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<A title=crushtv@gmail.com href="mailto:crushtv@gmail.com">James Wynn</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><FONT face=Calibri>. </FONT><BR><BR><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><BR><FONT
face=Calibri>Wolfe: I don't know. </FONT><BR></DIV><FONT color=#000000
face=Calibri><BR>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." </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I'm not so sure of that. Perhaps he views the
first question as trivial. After all, even if Fifth Head is set in the
same universe as New Sun, the events precede it by an enormous stretch of
time. And the planets don't seem alike at all except for being twins and
habitable by humans. So what would be useful about it?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Wolfe has used human twins in his novels, and also
planetary twins. Perhaps there is some commonality in purpose. But
it may be in part simply a way to have two separate but interacting
civilisations which do not need to have a long history of interaction as would
two civilisations confined on the same planet if at least one were
technologically advanced.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>- Gerry Quinn</FONT></DIV>
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