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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=soloviev@irit.fr
href="mailto:soloviev@irit.fr">Sergei SOLOVIEV</A> </DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><BR>> One extra remark - to me, from the point of view of literary
evolution <BR>> of Gene Wolfe, the<BR>> Tsadkiel ship seems a possible
development of the idea of the ship in <BR>> "Silhouette".</DIV>
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<DIV>I would rather place the Whorl as an evolution of the ship in
Silhouette. Both are human-constructed, and both have been subject to
mission-creep (although in Silhouette the crew have only been aboard about
twenty years ship time). In both cases there are Sleepers who, when woken,
feel they have come on board yesterday.</DIV>
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<DIV>There are other echoes of future work: the enhanced height of the Captain
is reminiscent of exultants, for example.</DIV>
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<DIV>- Gerry Quinn</DIV>
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