(urth) The Case for Mundanity

[Pedro Pereira]

This is something I always though too. I think Wolfe does try to make sense from a scientific point of view, but he's not God and he does produce mistakes. But its certain that many things in the Solar Cycle are done with a lot of artistic liberty. 
 
Pedro
> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:10:54 -0600> From: jwilson at io.com> To: urth at lists.urth.net> Subject: Re: (urth) The Case for Mundanity> > Dave Lebling wrote:> > I'm also on the mundane end of the spectrum as far as many of the minor > > difficulties with chronology and sequence in the whole NS/LS/SS cycle, > > which is that a series of books written over nearly twenty years, each > > sub-series of which was unforeseen when the previous one was written, > > are going to contain some problematic dissonances because, for all the > > evidence to the contrary, Gene Wolfe is in fact human.> > > He's not Hal Clement, so > > he didn't sit down and calculate out all the geology and history, he > > just wrote the story, and years later he wrote more stories that twisted > > the chronology still more, and so on.> > Absolutely. The books should not be taken as hard SF, and attempting to > do so produces all sorts of paradoxes and contradictions. It came to me > today that Ash is not the harbinger of the end of Urth, instead it is in > fact the Green Man; rather than going to sleep under the ice, Urth would > broil under a new sun 100 times brighter than the old, because that's > how much light it would take to provide enough calories to sustain a > person in a person's worth of surface area.> > > -- > Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com> < http://www.io.com/~jwilson >> _______________________________________________> Urth Mailing List> To post, write urth at urth.net> Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net
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