Gene Wolfe to Appear on Coode Street Podcast

Fred Kiesche · 18 Dec 2012, 16:43 · from 2012-December.txt.gz

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From: godelescherbach at gmail.com (Fred Kiesche)
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 11:43:47 -0500
Subject: (urth) Gene Wolfe to Appear on Coode Street Podcast
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Anything is worth forwarding; Jonathan Strahan may ask, or it may spark him
to come up with some of his own.

So, everyone: Please keep sending!

Generally the podcast goes up on Sunday of the weekend. Here's the site:

http://www.jonathanstrahan.com.au/wp/the-coode-street-podcast/

...and I'll also post a message when I see it go up (assuming I'm home on
Sunday and not out volunteering for Hurricane Sandy relief).

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Jerry Friedman
<jerry_friedman at yahoo.com>wrote:

>  Is there any reason to think Wolfe would answer specific questions about
> the stories, such as the ones Ryan Dunn suggested?  I think he's said he
> won't do that any more.  Even if he won't, we might have fun discussing
> what questions we most want the answers to and seeing whether there's any
> agreement.
>
> Anyway, here are questions on his beliefs (mostly).  The introductory
> parts about his stories can be shortened or removed.
>
> In "The Fifth Head of Cerberus", the narrator is a clone--possibly a clone
> of you, some generations later--and many readers have understood his
> appalling character as suggesting that this unnatural method of
> reproduction would produce people cut off from the good side of humanity,
> maybe even leading to the Beast of Revelation.  In Pirate Freedom, the
> narrator is the product of genetic engineering, possibly a clone, and
> though he has a good side, he does some terrible things and calls himself a
> "half-human monster".  Now perhaps human cloning is possible or will soon
> be.  What do you think of it?  What would you tell somebody who was
> thinking of trying to get a clone made of himself or herself or of a dead
> family member?
>
> In The Book of the New Sun, the narrator is a torturer who eventually
> decides to end torture in his Commonwealth.  In Pirate Freedom, the
> narrator comments that the torture that has been in the news recently
> (which may be the same in his world as in ours) isn't even true torture and
> too much of a fuss has been made over it.  What is your opinion on the
> harsher interrogation techniques that American soldiers, and intelligence
> operatives have used in this century on prisoners at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo
> Bay, etc.?  Are they torture?  Are or were they morally justified?  Would
> you like to see them outlawed?
>
> In an interview with James Jordan, you said, "I think that the gods of
> paganism were real."  Do you still believe that?  What can you tell us
> about these beings?  Do you believe they still exist and still interact
> with us?  Do they appear in your fiction outside the Soldier series?
>
> Jerry Friedman
>
>
>   *From:* Fred Kiesche <godelescherbach at gmail.com>
>
> *To:* The Urth Mailing List <urth at lists.urth.net>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 18, 2012 6:58 AM
> *Subject:* (urth) Gene Wolfe to Appear on Coode Street Podcast
>
> Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe will be having special guest Gene Wolfe
> on The Coode Street Podcast (to be recording this weekend). They have put
> out a call for questions. Post them here or e-mail me (
> GodelEscherBach at gmail.com) and I'll pass 'em on.
>
> --
> F.P. Kiesche III  "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book.
> Always, scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?" (The Duke of Gloucester, on
> being presented with Volume 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.)
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-- 
F.P. Kiesche III  "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. Always,
scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?" (The Duke of Gloucester, on being
presented with Volume 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.)
Blogging at The Lensman's Children (
http://theeternalgoldenbraid.blogspot.com/).
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