(urth) The Book of the Long Sun Question
James Wynn
crushtv at gmail.com
Wed Sep 21 11:41:00 PDT 2011
On 9/19/2011 9:52 AM, Antonin Scriabin wrote:
> Well, I finally finished /The Book of the Long Sun/. I thought it was
> wonderful, but I do (of course!) have a few questions. The first is,
> how did Quetzal get on the /Whorl/? The inhumi are natives of Green,
> so maybe he found some way aboard the /Whorl/ while it was in orbit?
> If so, it would seem that they were in orbit for some time, since
> Quetzal obviously spent several years on board.
> Also, why would he try, in his last moments, to get the settlers to go
> to Green? As food for other inhumi?
Wolfe explained in the Q&A (just prior to the release of On Blue's
Waters) that Quetzal wanted a thriving colony on Green. Why? You have to
read the books.
http://www.ansible.co.uk/cc/cc77.html#wolfe
> I haven't read /The Book of the Short Sun /yet, so if these
> inhumi-related questions are answered there, just tell me to read and
> find out :-)
There are lots of ways for the inhumi to have arrived at the Whorl. It
would be a spoiler to detail any of them.
J.
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