(urth) Science Fiction and Fantasy Question

Sergei SOLOVIEV soloviev at irit.fr
Sun Apr 15 05:25:11 PDT 2012


I meant that the ship in the "Silhouette" looked like a sketch for 
future work.  For example, there
is a mutiny and mutineers, affiliated with cults, and that reminds the 
mutiny when Severian
is on the Tsadkiel's ship. The ship in "Silhouette"is a modular, loosy 
construction, and overmonitor
remodels it all the time. Maybe indirectly it is an argument for many 
ships in Solar cycle.
By the way, recently I asked myself, maybe the silhouette in the story 
is a cousin of notules?

Sergei Soloviev

Gerry Quinn wrote:
>  
>  
> *From:* Sergei SOLOVIEV <mailto:soloviev at irit.fr>
>
> > One extra remark - to me, from the point of view of literary evolution
> > of Gene Wolfe, the
> > Tsadkiel ship seems a possible development of the idea of the ship in
> > "Silhouette".
>  
> I would rather place the Whorl as an evolution of the ship in 
> Silhouette.  Both are human-constructed, and both have been subject to 
> mission-creep (although in Silhouette the crew have only been aboard 
> about twenty years ship time).  In both cases there are Sleepers who, 
> when woken, feel they have come on board yesterday.
>  
> There are other echoes of future work: the enhanced height of the 
> Captain is reminiscent of exultants, for example.
>  
> - Gerry Quinn
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