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<DIV>Well gawsh I did read BotSS but apparently missed that key fact. Sigh, time to read them again! Well, continue please. WHY would the neighbors do this or even know of the Whorl? It wasn't that obvious in BotSS was it?<BR></DIV>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Jeffrey Brent McBeth <mcbeth@broggs.org><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> The Urth Mailing List <urth@lists.urth.net><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Thursday, January 22, 2009 7:08:30 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: (urth) The Inhumi Inigma<BR></FONT><BR>On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 05:07:18PM -0800, J Jankiewicz wrote:<BR>> What really never makes sense to me is how in the heck did the inhumi<BR>> breach the Whorl and get inside? Doesn't anybody think that just<BR>> wrong is so many ways? You would have security alarms, airlocks to<BR>> open somehow, lack of technology by the inhumi to break in, etc etc. <BR>> Seems like a Deus ex Machina on Wolfe's part.<BR><BR>I'm guessing you haven't read Book of the Short Sun yet.<BR><BR>Spoiler warning for BotSS<BR><BR><BR>I seem to remember that it was
stated fairly explicitly by the<BR>Neighbors that they got the inhumi into the Whorl. <BR><BR>As far as them rising in power in an alien society, I would claim<BR>their empathetic abilities are fairly well dealt with in BotSS<BR><BR>Jeff<BR>-- <BR>----------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over <BR>the man who cannot read them."<BR>-- Mark Twain<BR>----------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR></DIV></DIV></div><br>
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