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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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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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I kept waiting for something through the two books and, in retrospect, I find it interesting that it never arrived. There were no scenes involving groping around in the darkness…
08 Nov 2005, 05:01
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Hello, brand new rabid Wolfe fan here (just discovered him last year, I've read like 17 of his books since). I've been browsing the archives here for a few months and I'd like…
02 Nov 2005, 05:05
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