(urth) The Ship
Gerry Quinn
gerry at bindweed.com
Mon Jan 9 11:44:32 PST 2012
From: Lee Berman
> The Ship may be big enough and all that but it is an unatural and unnecessary
> addition to the story since a large body to block the sun already exists. When the
> the white fountain arrives, it causes major cataclysms on Urth via "waves of
> gravitation". Adding a moon-sized Ship to Urth's vicinity might cause similar
> problems that locking the existing moon in place for a few extra hours wouldn't.
I would say the opposite: stopping the Moon in its orbit would be a cataclysmic event. And while the Ship is large, it is indicated to be about the size of an island ruled by a minor lord, which seems much smaller than the Moon.
> Further, Wolfe spends an inordinate amount of time adding a story component in
> which Tzadkiel's ship parks outside the solar system and sends in a small tender
> to drop Severian off on Urth. Maybe he/she is just trying to avoid the ship being
> detected by Typhon but that seems pretty weak to me. As mentioned before, FB&O do
> not appear on Urth at this time. They come later.
On the other hand, Wolfe mentions on two separate occasions that the Ship sometimes comes much closer in...
- Gerry Quinn
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