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Here's a picture of a Hong Kong street that might serve as an imagination aid: http://www.flickr.com/photos/move_lachine/3511703292/in/set-72157594318161277/…
31 Aug 2010, 15:19
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So what's this "dark flow" nonsense I have been hearing about in recent months?…
15 Jul 2010, 17:43
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Of course. But I would never think a nifty science-fictioney reading would preclude an allegorical or symbolic reading.…
14 Jul 2010, 02:53
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Thanks for bringing this up, this gives me some food for thought with regard to the "down is up" thing I am on about lately. E.g. Typhon throws Severian into the sled, they plumme…
13 Jul 2010, 21:05
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There's something nicely alpha/omega-ish to the idea that the Increate is at both top and bottom. Like the two statues that flank a major Buddhist temple - one them with its mouth …
13 Jul 2010, 20:40
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Remember that in BotNS it is spelled out that the cosmology involves an expansion / big crunch concept of the universe - I apologize for being bad with quotes on this list but when…
13 Jul 2010, 20:19
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The Claw did not work on her. Didn't the Claw also not work on Jonas? Why didn't the Claw work on Jolenta?…
02 Jun 2010, 14:19
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I assumed Nessus was really really big. It's very old, still expanding, and yet there is a bunch of real estate inside the wall that is rural. How big in diameter does the Whorl n…
18 May 2010, 21:06
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It would most likely be vastly more difficult to build the thing on earth. But if you have access to good contragrav technology, not impossible, right? Wasn't Typhon at odds with …
18 May 2010, 18:43
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This thread was interesting for a very brief time and then it became annoying, and more annoying by degrees, until I realized that I cannot stand to read another word typed by,…
20 May 2009, 02:24
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I read it a couple years ago and really enjoyed it, but I don't recall what, if any, resolution I arrived at for who shot Gloin. Is it completely impossible that Mark actually s…
15 May 2009, 12:33
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No! You cannot have this. ;/…
15 Apr 2009, 12:27
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Did you really mean to include Short Sun in the list of books / series that are not the same? And not Knight / Wizard? What strikes me about the later books is that the narrativ…
14 Apr 2009, 12:08
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I'm going to chime in late, well after the thread has outlived its usefulness, and share that I believe the Amendment was intended to keep arms among the citizenry to enable gueril…
18 Mar 2009, 18:56
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I have a particularly vivid memory from before I could walk or talk. I was crawling along the floor of the kitchen and I found the dog's bowl. I remember thinking, since the do…
05 Dec 2008, 14:13
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I haven't read the book yet, but if there is some kind of conflict between cthulu and the US military, then shame on you for spoiling it.…
08 Oct 2008, 16:49
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The "permanent traffic jam" concept reminds me of a short story I read in F&SF many years ago by an author I do not recall. I believe it was called "Gas Mask."…
28 Aug 2008, 12:07
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I never really considered that there was an actual channel of mercury running down the core of the blade. I always assumed this was just how Severian described some bit of lost…
03 Jul 2008, 03:36
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uh. Alright, I think this post is completely full of win. But there is a chance it is completely full of fail. Either way, it's amazing that I can even type this email consideri…
21 Mar 2008, 03:29
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Well, a bit of wikipediaing leads me to guess that the pirate adventures take place somewhere between the 1630s and 1670s. Isn't that a bit later than Columbus? Maracaibo was foun…
27 Nov 2007, 21:06
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When I first read those lines, I went and looked up _pelagic_ and found a definition that I thought meant in the very deep, open sea, very far from land. So a "pelagic argosy"…
27 Nov 2007, 04:17
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Sounds like it! That's funny, I thought this at first, but my brain scrambled the word to "epigram" which is not the same thing, so I looked that up and was like, darn, must be…
17 Nov 2007, 18:29
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Okay, so if you are given the blood of someone from two steps higher than you in the hierarchy, you can move up a level! So if part of Dsiri's personal motivation in the story was…
05 Oct 2007, 12:51
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I find it interesting how Latro seemed quite a bit less piteous in Sidon due to the fact that he was monogamous (well, polygamous, but in the actually matrimonial sense and not…
13 Jul 2007, 03:58
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I just really liked how the Odin type was just suddenly THERE with a single sentence at the end, and he was like, "You have done." That was some high-quality stuff right there.…
12 Jun 2007, 14:24
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Wolfe often has his characters grope around in complete darkness. A significant portion of one of the books in Long Sun is spent by a motley assortment of characters wandering a…
06 Jun 2007, 11:55
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Me too; I always find Wolfe's stories immensely satisfying and fun to read. I can't put them down. GRRM bores me to tears and I haven't been able to finish a single novel of h…
02 Jun 2007, 23:30
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You guys don't get out on the internets of the 21st century much, I think.…
13 Apr 2007, 13:50
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I particularly liked the scene when Dina Meyer's character gets it. It is not often you get a scene like that in a movie that is so perfectly, masterfully overdone.…
13 Apr 2007, 02:28
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This is interesting to me since I just read the wikipedia article on "Aliens," which states that James Cameron made everybody who was going to play a Colonial Marine read _Sta…
12 Apr 2007, 22:32
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There is a petition on the internets somewhere to have a US aircraft carrier named after him, I think.…
12 Apr 2007, 22:29
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I had an enjoyable time casting Free Live Free with smaller-time actors as I was reading it, and I think it is definately a cult classic of a movie yet to be made.…
11 Apr 2007, 16:20
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Not if you are reading the books while you are fishing.…
10 Apr 2007, 19:14
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I think you should consider Latro and Able for an answer to this question. Severian's promiscuity has a lot to do with his brand of anti-hero. He's a guy who is generally nast…
07 Apr 2007, 12:54
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I think when I read that, I just imagined Auk kicking a whore. I think he did mean the he kicked Jahlee _in the same fashion_ as Auk would have, but there may be a reference to…
30 Mar 2007, 03:06
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This is obviously the influence of modern gangsta rap on Wolfe's writing. "Bitches ain't s*** but hos and tricks," Snoop Doggy Dog. Hmm. Interesting coincidence with the names,…
27 Feb 2007, 23:21
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I know there is at least one passage that makes explicit Latro's disgust for Pasicrates' love for Polos. I guess it just wasn't the kind of thing a Roman Centurion - turned - …
03 Feb 2007, 23:57
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Seems to me that you can make something of a voided cross out of four gammas, if you don't mind the arms of the cross being open at the ends. Now unfold each gamma, one northwar…
22 Jan 2007, 02:26
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In case you didn't read Soldier of Sidon and are reading this, well, hey, what's taking you so long? It was good. Superbly done, in fact. But please delete this mail or put it …
14 Jan 2007, 23:27
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Does anybody have any leads on this? I can't find mention of it in Herodotus (doesn't mean it isn't in there, though) and I'd really like to find a source to corroborate this. …
01 Dec 2006, 02:28
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My vote is for Free Live Free as the best Gene Wolfe story to be made into a hugely critically successful film that is a flop at the box office but becomes an incredible cult h…
16 Oct 2006, 22:05
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I also read this last month because it was mentioned on this list. I really thought it was excellent. What I don't understand, though, is why this book is considered part of t…
01 Oct 2006, 13:23
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Move to France. :) France has a language academy that officially decides what is and is not French. If a foreign word becomes overly popular, they come up with a Frencher word …
01 Sep 2006, 19:20
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Okay I'm rapidly running out of easily-obtainable Wolfe books to read. I've recently started on _Castle of Days,_ and I am ready to proclaim the stories in _Gene Wolfe's Book o…
31 Jul 2006, 02:21
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I just wanted to chime in that when I first encountered these symbols, I looked up _teratoid_ in a dictionary, and since the definition I found was simple "abnormally formed" I…
27 Jul 2006, 18:23
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That's pretty funny. I just read Peace and two of the things I am really stuck on about it are the fallen tree at the beginning of the book, and the part where Alden and Margar…
20 Jul 2006, 19:09
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Wikipedia has for the most part survived such conflicts. I think the way it does this is by sticking to policies that require authors to keep their viewpoints neutral, and forg…
07 Jul 2006, 14:45
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I rather thought _A Deeper Sea_ and _Nimbus_ were quite excellent. The former was a fun little story on the surface, but carried an allegory to the fall of the ancient world th…
15 Jun 2006, 18:12
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There has been a big resurgence of popularity of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis among anthropology types lately.…
15 Jun 2006, 13:11
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I would like to interject into this thread the fact that I loathe the writing style of George R. R. Martin, and I find his "Game of Thrones" series to be nothing more than fanf…
11 Jun 2006, 18:46
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