Wolfe's Long Sun mentioned on Fox TV program this week

Daniel Petersen · 02 May 2012, 17:12 · from 2012-May.txt.gz

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From: danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com (Daniel Petersen)
Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 18:12:18 +0100
Subject: (urth) Wolfe's Long Sun mentioned on Fox TV program this week
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Sorry if this had already been flagged up on the board.  If it did, I
missed it somehow and I just got notified of it in Wolfe google alerts
today.  Anyway, THANK YOU very much Matthew Keeley for hunting up that clip
(and Frank for asking friends)!  Turns out it's *Lake* of the Long Sun
that's mentioned, not *Litany* (as the Hoof & Hide blog had said).  I got
so fanboy excited when I saw this, I immediately transcribed it:

*Bookseller:*  Can I help you?

*Man:*  I hope so.  The lady here is looking for a book called *Lake of the
Long Sun* by Gene Wolfe.  Do you know him?

*Bookseller:*  Are you kidding me?  I worship him!  And a girl as beautiful
as you who likes Sci Fi is a girl after my own heart.  I?m Ed by the way.

*Woman:*  Olivia.  Sorry, taken.

*Bookseller:*  All the best ones are.  Story of my life.  Ok, I?ve got the
entire Solar Cycle, first edition.  You want signed or unsigned?

And from there they ask him if he knows about a cuneiform symbol that they
show him on a piece of paper and the clip ends.

So my guess is that this was a simple nod from the series writers to the
s.f. community - maybe a little test of how erudite the bookseller's (and
their audience's) knowledge is of one of the truly great works of modern
s.f. (the Solar Cycle) - and that the reference doesn't really have
anything to do with the plot.  Still, NICE TOUCH!  And how cool is it that
out of all the authors of s.f. they chose Wolfe, and that they chose a
volume from *Long* Sun rather than the more obvious *New* Sun, and that he
refers to the ENTIRE series, the Solar Cycle?  And that the dude says he
worships him, ha!  Amazing.

That made my week.

-DOJP

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 3:34 PM, DAVID STOCKHOFF <dstockhoff at verizon.net>wrote:

> I think this was already described a few weeks back in this list, and a
> toob link provided.
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> *From:* Daniel Petersen <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com>
> *To:* The Urth Mailing List <urth at lists.urth.net>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 2, 2012 8:13 AM
> *Subject:* (urth) Wolfe's Long Sun mentioned on Fox TV program this week
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>
> http://www.hoofandhide.net/gene-wolfe-mentioned-on-episode-of-fringe#comment
>
> Folks, I don't have a TV and I live in Britain, so I don't think I have
> any way of seeing this.  Can somebody kindly give a fairly detailed account
> of how Wolfe's *Litany of the Long Sun *was mentioned on this episode, in
> what context, for what reason, etc.?
>
> Cheers!
>
> DOJP
>
>
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