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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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