(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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