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In answer to my question about the shorter *day* on the planet in the story I didn't follow this explanation at all until I went back and reread the story today while I was still …
07 Feb 2003, 20:37
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Blattid wrote... You're right, it is a good story, but there are - inevitably - still things that I'm not sure about. Is it OK if I go ahead and ask a question, provided I write..…
07 Feb 2003, 00:54
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Way back on Tuesday 17 June 1997, Kevin McGuire asked on the Whorl list: As far as I can see, no one ever answered that question, but I finally got to see that episode of "The Sim…
07 Feb 2003, 00:37
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Perhaps everyone else round here already knew this, but apparently GW is going to be writer-in-residence at the Odyssey Fantasy Writing Workshop at Southern New Hampshire Universit…
06 Feb 2003, 11:26
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Nutria suggested I look at a website for a sensible review of the new film of "Solaris". Thank you! At last, a sensible and intelligent review. I'd read half a dozen previously on…
22 Jan 2003, 12:38
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I suppose, strictly speaking, George Macdonald (1824-1905) and C S Lewis (1898-1963) overlapped by about seven years, but you wouldn't normally call them "contemporaries". Years a…
22 Jan 2003, 12:35
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Echoing what Andy said, thanks, Nutria, for all the stuff on Solaris, which was fascinating. Thanks, too, while, I'm about it, for your speculative interpretation of the symbolism …
20 Jan 2003, 23:04
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Also Sprach Zibethicus: I've always been fascinated by the perplexing business of what Wolfe actually believes and what he puts into his stories simply because he happens to find …
19 Jan 2003, 15:29
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Greetings, Urthlings! The ArchD'Ikon Zibethicus, he say... From my own reading of Lewis, I think I can say with reasonable confidence that he would have subscribed to the fairly t…
18 Jan 2003, 12:45
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In reply to my query on the contents of the forthcoming collection of GW Whoops! I don't recall that at all. Thanks, Roy. I clearly haven't being paying proper attention. There s…
03 Jan 2003, 19:06
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Very much looking forward to the three upcoming Wolfe volumes which Dr Nick mentions. Does he or anyone else know which stories are going to be included in the "Wraiths, Waifs and …
02 Jan 2003, 23:17
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Hey, Blattid! I shouldn't really be proud of this, but I've already made that David Bowie joke on the list back in April 2002. See... http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0204/636.…
01 Jan 2003, 11:05
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*Please* ignore that last post of mine entitled "Three Worlds". I was just saving a note for myself on something I wanted to write about in the morning when I wasn't so tired, and …
23 Dec 2002, 23:53
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Whatever the truth of the "Green is Urth" question may be, I've always been more fascinated by the way in which GW plays with the three worlds of the Divine Comedy in his own compl…
23 Dec 2002, 23:51
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I take GW's comment to Marc very seriously, and believe that it is true, at least at a symbollic level. Green is, in part, a satire on greedy, warring, self-destroying Urth/Earth. …
23 Dec 2002, 23:47
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Thank you - I did. Loads and loads of references! Intersting, too, to do a search on the term "picaresque". I didn't go through all these, but most of the ones at the top of list …
23 Dec 2002, 15:34
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From close observation of my daughters' pet rats, I know that grooming is vital for their health and well-being. I hope that the esteemed myopotamic pastoral rodent can therefore f…
22 Dec 2002, 17:50
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...Not to mention being shot at by the North Koreans, Red Chinese or whoever. No, I can't see GW as being easily upset by what a bunch of SF fans write! Nigel…
18 Dec 2002, 11:45
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(Nigel, delurking for a second time in a day in response to some of the hurtful comments that have been made about Marc in recent postings.) Oh come on, chaps! As for what GW wou…
17 Dec 2002, 23:57
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Marc wrote... *Please*, Marc, stop being a tease and pass on what GW said to you! I for one would love to know what on Urth the Short Sun books are about! Could you cut and paste…
17 Dec 2002, 10:49
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The Mas... King Lear, surely? Isn't it Edgar who mutters endlessly about poor Tom being cold? Nigel…
14 Nov 2002, 10:37
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Josh asked about Mantis' account of his meeting with the Wolfes at the recent WorldCon: It was. The message was entitled... ...and it was sent Fri, 6 Sep 2002 16:45:50 -0700 Nig…
08 Sep 2002, 11:28
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I generally only have time to skim-read the list at the moment, but I read Mantis' account of his recent WorldCon visit with great pleasure. Michael, thank you for taking time to t…
07 Sep 2002, 11:31
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In his short story "The Great Keinplatz Experiment", Sir Arthur Conan Doyle deals, albeit factiously, with one of the themes which is central to Wolfe's Book of the Short Sun, name…
30 Jul 2002, 20:23
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For what it's worth, I really like "Pandora". I think it's charming. I like it as a detective story, I like it as a mildly satirical Nancy Drew pastiche, and I like it as a gently…
19 May 2002, 04:51
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I hope you find a copy, Christopher. Dobson, the UK publisher, who put it out in an incredibly drab and nasty hardback edition, were doing their best to shift the final copies out …
09 May 2002, 23:55
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You've got me uncertain now. I'd always assumed that Marble said something like, "That Chem must have eyes in the back of her head!" Or did you think that a somewhat more robust …
07 May 2002, 11:51
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Taking a brief and guilty break from the world of literary SF, I'm currently zipping my way through a cheerfully trashy volume misleadingly entitled "Roger Zelazny's Alien Speedway…
05 May 2002, 16:47
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All I wanted to do originally with this thread was point out the possibility of Lupine wordplay around the idea of "two byte word"/"two word bites"/"two word bird", but then I was …
23 Apr 2002, 00:39
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Apologies to hartshorn (no capital H, no terminal e). My friends the Hartshornes do spell their name with a capital "H" and a terminal "e", and that's probably why I wrote it that …
21 Apr 2002, 20:45
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A few days ago, Nutria wrote concerning my rejection of Peter Wright's explanation of Severian's adventures as a cynical exercise in extra-terrestrial manipulation: Yes! Absolutel…
20 Apr 2002, 20:25
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Back in the "good ol' days" of 16-bit processors, people sometimes used to refer to machines based around these devices as having "a two-byte word". A byte is 8 bits, and the natur…
20 Apr 2002, 20:19
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I too followed Jerry's link to the Google discussion group earlier this week, though the main source of my surprise when I got there was that I actually recognised the names of one…
19 Apr 2002, 23:08
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(Testing, testing, testing... 1-2-3... 1-2-3... Is this thing on? Is it working now? Let me try a short test message before posting anything larger.) Blattid suggests that Seve…
19 Apr 2002, 11:27
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Lots to think about, lots of points to respond to. Let's start with the most bizarre first... Marc asked: This is exactly the kind of question I spend a great deal of time not th…
18 Apr 2002, 12:13
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(Well, I've finally read through all those Urth lists that you posted while I was away. I didn't know what "geritol" was, but was surprised to read of Marc's apparent surprise that…
17 Apr 2002, 12:27
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Strange, isn't it? I really like "Pandora by Holly Hollander" - it's charming, witty, and well executed - and thought "There are Doors" was quite brilliant, if decidedly odd. Is "…
14 Apr 2002, 11:02
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From the interview - which I enjoyed very much, though I laughed perhaps more than I learned... NG: You're very good at parody...Many of the stories in "Strange Travelers" appear …
18 Mar 2002, 12:35
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I've been *ever* so self-disciplined and managed to hold myself back from entering the who-has-the-best-hymns debate (a bit of everything at Peter Wright told me that when he stay…
27 Feb 2002, 00:46
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One list, please, Ranjit. I've felt for a long while that the arbitrary separation of the Long Sun and Short Sun books into a separate list hindered a discussion of their place in…
08 Dec 2001, 23:23
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Concerning the BBC's "Walking with Beasts", Jerry Friedman asked: Oh yes, lots of flightless birds, particularly in the first episode. Nigel…
18 Nov 2001, 00:19
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I'm always glad to get replies to e-mails, however long the delay... Back in August, Ron Crown asked on this list about two new books of Wolfe criticism which he had seen mentione…
16 Nov 2001, 01:10
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I missed the broadcast on telly tonight because I was out a meeting, but I'm looking forward to watching a tape of "Walking with Beasts", the BBC's sequel to their excellent "Walki…
16 Nov 2001, 00:56
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Thank you, Jeff. Another list member wrote to me off-list and commented: Oh well, I did ask... Anyway, a consensus seems to be emerging. It really does sound rather horrid, and, …
10 Sep 2001, 09:26
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Going through some back copies of Locus, I found a review in the July 1997 issue for a book entitled "An Exchange of Hostages", by Susan R Matthews. According to the review, the bo…
04 Sep 2001, 13:22
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Two distinct groups of contributors? What a chilling thought... No, no, it may appear that way sometimes, but I'm sure it's an allusion. We're all fans really. If I've been more t…
24 Aug 2001, 23:32
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On the subject of what Peter Wright said about the new Gene Wolfe studies due from Liverpool University Press, our favourite victim of ursine myopia I was fairly sure that we gave…
24 Aug 2001, 18:24
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Ron crown asks: Peter Wright told us about his book "Attending Dedalus" at the Wolfe Symposium at Birmingham University last year. This is, to the best of my recollection, a book …
24 Aug 2001, 15:56
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Thanks to Mantis for beating the Illinois county bounds, and to Joshua for useful information on the Chicago area and the background to Holly Hollander's adventures. I very nearly …
23 Aug 2001, 17:22
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More on places and placenames in "Pandora by Holly Hollander": OK, so when Holly is injured, she is taken to a hospital in a "Palestine", which she says is between "Barton" and Ch…
20 Aug 2001, 15:08
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