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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi Craig,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">There was a Q&A session arranged by Mantis with Gene Wolfe back in 1997 in which the following exchange took place:</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">25. "Does Green/Blue have anything to do with THE FIFTH HEAD OF CERBERUS?" No. </FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><A HREF="http://www.urth.net/whorl/archives/v0007/0511.shtml">http://www.urth.net/whorl/archives/v0007/0511.shtml</A> </FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Is this what you were thinking of?</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Best wishes,</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Tim</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Message: 4</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 09:00:45 -0700 (PDT)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">From: Craig Brewer <cnbrewer@yahoo.com></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">To: The Urth Mailing List <urth@lists.urth.net></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Subject: Re: (urth) SINGLE Gene Wolfe literature universe?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">As I recall, there's an online interview where he addressed this, saying that, in his mind, they weren't all connected, except for the obvious Sun books. I think it may have been specifically about the planets in Fifth Head and Short Sun, where he said they weren't the same and weren't even the in same universe. I specifically remember him saying that they weren't the same planets, but not the bigger point. (Someone with better memory of his interviews could probably provide a link more easily than I could.)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">But who knows...maybe given Father Inire's mirrors and the murkiness of time travel and parallel universe speculation, why not? (But perhaps it becomes meaningless at this point since everything is in the same "universe" or "multi-verse" with infinite parallel universes, right?)</FONT></P>
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