(urth) OT: Anathem

[Lane Haygood]

Even if it were a planet called Orth, it's not like Wolfe has a  
monopoly on the names of the Norns. Or phonetic derivatives of their  
names.

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On Sep 15, 2008, at 2:53 PM, "Kerry Benton" <k.benton at gmail.com> wrote:

> That's because Dirda told you it was :
>
> "The plot of Anathem is basically this: It's the far future of an
> Earth-like planet called Orth."
>
> It's kind of a small thing, unless you're a book reviewer for a major
> news organization, in which case it's not the kind of thing you ought
> to screw up.
>
> -k
>
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Rjyan Kadwallader  
> <cexwell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ohhh, that review made me think the planet was called Orth.
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Matthew Groves
>> <matthewalangroves at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Rjyan Kadwallader <cexwell at gmail.com 
>>> >
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> is it really totally OK to write a fantasy book about a future  
>>>> version of
>>>> our planet and call it "Orth"?
>>>
>>>
>>> Well, I don't know, maybe not, but it's a moo point (as Joey  
>>> Tribiani
>>> would say).  Stephenson's Anathem is a postcyberpunk sf novel  
>>> about another
>>> World, with a planet called Arbre, on which there is a language  
>>> called Orth.
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