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Marc Aramini writing originally: Then Blattid adding: Among my many works-in-progress (most of which will probably never see light of day), but promised to another venue, is an e…
17 Sep 2002, 01:01
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Crush responding: Almost certain I posted this somewhere, but couldn't find it myself, so let me attempt a brief reprise. In the process of describing their visit to Mainframe, w…
31 Aug 2002, 20:43
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I (Extending a right hand blithely across the aether.) How do you do, Crush! I've never met anyone on the list either, although Nigel Price and I talked about getting together la…
29 Aug 2002, 00:12
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Stone Ox writes: But look who imparts this information about the weekend tragedy and the boarding house connection: Dan French, who, not having been a factory employee at the time…
23 Aug 2002, 05:53
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Roy done writ: [Best to skip here my own personal travails in the decline of my brain, with sidejaunts down Nostalgia Avenue saved for unappreciative grandchildren.] Don't agree …
18 Aug 2002, 05:26
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mantis having speculated: "But what if the normal sepia man really is a man that neither one has ever seen--what if he is Tilly?" I rather like this idea, and I believe StoneOx a…
09 Aug 2002, 21:37
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Roy responding to me again: I was going by the timeline in the Peace Indexicon, where under the Golden Year, six events are listed, including the following: "Charlie Turner, the d…
08 Aug 2002, 18:32
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Adam S. pondering: "And why does Charlie not mention the second picture in his letter?" Not sure if you think we don't know what is in the second photo, Adam, or simply that Char…
07 Aug 2002, 06:25
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Barker Roy again, from that Texas grab-joint of his: Hattiesburg, Mississippi--or somewhere around there. At least according to Charlie that's where the carnival is playing when D…
05 Aug 2002, 19:19
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Dog-determined Roy has written: --Ah, yes. I had forgotten that the mysterious Mr. Mason was the father of Candy and Arline, as well as Doris. That's another strike against the id…
04 Aug 2002, 17:53
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Deep in the heart of Texas, with his calendar and stopwatch in hand, Roy L. has written: I don't agree with this. They may _seem_ to take place on the same day, but also on that s…
03 Aug 2002, 00:34
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Jen Van Gee again, still in a genealogical vein, writing: Well, don't walk too far out on that limb or you'll displace me because I've been arguing the Catherine-Contessa connecti…
30 Jul 2002, 01:07
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J-the-Genealogist having self-corrected herself: Glad you caught this, because any daughter by Dorcas would be at least 50 years old (Severian making the trip to Yesod in the tent…
29 Jul 2002, 18:23
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The bug-eyed one having writ: I don't like the suicide theory either (can't see Silk committing selbstmord, it being too heinous a sin in Wolfe's Catholicism), but like the-slash-…
09 Jul 2002, 19:48
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Jay Fred appending the following long list of nested names: Hokey smokes! That's a long list--for which I commend and thank thee. Some preliminary thoughts. I deliberately did n…
21 Jun 2002, 17:18
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Jeff Wilson quoting me first, then appending: "For starters the names "Juturna" and "Idas" derive from classical mythology, and if we adhere to Wolfe's rule of names--a rule I be…
19 Jun 2002, 17:25
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The landbound Blattid arguing: "The undines, as near as can be told, _are_ homo sapiens -- they are more advanced cases of the process to which Baldanders has been subjecting hims…
17 Jun 2002, 22:54
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Blattid having rebutted: No argument there, and I should probably have used something a little more qualitative like "according to non-canon tradition" or "according to the Book o…
31 May 2002, 06:10
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The cockroach having written: It's from the Book of Jubilees (Chapter 4: Verse 9): "And in the sixth week [Adam] begat his daughter Azura. And Cain took Awan his sister to be his…
30 May 2002, 05:55
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Lots and lots of commentary on "Tracking Song" in the early days of the list, but not much since, so I thought I'd upload my own interpretation. Is it possible that Gene Wolfe, dr…
29 May 2002, 06:07
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Rostrum writing:…
14 May 2002, 21:39
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hartshorn having attempted to throttle my base 9 theory thusly: "The children are in their childish way making mistakes." "By the way 7 + 17 = 25 in base 9" Yes. But if indeed t…
12 May 2002, 06:54
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Jerry F. having opined: "Wolfe could easily provide us with certain evidence of the abos if he wanted to. Just as an example, when Marsch meets Trenchard, he could note, 'This old…
02 May 2002, 04:26
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More mini-reviews of some of Wolfe's uncollected short fiction, or as I've taken to calling them, lupets. "Eleventh City." The fourth of Wolfe's Sam Cooper stories, featuring an i…
28 Apr 2002, 18:52
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Quoth the newly-monickered Sepia: <Believing that the inhumi can only breed on Green implies that the Neigbors have to return to replenish their "stock," or that they have found s…
03 May 2001, 12:30
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Dr. Nick has written: <A few months ago, I urged Ellen Datlow to run a Gene Wolfe story on SCI FICTION, and lo--whether because of my suggestion or without reference to it--she ha…
26 Apr 2001, 12:28
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Nacre has written: <Also, as I recall (and I'm afraid that I don't have the book here for reference, so we'll have to depend on my recollection), Fava had to be very careful not t…
26 Apr 2001, 01:18
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Nick Gevers has written the following: <Mora isn't travelling astrally in the same manner as Horn--she's doing, with or without Fava, what Mucor does, possessing others. Perhaps F…
23 Apr 2001, 11:04
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Nutria dipping his ratty tail into electric ink and writing: <Surely you don't still maintain this? If so, you should take up the arguments presented against it. Also, since you n…
19 Apr 2001, 20:46
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Kevin J. Maroney writing: <That seems contrary to the idea of "small godlings". If the Narrator is indeed thinking of Pig a small godling, it seems odd to call him that when he's …
19 Apr 2001, 16:51
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Shellac having expostulated: <Hold on. I don't think that hierodule necessarily = hierogrammate. My impression was that "Hierodule" covered all aliens. Dr. Talos suggests "extra…
22 Mar 2001, 00:58
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Dastardly Dan Parmeter having argued: <BTW, in examining the archives, a few of us (including Alga I think) speculated that the Urthly Cumaean seemed a likely Inhuma. Nothing I've…
20 Mar 2001, 14:15
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<What the Greater Scylla taught Horn was how to summon the Mother, as Alex David Groce says.> Adam and Alex: All right, let me try to state this as simply as I can. Call me an i…
14 Mar 2001, 13:53
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Vizcacha the wonderer writes: <Wolfe has a habit of introducing a mystery, having Silk/Horn state that he knows the answer, and then not saying what it is. Does anyone here know t…
11 Mar 2001, 14:38
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archy's cousin having t-y-p-e-d: <Which lets us mix the symbolism in yet another way -- Horn is very much Silk's spiritual son; after the death on Green, the son and the father ar…
26 Feb 2001, 21:46
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The unusually-gracious-of-late William Ansley having written: <Wow, Robert! This is most impressive. Wolfe mentioned godlings in OBW and I had totally forgotten it until you menti…
22 Feb 2001, 00:52
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Wolfe is currently 1100 pages into a new work tentatively entitled "The Wizard Knight." After he finishes it, he hopes to write one or two more Soldier books - or so he's told me.…
29 Nov 2000, 07:09
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David Lomax has already mentioned the Oreb angle, and it seems hard to believe that Incanto-the-inhumu could fool the wise bird whereas Quetzal, the Bean and Jahlee couldn't. Yet …
16 Aug 2000, 02:12
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<So, Robert is wrong: we *do* actually meet Father Inire in the main narrative, and Robert is right, masks have to do with the matter.> Congratulations, Dan! You're absolutely rig…
21 Apr 1999, 02:36
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raster having written: "But it occurs to me that your theory can still be salvaged. If Agia isn't trying to filch the Claw, then she must be after the keys. We know S. has the …
16 Oct 1998, 12:00
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Sean/prion: It's kinda neat--your idea of David being Maitre #2, the junior officer who reviews VRT's case. I'm not sure I buy it--David's a wee bit on the spoiled side if you ask…
20 Jul 1998, 22:10
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Time now to consider "Cues," possibly Gene Wolfe's most cryptic short work. It's also extremely scatological if I read it right--wicked, wicked Gene is playing a wicked, wicked jok…
05 Jul 1998, 20:42
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Haven't been to a movie in years and don't own a television (I'm hearing-impaired and loathe close-captioning), so I'm a little out of touch when it comes to current actors and act…
13 May 1998, 14:22
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