Suggestions for Podcast Episode on "Peace"

Greetings: I'm involved in a podcast related to the genre site SF Signal. The podcast is called The Three Hoarsmen (long story). In our most recent episode, we took a look at Samuel R. Delany's "Nova". In our December or January (sometimes these things slip!) episode, we're planning on covering Gene Wolfe's "Peace". One thing that we always include in our podcast notes are links to websites that the listener can go to. I've already thought of the Neil Gaiman essay (found at F&SF's site) "How to Read Gene Wolfe". Does anybody have any other suggestions of sites I should include? And, anybody able to point to any essay (online or off) that I can point my co-hosts to in order to help us prepare for Gene Wolfe in general and this book specifically? Thanks much!

I am in 1974 on Wolfe's fiction ... If you want I can write a fairly comprehensive essay by the end of November on 1975's Peace along with a general "metonymic reading" strategy for Wolfe's work. I will have to skip over Forlesen and come back to it, as the novellas take too long to thoroughly explore. Lots of excellent work has been done on Peace because Wolfe gave away the key details in an interview without obfuscation, so there is less room for disagreement. I believe it is collected in Wright's Shadows of the New Sun (not the tribute anthology) Sent from my iPhone

Thanks, Marc--I've got both "Shadows" and also "Attending Daedalus", so I'll check them both for the interview. If you can do anything on Peace, that would be fantastic--but please don't go nuts on our account it you are pressed for time. I don't expect we'll record until mid-December and if you can't get to it, I can always add links as a comment on the post that accompanies the podcast episode if need be. Many thanks!

I don't know of any sites, but I've discovered that reading anything by Wolfe usually requires at least three iterations: 1. Read it for enjoyment. Don't try to pick out all the hints and secret messages Wolfe is embedding in the story. Read it at a natural pace and be amazed at Wolfe's lustrous and often indecipherable prose. By the end, you'll have enjoyed a book but won't be able say exactly why. 2. Read it again, this time pay close attention to every word, especially when there is a speaker or setting change, when there seems to be a typo or wrong name used in a sentence (it's not wrong). Try piece together mental notes about what is going on under the surface of the book. Maybe even scribble down a few notes. By the end you'll begin to realize the depths of Wolfe's genius. 3. Read it one more time, and this time have several colors of highlighters, a white board, and copious paper for notes. As you go through the story, map out every single event, every single character, draw the lines between them, speculate on relationships between them that aren't in the text, and generally analyze the heck out of every word. You'll end up with a large pile of somewhat-less-inscrutable information about the book, but still tons of questions left unanswered - and probably a general sense of Wolfe chucklng that you still missed the whole point of the book. How many more iterations beyond that, I do not know. I'm only on iteration 2 ....

I'm halfway through Peace myself. I'd love to read your essay (after I finish of course). :-)

Greetings: A blog post reviewing Peace: http://kateofmind.blogspot.com/2013/11/gene-wolfes-peace.html (The podcast episode may get bumped forward as one of the panelists is a tad busy--so we're probably swapping short stories by C.L. Moore into that slot and moving Gene Wolfe forward.)