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<font face="Calibri" color="#000000">Nothing so emphatic. I think
you are conflating two interviews:<br>
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<p class="editorial"><font face="Calibri" color="#000000"> James
Jordan: I might as well at least <i>ask</i> one of the
$64,000 questions, so I'll just go for broke. (Hmm. I've gotta
be very precise here. Okay, here goes:) Which of the
following, if any, are physically (not in some merely literary
or symbolic sense) the same planets as Blue and Green, in the
same order?:</font></p>
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<p class="editorial"><font face="Calibri" color="#000000">Ushas
and Lune<br>
Urth and Lune<br>
Lune and Ushas<br>
Lune and Urth<br>
Two Urths<br>
Two Ushases<br>
Two Lunes<br>
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Wolfe: None.</blockquote>
<font face="Calibri" color="#000000">And this:<br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri" color="#000000">Nick Gevers: </font><font
face="Calibri" color="#000000">When I began reading <b><i>Short
Sun</i></b>, I, like many others, was struck by the new
work's resonance of location with earlier novels [<b>The Fifth
Head of Cerberus</b>; <b><i>New Sun</i></b>]. Twin worlds,
with respective blue and green associations: St Croix/St Anne;
Urth/Lune; Blue/Green. Not that these are literally the same
planets; but why this repeated pattern? (I should add that Joan
Gordon, and I myself, have speculated on an allusion in <b><i>Short
Sun</i></b> to Kim Stanley Robinson's colour-sequenced <b><i>Mars</i></b>
novels...) </font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Wolfe: At the time I first brought in Blue
and Green, I didn't know about Stan's books. Nothing of that
kind was intended. </font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Gevers: [Trying again:] Can your readers
usefully view <b>The Fifth Head of Cerberus</b> as being set in
the same science-fictional universe as <b><i>New Sun</i></b>, <b><i>Long
Sun</i></b>, and <b><i>Short Sun</i></b>? Why does Fifth
Head's pattern of blue/green sister worlds recur so
tantalizingly in Urth/Lune, Blue/Green? </font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Wolfe: I don't know. </font><br>
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When Wolfe says he "doesn't know", he is surely answering the
first of Gever's two shot : "Can readers *usefully* view tFHoC as
set in the same universe as Severian and Silk." <br>
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I simply refuse to believe that Wolfe doesn't know why the
Blue/Green pattern recurs. And following this line leads to the
conclusion that Wolfe is deliberately dodging the question. Two
conclusions open to us are: <br>
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1) Blue is St. Croix thousands of years later. Problem: No
Neighbors as such nor Mother make obvious appearances in tFHoC.<br>
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2) Wolfe has other reasons favoring the Blue/Green pair (it's not
just planets), and explaining them, he thinks, would reveal too
much of his "secret sauce".<br>
<br>
J Wynn<br>
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On 8/3/2011 8:15 AM, Antonin Scriabin wrote:</font>
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type="cite"><font face="Calibri" color="#000000">Hello! I just
finished <i>The Fifth Head of Cerberus</i>, and loved it. It
is one of the best science fiction stories I have read ... it
isn't very often I feel completely immersed in a world, but
reading this book really made me feel like I was wandering
through some eerie, mysterious realm where nothing was as it
seemed. Absolutely fantastic.<br>
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Anyways, I remember reading in an interview with Wolfe in which
he said that Saint Croix and Saint Anne were </font>
<font face="Calibri" color="#000000"><i>not</i> the Green and Blue
planets in the <i>Short Sun</i> books. Does anyone have any
idea where I can find that interview? Thanks!<br>
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