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</font>Lee Berman -<br>
It wasn't in the interview, but since reading that, I have
guessed that<br>
Wolfe chose the name "Ascian" because it is an amalgam of
"American" and<br>
"Asian" adding the mistake about the equator/no shadow
origin later to <br>
justify that name.<br>
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Wolfe has said in an interview that the Ascian (as-kee-an) / Asian
false association never occurred to him at the time of writing but
acknowledged that it was a reasonable inference for a reader to
make. The idea was that most people of the Commonwealth thought the
Ascians were from the equator and had no idea that they were from
much further north. <br>
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Of course, the name also implies that they are in darkness ("no
shadow"); rejecting the light of the New Sun.<br>
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u+16b9<br>
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