(urth) Short Story 19: King Under the Mountain

[Marc Aramini]

--- On Sun, 4/15/12, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote:

> From: David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: (urth) Short Story 19: King Under the Mountain
> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
> Date: Sunday, April 15, 2012, 7:03 PM
> On 4/15/2012 9:11 PM, Allan Anderson
> wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com
> <mailto:marcaramini at yahoo.com>>
> wrote:
> > 
> >     King Under the Mountai
> > 
> > 
> > For some reason, I'm reminded both the of the computer
> in "The Eyeflash Miracles" and the dwarf chessplayer
> in...argh, can't remember the title, and I loaned my friend
> the anthology. There's something to chew on there about the
> dangers of central control and the awkward interface between
> man and machine.
> 
> Or is it about the awkward interface between man and the
> universe?
> 
> I'm reminded of the dwarf in the underground city in
> Tracking Song.

The Marvelous Brass Chessplaying Automaton?

Yes, little dwarven derelicts/masterminds are lurking in a fair amount of Wolfe.  Sometimes they are technicians like the Fliers/ Sciathan.  I am almost up to re-reading Tracking Song - I dont remember it very well at present.