(urth) Standard Wolfean riddle

António Pedro Marques entonio at gmail.com
Thu Aug 12 11:03:46 PDT 2010


DAVID STOCKHOFF wrote (12-08-2010 18:41):

> (...) one can conclude that the race who made the Hieros were human
> beings like ourselves with our physiology and history---but whether they
> are in "our" future is unknowable. Whether they were in our iteration or
> a 99.9999999% identical one, past or future, is unknowable.

I think it's only that:
- Urth is similar but not quite like Earth:
   + the name
   + the apparent history
   + the geography
   (some of those may be explained by being far in the future, but to me it 
rings more of a parallel though very similar universe)
- Wolfe presents Urth as a possible, bleak future for Earth. I don't want 
Earth's future to be Urth; I think the presentation is a warning - see what 
may happen - and that warning is given in the form of what happened to some 
who started off pretty much like us.




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