In an earlier post you quoted: "Finegan's Wake" is also featured as the climax of the primary story line in Philip Jose Farmer's award-winning novella, "Riders of the Purple WAGE." (empahsis added.) I was merely wondering if the wikipedia people had make a mistake. Sorry to have...

To Sebastian Michael: Concerning my Philip Jose Farmer note. Farmer was a very prolific writer and science fiction and fantasy. He also loved word play (sorry about 'world' play in my prior post), puns, anagrams and palindromes. He often would take a title of a line of dialogue from another source,...

Cattleman wrote:I thought is was "Spiders of the Purple Mage" from the Thieve's World series, but then Farmer was quite prolific, and loved world play, so maybe he worte both.

That went straight over my head...

Time is the measure of change in relationship of things. In a VERY simple environment, time is not necessarily a measurement that can only go one direction, past to future. With an environment where there is nothing in the universe except, say, 5 particles, the only thing that can be said about tha...

Loving the idea of a thread on this most intriguing and vexing of books I've ever come across (currently reading it - I'm on about page 140 and I can't, predictably, as yet make head or tail of it. Then again, as you suggest, that may be exactly the point...). But at the risk of sounding pedantic, I...

126 - unsurprisingly i have a 'low colour acuity score'. and it made my head go dizzy...

I like your approach much better, Sebastian. Good luck to you. I would think Fry's endorsement is going to be very effective for the marketing of your novel. thanks geo - i'm only learning now (and slowly) that writing the book is not enough, you have to somehow let people know about it too... this...

Well, as Prof Rolf Heuer, director-general of CERN, in Switzerland, where the experiments were conducted, put it today: "As a layman I would now say I think we have it." This article on the BBC News website gives a compact explanation of what it is they were looking for, what it is they th...

That's most generous and kind of you, thanks Chris!

thanks chris!