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I could have sworn that I read that in an interview at one point, but I can't find confirmation anywhere, so maybe I hallucinated it.…
08 Nov 2008, 18:29
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I haven't "done" Wolfe, but I have been inspired by some other SF writers: "The Up-and-Out" (Cordwainer Smith) http://www.doubtfulpalace.com/artists/Shalmaneser/Ticker/07_the_up-a…
08 Nov 2008, 08:06
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I hereby volunteer to compile and master the tracks, and host them on my site if that's what we want to do. Probably the highest-profile Wolfe-related piece of music already exta…
08 Nov 2008, 05:46
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And her boyfriend is one of the best acoustic guitarists on the planet.…
07 Nov 2008, 22:32
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Gorgeous stuff! And hey, Sleepytime! I love those guys.…
06 Nov 2008, 22:38
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Thanks! Is that Mike Patton's thing, or am I misremembering? The name is familiar, anyway. <google google> Looks like I had the wrong Mr. Bungle guy. Are the illustrations on-lin…
06 Nov 2008, 20:24
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You're right; I was being lazy. I'll retry if I get time to think it through.…
06 Nov 2008, 20:16
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If I don't like the trapeze artist's performance, I can go see a different trapeze artist. If I don't like my dictator, I'm out of luck. No matter how benevolent the dictator's in…
06 Nov 2008, 19:19
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I saw it in the weirdest possible way: performing a live improvised soundtrack to it. It seemed really good, but I'm not sure I can trust my opinion under the circumstances.…
05 Nov 2008, 07:18
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I would swap Castleview and Free Live Free, but other than that you've captured my opinion exactly.…
10 Oct 2008, 15:54
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Not a salad, but a salad dressing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_goddess_dressing Tasty, too.…
02 Oct 2008, 06:03
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Enormous folk band Bellowhead's new album is called MATACHIN (after the sword dance, but hey). Fortunately, Bellowhead rule: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBE5ovRJQn8 http://ww…
01 Oct 2008, 06:54
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And here's my band's version of it, if anyone wants to listen to it: http://doubtfulpalace.com/artists/PledgeDrive/shenandoah.mp3…
18 Sep 2008, 20:29
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I've always loved this story as well. Perhaps because it's relatively simple, it's extremely memorable.…
22 Aug 2008, 16:53
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"Forlesen" immediately springs to mind.…
21 Aug 2008, 19:28
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And Robert Aickman, Kelly Link, Ted Chiang, and the late great Thomas M. Disch.…
21 Aug 2008, 17:34
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I'm no physicist, but wouldn't this happen only if the mercury were in perfect equilibrium on both sides? Otherwise the downward pressure on the side with more mercury would push t…
03 Jul 2008, 00:37
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James Blaylock's THE DIGGING LEVIATHAN is outstanding, but it's steampunk in a very different way from most such. His more straightforwardly steampunk LORD KELVIN'S MACHINE is pre…
13 May 2008, 00:36
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Moorcock is wildly uneven, but his best books (MOTHER LONDON and GLORIANA) are very much worth reading. I would also add BETWEEN THE WARS (the four-volume novel beginning with BYZA…
12 May 2008, 17:42
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I would consider myself both, I think. I just looked over my LibraryThing database and the last 100 books I read were almost equally split between SF/F and non-. I keep a list o…
11 May 2008, 07:37
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"Heart of oak" is a phrase strongly associated with (and occasionally metonymically representing) the British navy.…
28 Nov 2007, 17:11
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Spotted in the Borderlands Books (San Francisco sf/f/h bookstore) newsletter: ------ The Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Club will meet on Sunday, August 19th, at 6 pm to discu…
12 Aug 2007, 08:03
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Specifically, that the Autarch was Catherine, his mother. See the last essay in _Strokes_.…
12 Jul 2007, 06:09
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So when a study disagrees with your theory, it's because the archaeologist is a bumbling idiot who's no match for a meticulous researcher like Plato, but when it agrees with your t…
21 Jun 2007, 17:16
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It's a good thing there are no such theories in play, then. Mutual infertility in no way implies a lack of fucky-wucky.…
21 Jun 2007, 16:13
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A lot depends on who's getting the recommendation. Much of the pleasure of BotNS and later fiction lies in the way Wolfe treats and/or subverts standard sf and fantasy tropes, an…
15 Jun 2007, 05:57
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_Before Adam_ uses the same trope, IIRC.…
14 Jun 2007, 22:38
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And Fletcher Pratt, who I think is less well known than he should be (G. G. Kay and G.R.R. Martin owe him plenty).…
09 Jun 2007, 18:22
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Lyonesse highlighted this as well, as there are several child characters... all of whom converse in Vance-speak just like the adults. Not that I don't love it! But like P.G. Wode…
05 Jun 2007, 02:23
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I ordered a copy of the sample volume as a gift for a friend, and it was so ugly I almost didn't give it to him. Eventually I came to my senses and realized that, like most peopl…
05 Jun 2007, 02:06
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Sorry to be responding to this thread so late, but I just got back from a month's vacation. I have a couple of Wolfe-related music items in my collection: 1. Turtle Island Stri…
24 Apr 2007, 02:37
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No, they don't. Nathan Spears' citation ("Two children borne by her earlier") is exactly analogous to Wolfe's clause ("the Severian of bone and flesh borne by Catherine in a ce…
28 Oct 2006, 06:15
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The point is that "borne by" is what Wolfe would write if he meant that Catherine gave birth to Severian in the cell, because "born by" is wrong. "Borne" is, in fact, a valid p…
27 Oct 2006, 08:51
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My old _Webster's_ says: born, a. [pp. of bear (to give birth): now used only in passive constructions not followed by _by_.] I disagree. Who would say "carried in a cell"? You…
27 Oct 2006, 04:33
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Astronaut/painter Alan Bean has several near misses: http://galleryone.com/bean_prints.htm I can't find one with all the elements Wolfe mentions, but perhaps there's one somewh…
22 Oct 2006, 03:51
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