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The Rereading Wolfe Podcast | 重读沃尔夫播客

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A chapter-by-chapter spoiler intense deep dive into Gene Wolfe's "The Book of the New Sun" stewing in unhinged speculation. You cannot read a Gene Wolfe story. You can only re-read a Gene Wolfe story. http://patreon.com/rereadingwolfe

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The Rereading Wolfe Podcast | 重读沃尔夫播客 @rereadingwolfe.bsky.social · 9h

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Trans Moleman, Street Estrogen Junkie @transmoleman.bsky.social · 1d

It's still extremely funny to me that the game that got people obsessed over Zelda continuity had a goddamn Michael Jordan reference right in its first dungeon. Most unhinged lore chasers on the planet, AND I'M A GENE WOLFE FAN

Emily Aster, Mars Witch VTuber @emilyaster.bsky.social · 1d

"2, 3, 1... twenty-three is number one!"

Charlie the Half Time Orange @clementinedanger.bsky.social · 1d

work work

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“Captain Video” From Outer Space @atepomegranates.bsky.social · 1d

Worth adding, “AI may know - but they cannot compare their experience to ours, and we cannot know whether or not to believe them”.

(Relevant passage attached from Wolfe, The Fifth Head of Cerberus)

Although I loved Mr. Million as much as I had when I was a boy, I was never able, after that conversation in which I learned the meaning of the familiar lettering on his side, quite to reestablish the old relationship. I was always conscious, as I am conscious now, that the personality I loved had perished years before I was born, and that I addressed an imitation of it, fundamentally mathematical in nature, responding as that personality might to the stimuli of human speech and action.

I could never determine whether Mr. Million is really aware in that sense which would give him the right to say, as he always has, "I think" and "I feel." When I asked him about it he could only explain that he did not know the answer himself, that having no standard of comparison, he could not be positive whether his own mental processes represented true consciousness or not; and I, of course, could not know whether this answer represented the deepest meditation of a soul somehow alive in the dancing abstractions of the simulation or whether it was merely triggered, a phonographic response, by my question.

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Cal @caljones.com · 1d

Instead I will perhaps be finishing The Wizard by Gene Wolfe & Working

Cal @caljones.com · 1d

I wish the Tigers were playing today

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 1d

Artist and Ballantine Books art director Margo Herr (1937-2005) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, 1973; R, 1980

Cover for Zelazny's To Die in Italbar. Various plumes of stylized smoke rises. A man's face seems reflected below. the moon is above.

Cover for Strete's If All Else Fails... Person holds a stopwatch with a Native American face. There are various other symbols of Native culture flying around. There's a mountain range in the background.

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The Rereading Wolfe Podcast | 重读沃尔夫播客 @rereadingwolfe.bsky.social · 1d

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Jeff Dreher @jeffdreher.bsky.social · 1d

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For those wondering the length of a Cosmic Year. New calculations estimate 33.3B.
www.sciencealert.com/physicists-p...

Physicists Predict When The Universe Will End in a Reverse Big Bang

If recent discoveries that dark energy is evolving hold any water, our Universe will collapse under its own gravity on a finite timeline, new calculations suggest.

www.sciencealert.com

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 2d

Frank Herbert (1920-1986) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, Vincent Di Fate, 1976; R, uncredited, 1970
#scifi #sciencefiction #books

Cover for Children of Dune. Two figures approach a small town in the desert of Arrakis.

Cover for Destination: Void. Two figures float next to a huge brain inside of a spaceship

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lars-o-matic @lars-o-matic.bsky.social · 10d

Introduce yourself using only one book, one film, and one band or artist that you love:

All Systems Red, by Martha Wells

Local Hero, written and directed by Bill Forsyth

Adrian Belew, in any of the zillion bands he's played in

Love others' picks Shadow of the Torturer, The Stand, etc.!

Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 10d

Introduce yourself using only one book, one film, and one band or artist that you love:

The Shadow of the Torturer, by Gene Wolfe

Portrait of a Lady on Fire, dir. Céline Sciamma

Wu Tang Clan

Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 10d

Introduce yourself using only one book, one film, and one band or artist that you love:

The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker

Blade Runner

Pink Floyd

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 3d

"Nosferatu? That's a name I haven't heard in a long time..."

👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 3d

really hoping me and @bobpastorella.com are hitting on a new terrifying vampire zeitgeist and you all buy fifty copies of our books each

one for you, and one for each of your minions of the undead

a black and white photo of a man with a yellow mask

ALT: a black and white photo of a man with a yellow mask

media.tenor.com

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The Rereading Wolfe Podcast | 重读沃尔夫播客 @rereadingwolfe.bsky.social · 3d

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 3d

Artist and author Enki Bilal sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bilal_... was born on this day, so here's some examples of his artwork:

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The Rereading Wolfe Podcast | 重读沃尔夫播客 @rereadingwolfe.bsky.social · 3d

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Numero Group boxed set Robby @robbykarol.bsky.social · 4d

Really did not know there was an audience for Gene Wolfe posting!

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The Rereading Wolfe Podcast | 重读沃尔夫播客 @rereadingwolfe.bsky.social · 3d

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 3d

"All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it."
Gene Wolfe

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The Rereading Wolfe Podcast | 重读沃尔夫播客 @rereadingwolfe.bsky.social · 4d

www.madmethodpod.com/podcast/shad...

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 4d

This week's new SFE entries are here sf-encyclopedia.com/whatsnew.php - for the Japanese tv series 'Spectreman' (1971/1972) [US English dub broadcast in 1978]; the short-lived US comic "NoMan" (1966/1967) and the Polish 'Sfinks Award'. The 2nd image is from the cover of a 1972 Spectreman single:

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Disco Stu @epiphanyengine.bsky.social · 4d

But the sheer size of these Baroque Cycle tomes are making it difficult on the morning commute. As such, also picked up Gene Wolfe’s Fifth Head of Cerberus and reading that on my train journeys. Haven’t read Wolfe for 35+ years, let’s see what all the fuss is about hey?

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Juniper @adesertdryad.bsky.social · 4d

A busy week! Finished Space Rat 02 (available on my ko-fi)
Nearly finished a big linocut commission, made t-shirts for the kids, and finished my fanart shirt for Book of the New Sun

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Numero Group boxed set Robby @robbykarol.bsky.social · 4d

Thinking about SEVEN AMERICAN NIGHTS by Gene Wolfe and how initially you think it’s a post-apocalyptic or dystopian story and then gradually figure out it’s about a U.S. that had regressed while the rest of the world advanced

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kitt @donkitt.bsky.social · 5d

i will revise some of my earlier opinion that book of the new sun isn't shitposty enough, this is the tale of the quest that ensues when you give the quiet, kind of dreamy kid in class a massive fuckoff sword and $3.25 and drop him by the side of the highway with a job waiting three states away

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 5d

My own SFF conception of LLMs as intelligence is kinda like Gene Wolfe’s megatherians from BOTNS - colossal distributed beings whose pawns speak in regurgitated phrases but which can also create a sexy mermaid

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The Rereading Wolfe Podcast | 重读沃尔夫播客 @rereadingwolfe.bsky.social · 5d