# Maybe i'm reading too much into it... *The Urth list — 4 messages, 3 voices, 04 Jan 2010* > 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. --- ### Greg Bates *04 Jan 2010, 19:08* I'm probably reading too much into this, but I just started playing Killzone 2 today (got a Playstation 3 for Christmas), and I couldn't help but notice that your main character's name is "Sev" and the spaceship he arrived in is called the "New Sun." Anybody else caught any strange maybe-Gene Wolfe references in pop culture? --- ### Lane Haygood *04 Jan 2010, 19:17 · in reply to Greg Bates* That seems fairly blatant to me. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 4, 2010, at 1:08 PM, Greg Bates > wrote: > I'm probably reading too much into this, but I just started playing > Killzone 2 today (got a Playstation 3 for Christmas), and I couldn't > help but notice that your main character's name is "Sev" and the > spaceship he arrived in is called the "New Sun." Anybody else caught > any strange maybe-Gene Wolfe references in pop culture? > _______________________________________________ --- ### Matthew Keeley *04 Jan 2010, 20:21 · in reply to Greg Bates* I don't think you're reading too much into this at all. I played the game myself and noticed it. Someone on the Killzone 2 team has good taste in literature — the second level is called Blood Meridian. Also, the main villain's rank is "autarch". Terminus Est appears as a sword in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Doubtless there are other Wolfe references in games too. I don't know if your PS3 is online at the moment, but if you want to add a fellow Wolfe fan as a PSN friend, my screentag is keeleymk. Mostly playing Uncharted 2 at the moment — highly, highly recommended. -Matt > On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Greg Bates wrote: > I'm probably reading too much into this, but I just started playing Killzone > 2 today (got a Playstation 3 for Christmas), and I couldn't help but notice > that your main character's name is "Sev" and the spaceship he arrived in is > called the "New Sun." Anybody else caught any strange maybe-Gene Wolfe > references in pop culture? > _______________________________________________ --- ### Greg Bates *05 Jan 2010, 04:27 · in reply to Matthew Keeley* Sent. Never found Terminus Est in SotN - maybe it's time for a 2nd run. I'll keep my eyes peeled for any two-headed bosses in Killzone, too. > On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Matthew Keeley > wrote: > I don't think you're reading too much into this at all. I played the > game myself and noticed it. Someone on the Killzone 2 team has good > taste in literature — the second level is called Blood Meridian. > > Also, the main villain's rank is "autarch". > > Terminus Est appears as a sword in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. > Doubtless there are other Wolfe references in games too. > > I don't know if your PS3 is online at the moment, but if you want to > add a fellow Wolfe fan as a PSN friend, my screentag is keeleymk. > Mostly playing Uncharted 2 at the moment — highly, highly recommended. > > -Matt > > On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Greg Bates > wrote: >> I'm probably reading too much into this, but I just started playing >> Killzone >> 2 today (got a Playstation 3 for Christmas), and I couldn't help but >> notice >> that your main character's name is "Sev" and the spaceship he arrived in >> is >> called the "New Sun." Anybody else caught any strange maybe-Gene Wolfe >> references in pop culture? >> _______________________________________________ ---