{ "export": { "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/27", "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it. Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.", "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'" }, "archive": "urth", "thread": { "id": 27, "subject": "recent Wolfe stuff", "messages": 2, "voices": 2, "first": "1997-05-08T10:12:05+00:00", "last": "1997-05-08T16:38:00+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Joshua A. Solomon", "address": "j.solomon at ucl.ac.uk" }, "date": "1997-05-08T10:12:05+00:00", "subject": "(urth) recent Wolfe stuff", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Recently visited my local sf shop, found a couple of Wolfe things.\n\"Counting Cats in Zanzibar\" and \"Try and Kill It\" are two short stories\npublished in Asimov's last year. Another, published in F & SF, I haven't\nsucceeded in tracking down yet. Both of these stories allude to \"God's\nfinger's.\" Anybody want to take a stab at what these are supposed to\nrepresent? Does anybody know of any other stories involving \nsupernatural digits? Does anybody know of any more recently published\nWolfe things? I think that URTH is an appropriate place to post\nWolfe-related news items. For example, the May issue of Interzone\ncontains an (extremely superficial) interview with the man. \n\nbee\n\nFWIW my initial guess re. God's fingers is that they create the\nartifice responsible for turning ordinary fiction into speculative\nfiction.\n\nPPS My previous post (several weeks ago, to WHORL) about\nA Solar Labyrinth seems to have vanished without a trace, but\nit's noteworthy that, according to said interview, GW claims that\nit is one of his favorites. (The others were, Westwind, The Eyeflash\nMiracles & THERE ARE DOORS.) I had said that I thought this story\nwas the archetypical GW story. \nIMO Wolfe writes specifically for the audience who will have the\nperception and imagination to discover and become fascinated, if not\nentrapped, in the literary mazes (puzzles, really) he builds." }, { "kind": "sig", "depth": 0, "text": "Joshua A. Solomon\nInstitute of Ophthalmology\nBath Street\nLondon EC1V 9EL\nVoice: (44) 171 608 6924\nFax: (44) 171 608 6846\nj.solomon at ucl.ac.uk\nhttp://vision.arc.nasa.gov/personnel/jsolomon" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "m.driussi", "address": "m.driussi at genie.com" }, "date": "1997-05-08T16:38:00+00:00", "subject": "(urth) recent Wolfe stuff", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Reply: Item #5191086 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00#\n\nbee,\n\nThe F&SF (Oct/Nov '96) story is \"The Man in the Pepper Mill,\" which\nIMHO harkens back to \"The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories.\"\nOr maybe you are thinking of the F&SF (Jan '97) story \"No Planets\nStrike,\" which features talking animals in an interstellar clown\nshow.\n\nThe anthology SPACE OPERA, edited by McCaffrery and Scarborough, has\n\"Bluesberry Jam,\" a dystopian near future (or perhaps \"dark future\"\ncaptures the sense better?) story. My favorite of the 1996 shorts.\n\n(Me, I finally got and read \"The Sailor Who Sailed After the Sun,\" in\nthe anthology GRAILS: QUESTS OF THE DAWN. While it isn't even\nremotely Urthian, seeing as how it is set in a \"City of Lost\nChildren\" sort of world, it is possible to read it as an overview of\nthe Urth Cycle. Which is disturbing in some ways; since, if you look\nat it this way, the first Severian is a nice boy and his successor,\nthe Severian of the narrative, is literally a very clever monkey.\n\"Revenge of the Tanist?\" I'm wondering. All from my soon-to-be\npatented school of over-reading, \"Uberlesen!\")\n\n=mantis=" } ] } ] }