(urth) Gene Wolfe to Appear on Coode Street Podcast

Thu Dec 20 07:29:41 PST 2012

I have a question about Father Inire.  Do we meet Father Inire (aside from
Thecla's story about him) in the New Sun series, perhaps using a different
name?  Is he human?  Congrats on the Grandmaster award.  You deserve it the
most.

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> wrote:

> How about a general question for him?
>
> - Do you feel that if America should fall from its global relevance as an
> affluent and influential nation that English would topple from its position
> as the second most spoken language in the world (assuming Australia does
> not rise to fill that power vacuum)?
> Do you think this could relegate figures like Shakespeare and modern
> authors working in English to less global importance and neglect in the
> global literary community, or do you think the digital age and instant
> communication have prevented linguistic drift by and large?
>
>
>
>
>
> --- On *Tue, 12/18/12, Fred Kiesche <godelescherbach at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Fred Kiesche <godelescherbach at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: (urth) Gene Wolfe to Appear on Coode Street Podcast
> To: "Jerry Friedman" <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com>, "The Urth Mailing List" <
> urth at lists.urth.net>
> Date: Tuesday, December 18, 2012, 8:43 AM
>
>
>  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<http://us.mc1607.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=jerry_friedman@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<http://us.mc1607.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=godelescherbach@gmail.com>>
>
>
> *To:* The Urth Mailing List <urth at lists.urth.net<http://us.mc1607.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=urth@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<http://us.mc1607.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=GodelEscherBach@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.)
> Blogging at The Lensman's Children (
> http://theeternalgoldenbraid.blogspot.com/).
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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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