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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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Rostrum writing: <I thought the main objection to the godlings is that in Act 1 (New Sun) the author goes into detail about why anything that big would have to live in the sea or …
19 Apr 2001, 13:20
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Here's another little mystery from ON BLUE'S WATERS. While at sea, sailing to Pajarocu, with Babbie and Seawrack aboard, Horn records the following encounter during a storm with a…
16 Apr 2001, 00:58
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William Ansley, in a curmudgeonly mode, having written: <What do I mean by "loose ends"? Well, if I had the time and energy (which I currently do not and almost certainly will not…
08 Apr 2001, 02:47
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Adam-the-Greek conjecturing: <(Or are there six passengers? Babbie is present at the meeting with Daisy, and if my theory is correct the writer of the last paragraph could have s…
31 Mar 2001, 13:47
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Some random thoughts about Pajarocu, the phantom town. The name apparently derives from pajarraco, Spanish for 'mysterious bird' (pàjaro = bird), which ties in with Wijzer's littl…
29 Mar 2001, 20:49
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Crateowl having come out of the dark woods long enough to post: <I don't know what to make of the fact that the Neighbour said his name was also Horn. The only (I think) other Nei…
28 Mar 2001, 00:34
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Here's another little scene from the Short Sun troika I'm puzzling over. Horn has transported himself, Fava, and a number of Soldese from a snowy hillside on Blue to a prison cell…
26 Mar 2001, 14:05
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Shellac having gracefully conceded the following: <Okay, point taken. I remembered the line about "holy slave" after I posted. I suppose the only legs that the Cumaean-as-Inhuma h…
24 Mar 2001, 00:53
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Shellac, having inhaled a little too much of himself in a closed room, writing: <But more importantly, why do you and everyone else cling to this notion that Seawrack was given to…
22 Mar 2001, 01:25
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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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Some more questions for those of you arguing that the Mother and Greater Scylla of Urth are from the same, galaxy-conquering, bad-ass family of aliens who all speak the same lingua…
16 Mar 2001, 11:28
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Adam S. again, asking: <What, then, is your interpretation of Horn's statement "I asked the Greater Scylla on the Red Sun Whorl how I could find Seawrack again. She taught me how …
15 Mar 2001, 12:49
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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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First up, re the Neighbors having two heads: of course, I misread my own argument from my original post about Pas-as-alien ("Typhon's Home: Pas as Neighbor," Vol. 11). What I faile…
13 Mar 2001, 12:13
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Adam S., in a non-confused mode, professing: <I may be missing something again, but I don't see the problem here. The Mother is a goddess of the Neighbors; why wouldn't she have b…
12 Mar 2001, 23:39
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Patera Nutria, my fellow quinquagenarian, having asked: <3. I cannot recall evidence that Neighbors have two heads. Neither Babbie nor any of the other indigenous lifeforms of Blu…
12 Mar 2001, 23:19
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First Alex Groce wrote: <Fine and well, but you still haven't dealt with the fact that when Severian meets Typhon in SWORD, Typhon doesn't remotely resemble a Neighbor, in any way…
12 Mar 2001, 17:00
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Skeptical Kevin M. having peed on my Pas-as-Neighbor speculations: <A. We don't know that there are. There's no evidence whatsoever to judge what criteria Typhon used to select th…
12 Mar 2001, 15:01
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Gamemeister Maroney (Unplugged) having asked: <Why would we believe that Pas is a Neighbor?> Well, as I've been arguing for some time now, I believe this notion answers more ques…
12 Mar 2001, 12:14
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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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BMeyer having pondered twicely: <I asked once before, but received no responses. What happened on p. 266-67 with Merryn and the dog? Jahlee says "Merryn had trouble with animals, …
10 Mar 2001, 14:42
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Lots of little mysteries in the SHORT SUN books. For instance: who is Colonel Terzo and why can he alone, of all the people that Horn encounters, hear Seawrack's distant singing? …
01 Mar 2001, 22:08
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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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vizcacha having written: <In fact, spinning this into more of an idea, what if Horn/Silk's wounds were made by a godling? I brought this idea up before but didn't have any idea fo…
26 Feb 2001, 16:40
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Several minutes ago, while waiting for the caffeine to suffuse its way through the blood-brain barrier, I wrote: <Then a couple of years later when this same man--or maybe it's no…
23 Feb 2001, 13:02
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No one seems to have liked my Kypris-Seawrack theory, so I've done a bit of retooling and have come up with the following alternative: Seawrack is driven from her underwater home …
23 Feb 2001, 12:34
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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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El cucaracha having written: <Tartaros is not only blind, was not only born blind, but is utterly and incurably and inalterably blind; even when riding/in possession of Auk, he ca…
21 Feb 2001, 22:21
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Patrick O'Leary having written: <3. Pig is not a godling. Think of difference between the two: One an artificial being (a combo of chem and Super Talus, I'd say) and a three dimen…
21 Feb 2001, 17:01
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Whatever happens to the entity I see variously as Pig, Babbie, or Tartaros? Given the multivalent and/or composite nature of many of the characters in SHORT SUN, this may not be al…
19 Feb 2001, 12:34
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Part IV of V-part Piggie Sequence; if you haven't read its predecessors you may be confused. One of the things I've always wondered about is the provenance of the ring given to Ho…
19 Feb 2001, 00:59
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Fernando Gouvea having written: <About the secret of the inhumi: can we trust the text here? Since Silk/Horn is writing a "public" document, might he have put down a bowdlerized v…
14 Feb 2001, 13:16
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Woo-hoo! I finally found the passage I was looking for in IGJ. What seems to have thrown many of us off in RTTW is that only Horn/Silk's arm injuries are mentioned when the farmer…
12 Feb 2001, 21:37
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For a long time now, and well before the publication of RTTW, I've been wondering if there might be a connection between Babbie the hus and the blind giant known as Pig. Part of th…
12 Feb 2001, 15:10
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Some responses to vizcacha's fine second reading of RTTW. <2) It's quite obvious to me that RttW, and to a lesser extent TBotSS as a whole, is a long suicide note. Clearly Silk wa…
12 Feb 2001, 01:58
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Shortly after Pig, Hound, and Horn reach New Viron, Pig confesses to a terrible crime: in one of his looting sprees, he's killed an augur. This, he professes, took place before he …
10 Feb 2001, 12:46
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Much of how I view the resolution of SHORT SUN is bound up in how I interpret the character of Pig, so I'm going to devote a number of posts to him. When Hound registers Pig at Er…
10 Feb 2001, 12:46
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Rostrum having weighed the evidence and decided: <"hush.og"? Looks like a website for librarians. I suppose that's supposed to say "hush og"? And I guess you mean that the orig…
04 Dec 2000, 10:48
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After trying for the past four years to figure out the etymology of hus, but failing, I decided to go to the man himself for help, and here is what he told me: "Hus is a little em…
02 Dec 2000, 12:54
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Earlier today mantis having speculated: <1) Re the artificial-seeming age/decay of the buildings on Ste. Croix. (Have we already talked about how) This is another strong pointer t…
29 Nov 2000, 17:31
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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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For anyone who hasn't read Wolfe's EMPIRES OF FOLIAGE AND FLOWERS yet, you can get it real cheap at www.salebooks.com (Daedalus Books), which is offering the hardcover edition of B…
15 Nov 2000, 13:37
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Blattid having wondered: I'm one of the people who believe this and say so both on my website and in my 5H review in Ultan's Library. I have three reasons for so doing. 1) The l…
14 Nov 2000, 12:47
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Dan'l Blattid having further amended his original post thusly: <In other words: There _is_ an Earthborn anthropologist; that is beyond any reasonable doubt. What I am suggesting …
11 Nov 2000, 01:12
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Blattid having written: <Also, is there any reason to believe that there was ever a real John V. Marsch? I mean, by that name -- there clearly was a homeworld anthropologist. I a…
10 Nov 2000, 01:30
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mantis having written: <Oh good: now we can see that interviews, while providing some data points, are not necessarily the be-all and end-all. I mean, not to complain or anything…
06 Nov 2000, 13:45
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I've been enjoying immensely the recent series of posts on PEACE--quite possibly my all-time favorite list discussion--so please accept my thanks and congratulations to everyone wh…
05 Nov 2000, 17:24
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Wondering what you have to look forward to once the Short Sun trilogy concludes? Here's the early word on Wolfe's current project, tentatively entitled THE WIZARD KNIGHT, straight…
17 Oct 2000, 13:18
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