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On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:42:39 -0500 (EST), brunians at brunians.org said: Nothing that I'm aware of, though I haven't read all of the lycocentric litt?rature, but at least one shor…
29 Nov 2007, 08:31
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Harpers Magazine runs brain-stretching puzzles similar to this every issue and I've never been particularly good at solving them, but I'll gladly take a crack at Cadroe of the Seve…
29 Nov 2007, 06:27
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On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:00:52 -0800, "Duncan Truter" <dtruter at gmail.com> said: Columbus seems unlikely, since it is neither long nor difficult to pronounce (ditto for the varian…
27 Nov 2007, 21:05
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Interestingly, Gibson borrows one of the Wolfe's classic techniques in "Spook Country" -- i.e., refusing to identify a major character by name, in this case "the old man" -- althou…
29 Aug 2007, 03:07
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Apologies to both mantis and Peter Wright if "errors" was deliberate and a puckish attempt at humor. I thought for sure from the phrasing and context that "errors" had been substit…
29 Aug 2007, 00:36
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On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:55:43 -0400, "Paul B" <pb.stuff at gmail.com> said: It's extratextual and was mentioned in an interview conducted by Robert Frazier for a fanzine called Thr…
19 Jul 2007, 15:09
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Several months ago I was able to touch base with Mr. Borski via the strangehorizons site, where quite a bit of his poetry has been appearing lately, and he told me Cave Canem has a…
10 Jul 2007, 14:51
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"Dark Alchemy" is the retitled UK version of the US published "Wizards." The Wolfe story, if memory serves, is "Magical Animals" and is about a young boy who may be Merlin and his…
04 Jul 2007, 18:10
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On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:38:23 -0500, "Matthew Groves" <matthewalangroves at gmail.com> said: His name is Asopus and the river bears his name.…
28 Jun 2007, 21:43
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On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:08:50 -0400, "aaron" <aaronsingleton at gmail.com> said: According to the seller's information there are 50 hours of audio on the two disks. 50 X 60 = 3000 …
14 Jun 2007, 21:34
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On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:57:34 -0600, "Michael Straight" <mfstraight at gmail.com> said: Not by Wolfe, but Howard Waldrop: "Heirs of the Perisphere." As for movies, I think the fir…
12 Apr 2007, 16:20
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The notion of Wolfe being the Founder is interesting, but the name that went through my head was L. Ron Hubbard, who loved statues of himself (they're ubiquitous in Scientology cen…
06 Apr 2007, 02:21
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Sadly, Latro IV does not seem to be on the docket, but Wolfe's next two novels sound, uh, interesting. For details, see: http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=5&id=40…
15 Feb 2007, 05:35
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On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 21:10:00 +0000, "Powell ...." <just_like_powell at hotmail.com> said: The ARC of _Sidon_ includes the following sentence on the back cover: "At last we have a …
19 Nov 2006, 21:56
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On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 07:00:08 +1100, thalassocrat at nym.hush.com said: Latro uses the name 'Hades' only once in the first two books, preferring instead 'Receiver of Many,' which h…
14 Nov 2006, 22:29
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On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 20:04:00 +1100, thalassocrat at nym.hush.com said: Not sure I agree, since the name Hades means "unseen" and he's king of the underworld, where there is no sun…
14 Nov 2006, 17:24
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On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 22:29:21 -0600, "Adam Thornton" <adam at io.com> said: Self-published books do not have editors--not that that makes much difference given the overall atrocious…
05 Nov 2006, 05:50
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On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:41:41 -0400, "b sharp" <bsharporflat at hotmail.com> said: Actually, Severian names Catherine as his mother in Chapter XLIV of URTH: "Perhaps I was too dis…
26 Oct 2006, 17:44
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On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 02:21:41 -0700, "Scott K" <scott at skatemonk.com> said: Aw, shucks. Just when I was about to upload my Wolfe pastiche, "The Shapechanger and the Prostitute." …
20 Oct 2006, 15:40
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On Sat, 7 Oct 2006 14:24:47 -0500, "Roy C. Lackey" <rclackey at stic.net> said: Well, I'd be lying if I said I hadn't wondered about Abdiesus being either Thecla's or Thea's fathe…
08 Oct 2006, 03:14
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Roy Lackey writes: Meh. As far as I'm concerned, we can not even begin to address any possible genealogical connection between Severian and Thecla until we riddle out at least som…
07 Oct 2006, 03:59
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On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 13:00:34 -0400, "b sharp" <bsharporflat at hotmail.com> said: "...in the year I am recounting, the year of the fight by the graveside, Drotte and Roche were el…
05 Sep 2006, 18:03
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On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 09:24:40 -0400, "b sharp" <bsharporflat at hotmail.com> said: You're conflating two different women, I believe. The first was disinterred back when Severian w…
05 Sep 2006, 15:51
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On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 00:45:16 +0100, "Tony Ellis" <tonyellis69 at btopenworld.com> said: A significant portion of your argument relies on the chronology presented in "The Cat," whi…
29 Aug 2006, 02:08
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On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:49:11 +0100, "Tony Ellis" <tonyellis69 at btopenworld.com> said: Stranger still that the penultimate autarch, who looks like "a plump woman of forty," can h…
28 Aug 2006, 20:01
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Tony Ellis writes: I'd agree with Tony if I thought the old autarch was really 80, but I don't for a number of reasons. For starters, I have a lot of problems with the 62-year fi…
28 Aug 2006, 07:30
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On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:38:09 -0700, "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <danldo at gmail.com> said: The old autarch was honey steward before his elevation to the Phoenix Throne. ("Paeon, who tra…
25 Aug 2006, 18:08
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Delurking briefly. Imo there are substantial differences in style between the first two Soldier books and the third. Latro, in Mist and Arete, almost seems to be channeling Sever…
27 Jul 2006, 04:30
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