, 14:24
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Greeting, Alan Lewis - welcome to the Urth List. Here are some possible reasons why Nettle would want to return with Silk/Horn to the Whorl: 1) She has always admired Silk and wo…
13 May 2003, 15:17
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I thought that the "The Tree is my Hat" barrel was empty, but it turns out that there are just a few more last dry scrapings to be got out. Here goes. The shark is a hammer-head. …
13 May 2003, 12:37
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Thanks to Che Monro, Fernando Gouvea and John Barach for the alternative takes on the ending to "The Tree is My Hat" and the meaning of the story's title. Intrigued, I listened ag…
13 May 2003, 01:05
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In response to my query about the medicinal use of arsenic, Josh Geller wrote... Thanks, Josh! I thought I remembered something like that, but didn't know where to check it out. …
13 May 2003, 00:13
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Thanks to Mantis, Patera Nutria and Robert Borski for their helpful contributions to the analysis of "The Tree is My Hat". I was going to comment on their comments in detail, but …
12 May 2003, 17:59
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Curious to know more about the background to Wolfe's story "The Tree is my Hat", I dug around in the back of the upstairs storage cupboard until I finally found my long lost copy o…
12 May 2003, 14:02
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Returning for a moment to the interpretive thread which sees the demon-possessed Baden himself as the shark which attacks his family in "The Tree Is My Hat"...and while fully posse…
11 May 2003, 15:25
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I thought that it was far too long since we heard from Robert Borski, so I was delighted when I got up early this morning to find this message waiting for me. I've asked Robert whe…
11 May 2003, 11:56
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Special thanks to mantis, who comments... Yeah...Won't last! Brilliant! Thank you, Michael. Seeing the names like this, I wonder whether the significance of Rob's name is its co…
10 May 2003, 16:42
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Reread what I wrote last night about "The Tree is My Hat". Hmmm... One or two little things to add. I've assumed that the dramatised reading sticks closely to the text, and the wh…
10 May 2003, 11:24
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I commend Alga on a wonderfully balanced appraisal of Graves' _The Greek Myths_. I agree with both her praise and her warnings. It's a superbly useful reference book, but Graves' i…
27 Apr 2003, 20:58
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Oren asked... It's up to you, but I really think that you'll get much more out of it if you read the books in sequence and read Long Sun before Short Sun. They are intimately rela…
27 Apr 2003, 20:55
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Reynardine = The Hero as Werwolf?…
18 Apr 2003, 22:05
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Splutter! What! Nigel, a fat, bearded and ageing hippy who has been meaning to respond to all sorts of issues raised on the Urth list recently but still hasn't got round to it, ru…
18 Apr 2003, 11:56
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In response to my query about the haiku at the end of "The Death of Dr. Island", Alga said: Okely-dokely! Way back in 1997, the thread lasted for about three messages (from alga,…
11 Apr 2003, 17:44
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About six years ago, there was a discussion on the list of the poetry quoted in "The Death of Dr. Island" which was initiated by alga. As far as I could tell, no one was able to pi…
10 Apr 2003, 13:13
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Thanks to Matt DeLuca for raising the question of favourite quotations. It's a good idea, though not one I find easy to respond to. This is partly because of my poor memory for thi…
10 Apr 2003, 13:05
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In a rhetorical mood, Crush ruminates... Nigel, who, somewhat disturbingly, keeps a Latin dictionary by his side at all times, responds in a manner that is intended to be helpful,…
04 Mar 2003, 11:14
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Does anyone on the list have details of the book of essays on Gene Wolfe which Wildside Press are planning to bring out? Details of the proposed companion volume on C J Cherryh can…
27 Feb 2003, 17:38
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote... I don't think we're disagreeing at all. That's pretty well the sort of thing I meant to say when I was maundering on late last night! In my view, ther…
19 Feb 2003, 17:14
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I don't want to get into the "can and does Wolfe write convincingly about romantic love debate", because, as I've tried to explain in my other post, I think the real issue is wheth…
18 Feb 2003, 23:50
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On the subject of Adam's interesting "Wintry thoughts" and Nutria's helpful response (I'm waiting to see where Mantis is going before I comment!)... My previous reference to the p…
18 Feb 2003, 22:53
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In response to my precipitate endorsement, well after six years, anyway, of Kevin McGuire's suggestion that the grafting of Mr Burns' head onto Homer's body in an episode of "The S…
11 Feb 2003, 12:29
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Resolutely sticking to the TAD trail, like a bloodhound on a scent, the tireless Mantis asks: Is it simply too gross to point to the phallic associations of the name, or at least …
10 Feb 2003, 12:19
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