(urth) Violet = Plutonium?

[Sergei SOLOVIEV]

But it was you who developed the story several steps forward (to hypothetic
meeting between Siyuf and war minister at Trivigaunte). I think her uses
described in the text are only "tactical" - during the fighting in Viron.

By the way, the technology used to create chem "doubles" of councillors 
seems
more advanced than to create ordinary chems. Also we know
very little about chem officers (but we see that the capacities
of Sand are greater than of soldiers)


My impression concerning "Plutonium" is that Wolfe wanted
to show us that chems are able to "flirt" and joke. Sand understands very
well that Violet is human but since he thinks that she is
Viron spy (or double agent) - works FOR Viron, he makes a good-hearted  
joke.

Sergei Soloviev

David Stockhoff wrote:
> On 11/13/2011 3:54 PM, entonio at gmail.com wrote:
>> No dia 2011/11/13, às 17:21, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> 
>> escreveu:
>>
>>> What bothers me is that Siyuf herself later appears as a chem 
>>> double. Up to that point, the reader has no particular idea that 
>>> chems can actually fake being human, to the point that the 
>>> Ayuntamiento decides to send the fake Siyuf home in her place---and 
>>> apparently succeeds though their plan fails.
>>
>> Quite otherwise. The reader has by then witnessed in shock the 
>> unmasking of the chem councillors.
>
>
> Not quite otherwise at all. The reader does not sleep with the 
> councillors. Of course, we're not just talking about fooling readers, 
> are we, um, er, hey?
>
> The councillors were never very convincing as humans---Patera Quetzal 
> kept his secret longer. Lemur reveals his status almost as soon as we 
> meet him. None of the Ayuntamiento ever went out in public anyway, so 
> they had little need to work at fooling anyone and if they did it it's 
> not shown. They didn't live in deep cover as Siyuf and Violet do.
>
> And the Siyuf double does not have a real Siyuf lying in bed 
> controlling her. Lemur's death shows us how NOT to do it that way. The 
> Ayuntamiento couldn't just whip another Councillor off the assembly 
> line, could it? Silk had to bargain with a talusmaker just to get 
> taluses.
>
> So how was Siyuf 2 built? What kind of tech do the Councillors have, 
> exactly? Scanning? Instant facial replication? Is this not worth knowing?
>
>
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