Hi all-

  I only recently joined the list, having first waited until I'd
finished "Return To The Whorl" to avoid any spoilers. I've chimed in a
couple of times about this and that, the comic book version and
whatnot, but have been shy about posing new questions which may have
come up a million times before. I have come to the conclusion that,
like in scuba diving, there are really very few truly dumb questions,
though on a list like this they may have been discussed before
<italic>ad nauseum</italic>. Therefore I feel emboldened to ask a few
questions of my own, starting with (as a somewhat basic starting
point):

-What's the general reception in these rarified Wolfe circles of the
Borsky book, "Solar Labyrinth?" I found it an interesting read for the
first few chapters, having skipped to areas I found of most interest,
but on reading the whole thing through I'm dead set against some of
his assertations, and thinking that he's seeing too much into
everything for his own aggrandizement, i.e. "the Navigator was JFK."
What? That seems to me the most silly thing in the book, though
overall he brings up a lot of good points, but I've never seen the
Wolfe series dissected and discussed by anyone before. I know the Urth
archives go back a long ways but I'm not sifting through all of that
at once. Ultan's place on a day pass! Most of the friends I've
recommended it to had trouble getting through it, or they read it as
straight sci-fi on the surface and didn't notice any of the finer
details, mostly waiting for the next sword fight or monster, or
whatever. I've just never heard it discussed much, but I feel I have a
good foundation now in some of the book's basic mysteries, thanks in
part no doubt to the Borsky book, but what do you all think of his
work overall? I think he raises a lot of good questions but some of
his conclusions are kinda crazy to the point where it seems that every
minor character with a scrap of dialogue has a blood tie to Sev or the
Autarch, or some secret circle that was never really mentioned in the
text ("magicians"). So, let the flaming begin- comments, anyone?
Besides, the misogyny streak is kinda starting to bore me and I never
read Dr. Island, but thinking of picking up Peace and Doors...

-Scott K.