(urth) Urth is Green Redux

Jeff Wilson jwilson at io.com
Tue Jan 11 13:57:52 PST 2011


On 1/11/2011 2:59 PM, Lee Berman wrote:
> Great glass domes and lunar volume expansion are both equally easy to
> create in fiction, Wolfe can do what he wants with his worlds.


With his worlds, like Green and Blue and St Anne and St Croix and Yesod, 
absolutely. However, Urth and Lune are not his creations de novo and he 
is limited to what he can do with them and still entertain the 
reasonable person's willing suspension of disbelief. He acknowledges 
this by including the inconvenient details of times and tides and their 
absence, and explaining the latter.


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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >



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