(urth) second dream team

[Pedro Pereira]

Regarding point 3) we have to take into account that Wolfe's stories are not strictly hard sci-fi plausible in many points. You are correct that doubling-genes doesn't mean doubling limbs, not to mention that we are talking about completely diferent biochemistries and biologies and I pretty much doubt it would be so easy to cross two or more alien species so "simply". The same can be said of the blood-drinking inhumi, which assumes that alien blood can be drank with no problems, when veins and blood as we know it is only common to the animal kingdom on Earth (which makes up such a minor percentage of the total number of species). So some liberties have to be taken into account. I would consider Wolfe's books more like Science-Fantasy à la Flash Gordon than anything else, albeit quite more deep than those and at a completely diferent level.
 
 
Pedro
 
 
> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:07:15 -0600> To: urth at lists.urth.net> From: davetallman at msn.com> Subject: Re: (urth) second dream team> > Marc,> > Your article is fascinating and I agree with nearly all of it except for > the "Urth is Green" which seems to me a stretch too far. (I know that > Gene Wolfe once said this, but I believe it was an engineering joke > about ground wires).> > Those who don't accept this part of the theory need an alternate > explanation for the extreme compatibility of Neighbors/inhumi/Blue life > with humans. They are blood-eating and soul-copying compatible (inhumi), > "change-blood" compatible (shearbears), and "hybrid" compatible (Horn as > a Neighbor-man, whatever that process entails).> > Blue or Green being Urth is only one possible explanation. Here are some > others:> > 1) Settlement long ago by human colonists using FTL travel. Typhon might > or might not have known of this, perhaps intending an invasion rather > than a fresh colony.> 2) Time-travel, such that the Neighbors derive from the present Whorl > colonists.> 3) Parallel evolution. The doubled-limbed character of the life forms > does suggest they are different. Hybridization that doubles genes > wouldn't automatically double limbs.> > > This is probably my article, which M. Wynn was kind enough to host all these years.> >> > http://www.urth.org/whorlmap/chras-writers/marc-aramini1.htm> >> > also, cornsilk is a common phrase which makes the italian near cognate interesting.> > > _______________________________________________> Urth Mailing List> To post, write urth at urth.net> Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net
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