(urth) Severian's skin color
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
danldo at gmail.com
Thu Jun 16 20:13:08 PDT 2005
This is a clear case of artists assuming that the generic SFF hero
is white no matter what the writer says.
Somewhere in there Wolfe (or Severian) makes a comment to
the effect that each of the continents has a characteristic
physical "type," and that peoples who live on a continent long
enough will tend towards that "type." (Something like a hundred
generations?) Since the Commonwealth (a) is on - roughly -
the South American continent, and (b) has been there a long
time, we can reasonably conclude that its citizens resemble
contemporary native South Americans.
--Dan'l
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