(urth) Wolfe's Long Sun mentioned on Fox TV program this week

[Antonin Scriabin]

Yeah, someone working on that show is a die-hard fan :-)

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Daniel Petersen <
danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry if this had already been flagged up on the board.  If it did, I
> missed it somehow and I just got notified of it in Wolfe google alerts
> today.  Anyway, THANK YOU very much Matthew Keeley for hunting up that clip
> (and Frank for asking friends)!  Turns out it's *Lake* of the Long Sun
> that's mentioned, not *Litany* (as the Hoof & Hide blog had said).  I got
> so fanboy excited when I saw this, I immediately transcribed it:
>
> *Bookseller:*  Can I help you?
>
> *Man:*  I hope so.  The lady here is looking for a book called *Lake of
> the Long Sun* by Gene Wolfe.  Do you know him?
>
> *Bookseller:*  Are you kidding me?  I worship him!  And a girl as
> beautiful as you who likes Sci Fi is a girl after my own heart.  I’m Ed by
> the way.
>
> *Woman:*  Olivia.  Sorry, taken.
>
> *Bookseller:*  All the best ones are.  Story of my life.  Ok, I’ve got
> the entire Solar Cycle, first edition.  You want signed or unsigned?
>
> And from there they ask him if he knows about a cuneiform symbol that they
> show him on a piece of paper and the clip ends.
>
> So my guess is that this was a simple nod from the series writers to the
> s.f. community - maybe a little test of how erudite the bookseller's (and
> their audience's) knowledge is of one of the truly great works of modern
> s.f. (the Solar Cycle) - and that the reference doesn't really have
> anything to do with the plot.  Still, NICE TOUCH!  And how cool is it that
> out of all the authors of s.f. they chose Wolfe, and that they chose a
> volume from *Long* Sun rather than the more obvious *New* Sun, and that
> he refers to the ENTIRE series, the Solar Cycle?  And that the dude says he
> worships him, ha!  Amazing.
>
> That made my week.
>
> -DOJP
>
> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 3:34 PM, DAVID STOCKHOFF <dstockhoff at verizon.net>wrote:
>
>> I think this was already described a few weeks back in this list, and a
>> toob link provided.
>>
>>   ------------------------------
>> *From:* Daniel Petersen <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com>
>> *To:* The Urth Mailing List <urth at lists.urth.net>
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 2, 2012 8:13 AM
>> *Subject:* (urth) Wolfe's Long Sun mentioned on Fox TV program this week
>>
>>
>> http://www.hoofandhide.net/gene-wolfe-mentioned-on-episode-of-fringe#comment
>>
>> Folks, I don't have a TV and I live in Britain, so I don't think I have
>> any way of seeing this.  Can somebody kindly give a fairly detailed account
>> of how Wolfe's *Litany of the Long Sun *was mentioned on this episode,
>> in what context, for what reason, etc.?
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> DOJP
>>
>>
>>
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