<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">In a Gene Wolfe book, either the map is awfully important and nobody has studied it well</div><div dir="ltr">enough, and presenting a half-accurate version is counterproductive, or the map is a mere detail and worrying too much about it is counterproductive.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">But if the Comminwealth is supposed to be South America and Nessus is Buenos Aires, then certainly the Gyoll cannot be the Amazonas.</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">No dia 06/12/2020, às 13:54, Fernando Gouvea <fqgouvea@colby.edu> escreveu:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<p>Centipede Press <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jerad@centipedepress.com"><jerad@centipedepress.com></a> asks:</p>
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text-align:left;">Okay. I might be sorry I asked this, but who
are the “Gene Wolfe” people out there? As you know, I am doing
new editions of the six-book <em>The Book of the New Sun</em>
series. One nice thing to have would be new maps. I found an
artist in France who does this sort of work with flair and
panache, but the artist is looking for help with the basic
structure of the The Book of the New Sun’s world. If you’re
the Gene Wolfe fan who obsesses over this, and has rigorously
analyzed all of the maps thus far created (there’s one on
Wikipedia, and one created by Gurps, too, among several
others) — your help is requested with this project. All I need
to know is what is (are) considered the most regarded and
considered the most accurate map(s). My map maker can
extrapolate from there and make it into something amazing. If
you’re that person, who’s really really <em>really</em> into
this, and who knows the subject backwards and forwards, please
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Fernando Q. Gouvea <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.colby.edu/~fqgouvea">http://www.colby.edu/~fqgouvea</a>
Carter Professor of Mathematics
Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics
Colby College
5836 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, ME 04901
The rule is: any movie with a dad is a movie with a bad dad.
-- Frederica Mathewes-Green
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