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This is something I always though too. I think Wolfe does try to make sense from a scientific point of view, but he's not God and he does produce mistakes. But its certain that many things in the Solar Cycle are done with a lot of artistic liberty. <BR>
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Pedro<BR>
<BR><BR>> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:10:54 -0600<BR>> From: jwilson@io.com<BR>> To: urth@lists.urth.net<BR>> Subject: Re: (urth) The Case for Mundanity<BR>> <BR>> Dave Lebling wrote:<BR>> > I'm also on the mundane end of the spectrum as far as many of the minor <BR>> > difficulties with chronology and sequence in the whole NS/LS/SS cycle, <BR>> > which is that a series of books written over nearly twenty years, each <BR>> > sub-series of which was unforeseen when the previous one was written, <BR>> > are going to contain some problematic dissonances because, for all the <BR>> > evidence to the contrary, Gene Wolfe is in fact human.<BR>> <BR>> > He's not Hal Clement, so <BR>> > he didn't sit down and calculate out all the geology and history, he <BR>> > just wrote the story, and years later he wrote more stories that twisted <BR>> > the chronology still more, and so on.<BR>> <BR>> Absolutely. The books should not be taken as hard SF, and attempting to <BR>> do so produces all sorts of paradoxes and contradictions. It came to me <BR>> today that Ash is not the harbinger of the end of Urth, instead it is in <BR>> fact the Green Man; rather than going to sleep under the ice, Urth would <BR>> broil under a new sun 100 times brighter than the old, because that's <BR>> how much light it would take to provide enough calories to sustain a <BR>> person in a person's worth of surface area.<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> -- <BR>> Jeff Wilson - jwilson@io.com<BR>> < http://www.io.com/~jwilson ><BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> Urth Mailing List<BR>> To post, write urth@urth.net<BR>> Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net<BR><BR><br /><hr />Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! <a href='http://clk.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/' target='_new'>MSN Messenger</a></body>
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