(urth) the wall and baldanders

Paul B pb.stuff at gmail.com
Tue May 18 12:06:07 PDT 2010


I'd always thought the Wall was just a scaled-up version of the Citadel
wall.  (And I thought that one was a blast shield for lifting spaceships
like the Matachin tower.)  That requires thinking that in some earlier age,
planetfall-capable spaceships were a lot bigger - but not Whorl-sized.

Paul


On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Cliff Judge <transentient at gmail.com> wrote:

> It would most likely be vastly more difficult to build the thing on earth.
> But if you have access to good contragrav technology, not impossible, right?
>
> Wasn't Typhon at odds with some hiero-people when he was building the
> Whorl?
>
> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:44 AM, John Watkins <john.watkins04 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> ...that's a really good idea.
>>
>> My question is, wouldn't constructing such a ship in-atmosphere be much
>> more difficult than doing it in space?
>>
>> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Cliff Judge <transentient at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> What is the deal with Baldanders claiming he never dreams the morning
>>> after the show at Cteiphon's Cross, when the morning after Severian sleeps
>>> next to him he describes having a dream, possibly the same dream as Sev?
>>>
>>> The Wall is a Long Sun class colony ship, isn't it? Sticking up out of
>>> the ground like the ships in the Citadel. Either incomplete or mostly
>>> buried.
>>>
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