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Short Sun is really really excellent - I'm just on my first tour through the works of Gene Wolfe myself, but I really like Short Sun best out of the big cycle. You really have…
26 May 2006, 13:41
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It would put Roy's general denouncement of Able and WK late last year in a new light...…
22 May 2006, 15:17
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Sweet! Looks like new stuff has been added. I expect I am going to basically wander up to Mr Wolfe and kind of stammer until someone more lugubrious steps in and starts talking …
22 May 2006, 15:15
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I appreciate the effort, but its like that bedroom closet door in the first Poltergeist movie that I saw when I was way too young - nothing is going to make me "unimagine" this…
20 May 2006, 19:23
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From the program on the website www.balticon.org it looks as though Mr. Wolfe is only scheduled for a panel on sunday morning at 11am. My guess is he doesn't do much milling ar…
20 May 2006, 12:45
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What I find most disturbing here is that this wouldn't result in impregnation, unless the giant's semen behaved similarly to the giant's blood. And I dearly wish I hadn't ever…
20 May 2006, 01:11
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But it certainly doesn't make sense that there is a society of people descended from petitioners, living out their whole lives in a waiting room at the House Absolute, living o…
21 Feb 2006, 21:20
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Thanks! It was neat to see Wolfe invoke 23, also.…
17 Feb 2006, 04:10
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Which reminds me of something I had been meaning to ask people on the list. I have heard of some BOTNS artwork, I believe it was french, particularly a depiction of the flower…
14 Feb 2006, 20:31
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Maybe Free Live Free, too.…
04 Feb 2006, 03:40
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Well, that makes some sense. Though humans only do this if there is a living covenant with their gods. Uri and Baki were Garceg's, so they had rejected humanity as their gods. …
07 Dec 2005, 04:18
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Also, what are the implications of the "up-giving" of blood? It is clear that, for a human, the blood of an Aelf has terrific healing properties. But both Baki and Uri were so …
07 Dec 2005, 02:49
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Why does it follow that they have no hope of eternal reward? For the Aelf, the eternal reward would be to gain a soul, to become human. Baki is explicit about wanting this when…
05 Dec 2005, 14:16
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I was musing over this thread yesterday while parked in traffic. It seems to me that one ulterior motive Wolfe has in his writing is to shake the readers' sensibilities up a bi…
03 Dec 2005, 21:00
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You're right! And that foreign army went on to join Able in his cause, which completes the trifecta of opponents who beat Able, only to end up joining him.…
01 Dec 2005, 22:46
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The passage about killing Pouk reminded me of Latro writing about - ack, lent my copy to my dad - "killing the man with the wooden leg." He said something like "I vow to kill h…
01 Dec 2005, 03:53
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So what do you think about Org, and their relationship? Org beat Able soundly, but then Uri, Baki, and Gylf jumped in. Rather than running away, which might have been fine, Org…
01 Dec 2005, 03:16
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I am pretty sure there was some close-to-explicit mention that he was, in fact, an Overcyn, but I can't find it now. ;P I believe he said "we Overcyns" at some point...…
27 Nov 2005, 17:21
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It isn't just a "different society," though, it is very definately a pre-medieval western european society. I am not saying that is _all_ it is by any means; Wolfe definately g…
25 Nov 2005, 01:36
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True, he essentially murdered the captain and stole his boat. Someone could probably argue that the line was still blurry there, that the captain could have gotten out of it wi…
24 Nov 2005, 16:44
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Hi! Just some thoughts... I felt like the upbraiding of the stablehands was a "Severian moment." In general, I think Wolfe's idea of a True Hero as expressed by Able is of one …
23 Nov 2005, 16:06
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