(urth) Wolfe in Fringe

[Matthew Keeley]

I tracked down a video of the bookstore scene here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/30/fringe-nothing-as-it-seems-exclusive_n_1390113.html

It seems someone on the Fringe staff has some good taste in sf; an earlier
season has a scene in the same bookstore involving a first edition of
Jonathan Carroll's The Land of Laughs.

-Matt

On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Jordon Flato <jordonflatourth at gmail.com>wrote:

> I don't know if anyone else here watches the television show Fringe (which
> as far as sci-fi tv goes is pretty good), but last episode they gave a
> great name check to Wolfe.
>
> The two leads, Olivia and Peter walk into a bookshop to get info from the
> owner, and to break the ice, Peter says "I'm looking to pick up Lake of the
> Long Sun by Gene Wolfe for my friend here.  Are you familiar with Wolfe?"
> Book store clerk:  "Know hiim?  I worship him.  Of course I have it.  I
> have the whole Solar Cycle in first addition.  Signed or unsigned?"  And
> then the scene continues on from there.  Interesting to note that the
> information they were tracking down in another work was about guided
> evolution (?!?!?)
>
> That is the most direct name check I've ever seen of Wolfe in popular
> culture.  It gave me a little nerd woody.
>
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