tBotNS 2 - Summary, The Claw of the Conciliator
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The Claw of the Conciliator Summary
At long last we put paid to the second volume.
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tBotNS 2:31 The Cleansing PART 2 - Gene Wolfe‘s The Claw of the Conciliator, The Book of the New Sun
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The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 31 "The Cleansing" ...
2023-08-02 01:59:58 +0000 UTC View PosttBotNS 2:31 The Cleansing - Gene Wolfe‘s The Claw of the Conciliator, The Book of the New Sun
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2023-06-28 19:55:13 +0000 UTC View PosttBotNS 2:30 The Badger Again - Gene Wolfe‘s The Claw of the Conciliator, The Book of the New Sun
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The Claw of the Conciliator
tBotNS 2:29 The Herdsman - Gene Wolfe‘s The Claw of the Conciliator, The Book of the New Sun
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SXSW Austin TX Reader Interviews
I don’t know yet whether the SXSW WolfeCon will happen but if you are in town and you DM me, I’ll arrange for us to do a Reader Interview here.
2023-03-13 17:15:06 +0000 UTC View PostSXSW Wolfe Con?
From Sunday 3/12-Saturday 3/17 I'll be at the Club Wyndham in Downtown Austin (8th + Nueces) for SXSW.
I know we've got listeners and patrons in Austin. Hit me up if you wanna get some ...
2023-03-12 01:49:13 +0000 UTC View PosttBotNS 2:28 The Odalisque of Abaia - Gene Wolfe‘s The Claw of the Conciliator, The Book of the New Sun
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The Claw of the Conciliator
'What’s going on in the Short Sun' by James Wynn
Nothing in this is canon. But, I assert, the following explanation binds the whole of the plot of Long Sun and Short Sun together better than any other theory I’ve examined.
1 Summa...
2023-01-23 02:38:39 +0000 UTC View PostChapters with Patron-Only Content
We started appending patron only content to the end of our regular chapter episodes. A way to ensure we always provide a "thank you" to people who support us materially.
tBotNS 2:27 Toward Thrax - Gene Wolfe‘s The Claw of the Conciliator, The Book of the New Sun
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2022-12-15 17:44:17 +0000 UTC View PosttBotNS 2:26 The Parting - Gene Wolfe‘s The Claw of the Conciliator, The Book of the New Sun
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Patron bonus content starts at: 1:39:15: Wolfe's uncollected Robert E. Howard homage: "Six From Atlantis"
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2022-11-23 04:20:24 +0000 UTC View PostGoing To the Beach, and uncollected story by Gene Wolfe
Craig had an interesting idea that at Shadow of the Con we could also do a reading/discussion of an uncollected Wolfe story (I collect uncollected Wolfe stories).
So I’ll post one and we’...
2022-08-31 00:34:26 +0000 UTC View Post"Agia" Flash Fiction Contest
Master Patrons can vote on entries to the Flash Fiction contest.
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Gene Wolfe Podcasts and mini-podcasts and YouTube channels
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2022-07-02 16:59:26 +0000 UTC View PostShadow of the Con Flash Fiction Contest
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Deadline: August 15, 2022
400 words or...
2022-06-08 20:14:01 +0000 UTC View PostWorldcon Official Panel: The Gene Wolfe Renaissance
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2022-06-08 19:50:39 +0000 UTC View PostShadow of the Con
The Rereading Wolfe Podcast is organizing a Gene Wolfe con within the 2022 Worldcon 80 in Chicago (Chicon 8, get your membership here) .&...
2022-06-08 19:45:43 +0000 UTC View PostBorges 6: Ibn Hakkan Al-Bokhari, Murdered in his Labyrinth
89 minutes
Two Englishmen tell and retell the story of a murder in a strange labyrinth built by an exotic foreigner under debatable circumstances.
Full text of the story 2022-04-01 05:32:31 +0000 UTC View Post
New Slack Space for Master Patrons
If you're a patron at the Master level then you've (hopefully) received an invite by email. If you haven't let me know. If you have and didn't understand what was going on, this is the answer. ...
2022-03-20 19:53:58 +0000 UTC View PostBorges 5: Circular Ruins
60 minutes
A man spends years of effort to craft another man from his dreams. We think this sounds vaguely Wolfe-familiar in a brown-book-ish sorta way...
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James Wynn's False Thecla Theory
"My bed seemed to toss beneath me. I gripped the sides and sat up and it was still, but as soon as my head touched the pillow once more the swaying began again. I felt I was wide awake - t... 2021-12-11 19:14:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Borges 2b - A New Refutation of Time (part 2)
Craig and James try something new: taking on an essay rather than a story. It's a bit dense, but it explains a lot about the world of Tlon. Idealism in that story got rid of actual physical space -...
2021-11-30 15:40:48 +0000 UTC View PostBorges 4 - The Garden of Forking Paths
A spy attempts to evade capture long enough to complete one last mission and discovers the Quantum Many Worlds Theory.
Full text of the story 2021-10-12 03:39:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Borges 3 - Funes the Memorious
Craig and James interrupt the Borges essay on Time to do another story, one that very likely influenced Severian. "Funes, the Memorious" is about a young man with a perfect memory, a frighteningly ...
2021-07-22 20:26:39 +0000 UTC View PostJorge Luis Borges Collection
To listen to these episodes, become a patron at at least the Journeyman Level.
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The Land Across Expedition - Table of Contents
James makes his excursion in The Land Across with zero knowledge of what is coming.
He'll discuss any chapters he's read before but he will not seek or entertain any information or theories r...
2021-06-25 17:48:47 +0000 UTC View PostThe Land Across Expedition - Chapter 1
The Protagonist enters Transterra. He's arrested at "the border." He's taken to Puraustays where he is imprisoned in the house of Kleon and Martya.
2021-06-25 17:44:48 +0000 UTC View PostBorges 2a - A New Refutation of Time
Craig and James try something new: taking on an essay rather than a story. It's a bit dense, but it explains a lot about the world of Tlon. Idealism in that story got rid of actual physical space -...
2021-06-02 00:22:00 +0000 UTC View Post