(urth) This week in Google alerts

[Marc Aramini]

--- On Wed, 11/2/11, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com> wrote:


From: Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) This week in Google alerts
To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
Date: Wednesday, November 2, 2011, 3:23 PM




 


 

From: Andrew Mason 

> But

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_Long Sun_ was originally planned independently of _New Sun_; can it

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be that Wolfe initially did think of it as closer to our time, and

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later, when he decided to integrate it with _New Sun_, had difficulty

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finding a date which fitted both?

 

I forgot about that – it’s a very good point.  

 

Clearly Wolfe reckoned it could work well enough anyway, and indeed I think he is right.  But he obviously was forced to set up a tangle of threads that aren’t that easy to link up perfectly.

 

- Gerry Quinn

 

 

"Planned indepedently" - what does Andrew mean here?  It was planned after New Sun, but he clearly from the very beginning wanted it to be in the same universe.  Pas as Typhon is not a late addition to the text, it's written in from the very very beginning.  He didn't add those connections in in second draft.

 

Wolfe had his timeline of relative events planned out from the beginning of Long Sun, in my opinion.  My his idea of the futurity of Urth changed but the relative timelines of the two series are not subject to that kind of fudging.
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