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A propos new articles, here's another one. It's an interesting article with nothing particularly striking for seasoned lupines but significant for signs that Wolfe is receiving a…
27 Aug 2008, 14:22
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Pavel, If Ur means in Czech what it does in German, viz., "a long time ago," "originally," then the connotation of "Urzeme" is directly the opposite of what Wolfe was trying to …
24 Apr 2008, 17:57
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Thanks for this info, Nick. A pity indeed. Ron Crown…
19 Sep 2007, 13:35
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This sounds like an project that would interest Lupines. http://sfscope.com/2007/09/dozois-and-martin-sell-jack-va.html Pretty impressive line-up of potential contributors but I'…
18 Sep 2007, 17:16
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It's been a long time since I've posted but I'll delurk momentarily since I had the privilege of meeting Gene and his wife this morning at Nasfic in Collinsville, IL. He held a Ka…
05 Aug 2007, 22:40
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And far superior to Harness' much-touted Paradox Men (aka Flight into Yesterday) which to my mind, is too "Van Vogtian" (not ir-rational but non-rational). Ron Crown…
07 Aug 2003, 14:32
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Has anyone read this book by Charles Harness (published by NESFA Press)? I mention it because it's reminiscent of There Are Doors--written in a kind of magic realism with class…
06 Aug 2003, 14:53
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Since there's been so much discussion of Wolfe's "Greek" novels, I thought y'all might enjoy seeing some Wolfe translated into Greek at the site below; specifically, Wolfe's stor…
23 Jun 2003, 14:11
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I just read this story from Greg Ketter's Shelf Life anthology (rare book lovers, N.B. the title). Good, solid Wolfe, with an amusing pun which is also a clue. It's also another …
11 Jan 2003, 16:58
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The excerpt from Wizard Knight to be published in the Fall issue of Conjunctions (mentioned by Nick Gevers a while back) is available online at the Conjunctions website. Pretty im…
03 Oct 2002, 18:41
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The following items are listed in the "Forthcoming books" section of the Locus website. Do any list members know details of the contents? I imagine at least one or two of you are…
24 Aug 2001, 09:05
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I will temporarily de-lurk to offer a couple of mini-reviews of IGJ from important trade publications (Library Journal has a big impact on library sales). Library Journal, July…
07 Aug 2000, 09:59
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Since things are rather slow on the list, I thought I would share a couple of recent extra-genre references to Wolfe which show that our man is making his mark in the larger world.…
24 Mar 2000, 12:00
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Further clues on narrator's identity: The name of his clone-sister is Jeanine; by the naming convention for siblings we see elsewhere in Wolfe (e.g. Severian-Severa), this should …
02 Apr 1998, 08:55
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The Sunday Magazine of the Oct. 5 Chicago Tribune has a long article about Wolfe titled "The Urth Man Cometh." There isn't much that will be news to most lupine types but one comm…
06 Oct 1997, 13:46
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In trying to track down any information on the finger-to-chin gesture used in "Tracking Song," I came across a Dictionary of Gestures (yes, such things exist) which lists no less t…
12 Sep 1997, 15:44
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We'll soon run out of Smith stories to list (in my book, only the Casher O'Neill stories fail to exercise the Smith magic) but, in addition to those listed, I would include "Drunkb…
12 Sep 1997, 11:46
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[donning pedantic mask] Not that it makes a great deal of difference to anything BUT in the interest of accuracy, I checked in a couple of reference sources here and, although the …
02 Sep 1997, 12:55
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Alga, no I'm not cephalo, I'm not anything Vironese (yet, anyway.) Wolfe interview: the full question and answer from which Gordon took the quote is as follows: Gordon: You marke…
29 Aug 1997, 15:07
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Vacation and the start of a new semester have kept me away from several weeks, but catching up with the discussion on "Tracking Song" has been sehr interessant! (sorry, vacation w…
27 Aug 1997, 10:45
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Yeah, I guess I took the "mama dominating" part and made a mental leap to Mama=Mary(ia) without checking to see if she is actually called Maria in the story, bu I checked and she i…
21 Jul 1997, 09:03
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Thanks to Nutria and Mantis for your respective tours de force of Changeling. A couple of additional observations to buttress the Catholic Church scenario: in addition to the ref…
17 Jul 1997, 12:27
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Nutria, you're in good company in your puzzlement over "Changeling;" when Damon Knight reprinted "Changeling" in a best-of Orbit collection from the first ten volumes; he prefaced …
15 Jul 1997, 09:46
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I forgot to mention the name the crew of the ship gave to the planet-- Neuerddraht--German, obviously, neu is new, erd I take to be short for Erde, i.e., earth or world, and Draht …
13 Jul 1997, 15:50
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Well, I don't know whether to feel good because I had sort of figured out the answer to this (but I didn't KNOW that I knew), or stupid because I should have known (I mean, there a…
13 Jul 1997, 14:10
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Mantis, would you mind expanding on this a little bit? "Alien Stones" strikes me as more genuinely hard sf than is usual for Wolfe (and would fit more appropriately, IMHO, in _The…
13 Jul 1997, 14:02
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Alga, I was disinclined to the "antichrist" motif because I take the word in a strict sense, i.e., anti-messiah. If Marilyn=Mary (which I was also disinclined toward--Now if Maril…
09 Jul 1997, 16:56
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Although in general terms, I can buy some type of generic apocalyptic scenario for this story, I think the evidence is thin at best for the "antichrist" motif; the shadow being is …
08 Jul 1997, 09:42
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Alga mentioned a while back that The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories is coming out soon and would be fun to discuss. I've been reading a couple of Wolfe…
03 Jul 1997, 09:30
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After Kevin McGuire's post on his question similar to mine during the PEOPLE interview, I checked the transcript for Wolfe's answer which is given as follows: (emphasis added) "Q…
27 Jun 1997, 11:52
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I've been away from the list for a while and just getting caught up and trying to come up with a good question--hard to do if you don't have such a detailed recollection of the tex…
26 Jun 1997, 11:30
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But the difference is that the T symbol was not originally part of a state religion but becomes such as part of Huxley's ironic comment on the divinisation of the material (or vic…
02 Jun 1997, 09:32
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Matthew, do you (or anyone else for that matter) know how many issues of 'The Book of Gold' were produced? I received a copy of #2 but never heard of any more after that. I'm e…
01 Jun 1997, 12:51
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Since things seem to be rather quiet right now, perhaps this is an opportune moment for my first post. I've been lurking almost from day one on WHORL but haven't had much time to …
30 May 1997, 10:07
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