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Sincere sympathies and best wishes to those of you fortunate enough to have known GW. RIP…
16 Apr 2019, 13:22
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And Lee: Actually, they do crop up a few times in the third novella. As well as the various references to child-sized indigenous people, there is: "...and the Shadow Children of …
05 Aug 2014, 17:50
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Thanks for posting this, Gwern. Lots of fascinating little tidbits, and some real gold too. But sad, too, to read about GW's health and the loss of his dog.…
28 Jul 2014, 17:32
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Antonin Scriabin wrote (re: The Friendship Light) The 'friends' are HP Lovecraft's Fungi from Yuggoth, who steal human brains. You can read about them in The Whisperer in Darkness…
15 Jul 2014, 14:46
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Marc Aramini wrote I suppose you could read it either way, but I think when the narrator says "Some of the men said that they really liked it," 'they' refers to the women, as it d…
12 May 2014, 20:52
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3000BC is the rough date that is often given to the expression 'the beginning of recorded history', so perhaps that was what he meant. But *why* is that date given? Because it's ro…
30 Apr 2014, 22:06
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Yeah, let's do this. I'm halfway through The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff, which splices a modern murder mystery set in a polygamous Mormon-spinoff community with the story of Ann…
12 Mar 2014, 21:10
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Very sorry to hear that, Aaron. And GW's sad news too.…
17 Dec 2013, 12:54
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From: Mo Holkar Wolfe says in Castle of Days that his mother's family was from there, and that he's always wanted to see the place. (From a Letter to Nancy Kress) Also, once you'…
24 Aug 2013, 19:17
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Craig Brewer Wow. Well, he had a good innings, as Dan'l points out, and he wasn't writing anymore, but this still feels like a sad loss. So many wonderful, exotic worlds. And a bi…
29 May 2013, 21:50
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Pride compels me to admit that I had an incredibly juvenile Wolfean story published in Aboriginal SF Magazine years ago. Shame ensures that I'm not going to tell you which issue.…
16 May 2013, 08:25
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Excellent news. I do have Pennington's 5HoC, Book of Days, Devil in a Forest and Island of Doctor Death (and many other wonderful non-Wolfe BP covers) - but only as paperbacks ala…
23 Apr 2013, 22:17
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Actually, it's called the country of *sliding* stones, unless my copy of 5HoC has a typo. Which doesn't have quite the same connotations, nor map as easily to the 'shifting' of the…
30 Mar 2013, 10:59
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Well, it's not the third day without the sleeping place, it's the third 'empty' day - the third day you come home emptyhanded. I imagine that the first couple of times the tribe do…
29 Mar 2013, 11:26
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I don’t think this passage is about sacrifice to a magic sleeping place. It’s just a poetic way of saying ?If you don’t provide food for the the tribe, the tribe will move on witho…
28 Mar 2013, 17:26
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There's some historical evidence too. Poised to make the killing stroke, Anne Boleyn's executioner is supposed to have said "Boy, fetch my sword" to misdirect her at the crucial mo…
15 Oct 2012, 22:27
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I'm a huge Robert Aickman fan, and definitely recommend him as of interest to Wolfe readers. As John Barach says, he's a writer who implies things rather than saying them outright…
12 Oct 2012, 22:54
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I don't know... GW might argue that in the context of Civil War era America, a stoppered bottle of sticky pop would more realistically have a crumbly label than a pristine one. He …
13 Jun 2012, 10:45
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I can’t let this one pass without mentioning that Against the Lafayette Escadrille is not only one of my favourite Wolfe short stories, but one of my favourite short stories full s…
12 Jun 2012, 09:11
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The Voices of Time. A great story.…
03 May 2012, 07:48
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Some of the Tolkien fans on the list might find this interesting - or at least amusing. http://good-report.com/5861/just-released-from-the-bbc-a-rare-1968-interview-with-j-r-r-tol…
02 May 2012, 19:06
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Actually, that's Stow-on-the-Wold, but excellent job on digging up those film references. Stoke-on-Wold sounds like a combination of Stow-on-the-Wold and Stoke-on-Trent. I used to…
07 Apr 2012, 21:30
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And David Stockhoff: It certainly doesn't address the argument I was making. I don't think that's true, Antronio, but it's not worth arguing over. We don't make life any easier …
18 Apr 2011, 21:10
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He takes a break on page *two* of his memoirs? In the middle of writing an exciting bit? I don't find that very persuasive. Moreover, the reason we know about these little interrup…
17 Apr 2011, 19:18
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and Ant?nio Pedro Marques: A few reasons why I feel this way: Firstly, because substituting one name for another is an easy mistake for a writer to make, and a hard one for an edi…
16 Apr 2011, 20:53
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I've always felt that this looks far more like a faux-pas on the part of Wolfe than anything to do with Severian's memory.…
16 Apr 2011, 09:48
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Fantastic. Thanks for that, Jeff.…
10 Feb 2011, 14:18
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This is possibly a bit redundant now, but: yes.…
07 Jan 2011, 21:06
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In his cell VRT writes that he remembers his mother making herself unattractive when his father came home drunk, using "the muscles of her face." He adds "I have the same ability, …
07 Jan 2011, 20:11
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(See? I can do new subject headings, if that's what people want. :-) ) Some problems with this line of reasoning. Firstly, there *is* no recently-lost spaceship in the text. You …
07 Jan 2011, 13:28
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Almost. :-) I'm suggesting humans came to St Anne long ago, were imitated by the indigenous shapechangers, and these imitations became Shadow Children... but that the humans became…
06 Jan 2011, 18:36
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Should be: the last event in 'A Story'. Sorry.…
06 Jan 2011, 10:42
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An earthly origin, or perhaps that humanity on both Earth and St Anne is the result of some earlier galactic expansion. I find the idea pretty far-fetched to say the least - but al…
06 Jan 2011, 10:21
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It's only about a hundred years since the French arrived. But their arrival is the last event in 'VRT', when the starcrosser splashes down, and Sandwalker and the Shadow Children a…
06 Jan 2011, 10:07
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Ugh, some atrocious typos in that last post. Sorry, written in haste.…
05 Jan 2011, 17:32
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I think you're right, the Shadow Children enable the aboriginal 'dreaming' of this world. The native telepathic race are described as receiving the thought of another and sending i…
05 Jan 2011, 17:22
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So there is a native telepathic race *and* a human race that has rediscovered telepathy? I find that messy. Exactly. This is how they see themselves. And since how they see themse…
04 Jan 2011, 22:55
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They also say "'we are taller than you, and stronger. And wrapped in terrible glory... our glance withers, and we sing death to our enemies." None of this is true. The reality, as…
04 Jan 2011, 20:00
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Lee Berman I honestly don't understand what you're saying here or why you're saying it. I think we have crossed wire. All I am saying is: 'with reference to theories in which Dr …
04 Jan 2011, 19:28
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It is Dr Marsch, a human, who writes that the carcass is 15 pounds. There is no reason to think VRT imagines a dray horse has tiny little organs. No, I was in the camp that pointe…
04 Jan 2011, 15:10
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Actually, it's not as clear cut as that. The Old Wise One says: "we also hear the mind-singing of our brothers - who do not sing - as they pass up and down between the stars... th…
04 Jan 2011, 10:51
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Apologies for all the spurious '?'s in my last post. It seems to be something to do with cutting and pasting from another word app, if people want to avoid the same problem. Anyway…
04 Jan 2011, 10:21
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Even if they could, it wouldn’t solve the problem. Why does VRT start off so much worse than the other supposedly abo kids? Why does he remain so? I don’t understand. How is VRT d…
03 Jan 2011, 19:25
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What we have is prima facie evidence that a known abo, VRT, was so much worse at handwriting than everyone else that he was beaten for it by his teachers.If, as you argue, Veil's H…
03 Jan 2011, 11:05
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Yes and yes, definitely. I couldn't be objective about them if I tried. It was a very exciting time to be young and reading SF: here were these superlative-laden covers cropping up…
01 Jan 2011, 21:28
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Hi Daniel, are you familiar with the bewitching covers Bruce Pennington did for the first British paperback edition of the New Sun tetralogy? If not, these clumsy, long-ago scans …
01 Jan 2011, 18:50
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Or Wolfe does.…
16 Aug 2010, 21:30
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Apheta says that the Hierogrammates will "build" more worlds, and stars for them if required. Note the order. So I don't see any Big Bang in Yesod's future. Or indeed in its past…
16 Aug 2010, 18:11
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As a point of interest, Apheta says the stars of Yesod aren't so much fakes as haven't been built yet, and they can only be seen because "time runs as we ask here, and we like thei…
14 Aug 2010, 22:17
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This exchange, perhaps: chapter XXX, when Sev's in the Chowder Pot: He examined it, bit it, and gave it back to me. "Gold all right. Looks a trifle like you, 'cept he seems to have…
14 Aug 2010, 11:14
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