(urth) Cassie's Mobile Home (AEG spoilers)

[Mr Thalassocrat]

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 10:36 PM, Dave Tallman <davetallman at msn.com> wrote:

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> On other time things: If Kololahi is a fictionalised Tonga and Kingsport is
>> in MA then the time difference in fall would be about 18 hours, or 6 hours
>> with a day shift (GMT+13 versus GMT-5). This fits with Cassie's
>> observation
>> after being dropped off by Gid at the airport (p225) - in the evening back
>> home, a little after lunch here. If she's having an early breakfast and
>> Sharon is coming up to lunch-time when they speak, that fits also: her
>> comment about getting up at 11am earlier doesn't mean much (she's playing
>> prima donna, I think, and anyway apart from late-night encounters with
>> alien
>> bat-people it's likely enough she's getting to bed early in Kololahi).
>>
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> Cassie seems to wake up late whenever she has a chance to, all through the
> book. I think she  would continue this habit when she was treated as
> pampered royalty. When Cassie asks for her breakfast after her call to
> Sharon, there is a pause as if the hotel staff is confused. Afterwards they
> say that King Kanoa and his men have been given something to eat, but they
> don't call it breakfast for them (p. 237-238). I get the sense that her
> breakfast is not at a normal early hour.


Another explanation might be that Sharon is in California. Under the
Kololahi = fictionalised Tonga assumption, that would put her 3 hours ahead
of Cassie (with a day shift). Sharon connected with the California cult
somehow?


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> The phone call went through a dedicated satellite in Clarke orbit (p. 227).
> Reis may have installed strange technology from Woldercan to allow him send
> calls through time, which would help to explain how he can keep one jump
> ahead of his enemies. The other people on the island who make cell phone
> calls are Australian tourists who would be close to the same time zone when
> they called home.
>

Perth would be 5 hours behind Kololahi, so not really much difference to the
shift versus MA (except the other way, and without the day shift).
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