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Computer analysis of word frequency and other stylistic features. Pretty standard in contemporary scholarship. Ron H-E…
19 Apr 2000, 11:51
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Haven't read either the Wolfe or the Lang yet, but wasn't Koshchei the Deathless the grand-high-god-over-everything in James Branch Cabell's mammoth series _The Biography of Dom Ma…
18 Jan 2000, 10:03
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I also don't think it's a good idea to clutter the list with GURPS stuff, but maybe it wouldn't be amiss if you passed on a couple of anecdotes from New Sun campaigns that have alr…
02 Jan 2000, 23:57
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I have in my hands as I write this the book _GURPS New Sun_ by our own Michael Andre-Driussi (aka mantis). For those who still aren't aware of it, it is a supplement to the rolepla…
02 Jan 2000, 17:44
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He didn't -- I did. The edition I'm bringing out has my byline on it as proof. :-) Seriously, for all that the Continental critics claim the author is dead, you don't see them ref…
14 Dec 1999, 16:09
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What people don't seem to realise, and I keep trying to explain, is that it is possible to have *both* a list of hints for reading Wolfe, and a list of suggested answers that do no…
12 Dec 1999, 19:01
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I have already published it here, on 2 December, under the subject line, "FAQ (Seeley's piece)". I still want answers in the FAQ. I fail to see how an InvisiClues/UHS, rot13, or H…
08 Dec 1999, 19:10
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For those of you who can't wait for _GURPS New Sun_, mantis's original _Pyramid_ article is available free on the Web at <http://www.sjgames.com/pyramid/sample.cgi?469>. Mmm. Yumm…
08 Dec 1999, 14:54
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One with answers and one without. I *just* got an email from alga, who is working on combining and editing the two lists. She expressed a couple of similar concerns. Briefly put, …
06 Dec 1999, 19:48
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I got a very nice message from Donn Seeley yesterday; you'll find it below. We have his blessing. alga has volunteered to help me get the list of questions into shape. I hope we'l…
05 Dec 1999, 17:33
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OK, we have mantis's permission to crib from his list of New Sun mysteries. I've been thinking about copyright law, which protects only the expression of a work, not its ideas. (O…
03 Dec 1999, 13:31
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See <http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/newsun/>.…
03 Dec 1999, 13:21
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Here is Donn Seeley's article, as promised. Does anyone know him? Can we get his permission to merge his questions with mantis's? (Thanks, mantis, BTW.) Ron H-E p.s. I believe th…
02 Dec 1999, 17:02
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I'll be glad to post the Seeley list later this afternoon or evening. (I'm on Pacific time.) As for belling the cat, I'll do it if no one else will. But who will watch the Watchme…
02 Dec 1999, 15:37
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Well, Padre, my guess is that the impulse was similar to that shown by the character in _Peace_ who forged the Necronomicon and other much-desired books. Some things we want so muc…
02 Dec 1999, 12:48
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Sorry to get your hopes up. I don't know any more than you do, but in light of Wolfe's almost Oulipean symmetrical language play in the titles of "The Island of Doctor Death", "The…
02 Dec 1999, 12:43
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We all know that the New Sun cycle is filled with deliberate little Lupine mysteries for the reader. Some are relatively easy (who were Severian's parents and grandparents?) and so…
02 Dec 1999, 12:38
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Mantis, you've done an admirable job of not bragging onlist, but I am dying to know when the GURPS New Sun books will be out. I went to the Steve Jackson site, and they said it is …
02 Dec 1999, 12:24
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At 05:45 PM 11/22/99 -0600, Roy wrote: [snip] I think this falls under "willing, temporary suspension of disbelief." The same problems that many on the list see with the plotline…
22 Nov 1999, 16:39
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Time travel is tricky. It may be that at some point after the New Sun comes, Sev returns to the time of the Old Sun and recounts his story (in his role as Conciliator) to a believi…
22 Nov 1999, 16:10
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I have often thought about this myself. If our universe or multiverse were ruled by a personal Creator God, I think I would agree with you. (Hitler created the death camps, but God…
19 Nov 1999, 17:12
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My take on Sev's claim to be a liar is that he is attempting to be as truthful as possible. That is, I have always thought of it in light of the saying that the greatest saints are…
05 Nov 1999, 11:43
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Well, if we are to take Wolfe at his word, he is quoted in _Lexicon Urthus_, p. 159 as saying in an interview, "I view The Book of the New Sun as science fantasy -- by which I mean…
04 Nov 1999, 16:15
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To those who say Severian was modelled more on Claudius than Marcus Aurelius: Uncle! As Jim Henley put it the other day, "I yield to your superior evidence. Indeed, I roll on my ba…
04 Nov 1999, 13:14
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Could be; I have only read the first two Long Sun books, and that some time ago. (One reason is they seem to me to lack the richness of tone that I find in both TBotNS and Marcus A…
03 Nov 1999, 11:25
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alga, to label Dick as a modernist writer is barely comprehensible to me. To me he has always seemed a, if not the, quintessential postmodernist writer. As for his being a hack, re…
27 Oct 1999, 16:39
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I'm new to the list, so please forgive me if this has already been discussed. We know that Wolfe is interested in writing about the classical period from the Soldier books, and th…
27 Oct 1999, 14:32
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Omigoodness. Whenever I hear anyone mention the square-cube law, this very article leaps instantly into my mind. I had no idea it was by Ben Bova (what did I know from Bovas at th…
16 Oct 1999, 01:01
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Or perhaps it was a brand name, or a maker's mark. Greetings, all -- new to the list. Ron H-E…
28 Sep 1999, 12:28
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