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<p>Thanks anyway. It has been some time I read the books and much of
them alas went over my head.</p>
<p>When are your books coming out?<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Op 7-3-2018 om 00:41 schreef Marc
Aramini:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I don't want to start a round of Short Sun stuff
(please, please, please) but here is my take on what he may or
may not be talking about: some time after Horn falls into the
pit on Blue, a Vanished Person who also calls himself Horn
appears to speak to our narrator. That's the only new speciation
that might have anything to do with Horn - the rest Roberts
refers to are the false clues Wolfe is giving us that Silkhorn
might be inhumi: (light, doesn't have a good appetite - is he
truly a normal man with his ability to walk through the woods
without being touched? (yes, he has made a deal with the
vanished gods, who are trees)
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<div>Having said that, Horn dies on Green, goes into Silk's body
who has just faced Hyacinth's death on the whorl and has
either psychologically retreated or mostly succeeded in
killing himself, is a true amalgam of Horn and Silk as he
writes On Blue's Waters in as the Rajan of Gaon. When he sits
under the tree at the end of On Blue's Waters the majority of
Horn's spirit goes into Babbie and becomes the beast with
three horns, then it is Silk in denial for the rest of the
book, Silk a man as he always was, until finally he is faced
with the truth with the passage invoking the death of Hyacinth
in the writings and has come home to a house that is not his. </div>
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<div>But hey anyone can believe what they want - I have zero
interest in arguing this one at all. Just trying to address
what he might be talking about.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 2:46 PM, Ab de
Vos <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:foxyab@casema.nl"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">foxyab@casema.nl</a>></span>
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.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Adam
Roberts is a literature professor as well as a science
fiction writer.<br>
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In his "The History of Science Fiction" he devotes a short
chapter to Wolfe which he concludes by relating Wolfe to his
(Roberts) main thesis throughout the book: "Wolfe not only
revisits many of the conventions of 20th-century SF, he goes
further back than that, tapping into the deep roots of the
genre, interrogating the many ways in which notions of
salvation are inflected by our much broader materialist
understanding of the cosmos."(page 439)<br>
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After treating preliminaries his history starts in chapter
4: "Seventeenth century SF". Central is the dialectic
between matter, spirit and technology. Very interesting. His
chapter on Wolfe contains, I believe, some errors. He says
for instance:"Horn may or may not, mutate into a new form
of life across the course of the trilogy. "(page 438)
Anybody ring a bell. I thought Silk was Horn but didn't want
to give him up because then he Horn would be dead as they
were sharing the same body.<br>
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