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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=jwilson@clueland.com
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3/29/2012 7:57 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:<BR>> *From:* David Stockhoff
<mailto:dstockhoff@verizon.net><BR>> > Of course it’s entirely
possible and to my mind likely that Abaia, the<BR>> > Green Man and the
Neighbours have extremely advanced technology, so<BR>> > advanced that it
looks like magic. I speculated before that if a kiss<BR>> > from Juturna
can make Severian capable of breathing underwater, it may<BR>> > well be
that her saliva contains nanomachines that will remodel his<BR>> > organs
of respiration.<BR><BR>> Baldanders certainly uses technology to adapt
himself to the water, <BR>> Juturna may be likewise adapted with gills
concealed by her green hair.<BR>> <BR>> Nanomachines weren't a thing at
the time of the BotNS' writing, and I <BR>> don't think it fits the retro
theme to invent "new" scientific <BR>> justifications.<BR></DIV></DIV>
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agree that Claw was written before Drexler popularised the concept of
nanomachines, and that Wolfe would probably not have been thinking specifically
of them. But I think it actually is the sort of thing he deliberately
leaves open. I don’t believe he would imagine that Juturna could do this
by ‘magic’, even if he has not thought much about the specific sort of
technology she would use.</DIV></DIV>
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course there is also the possibility that she is lying, but I doubt
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