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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 06/12/2020 13:54, Fernando Gouvea
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<p>Centipede Press <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:jerad@centipedepress.com" moz-do-not-send="true"><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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<p>Interesting - though I can't help suspecting that Wolfe would be
disappointed if he let enough details slip to make any sort of
definitive map possible!</p>
<p>The popular hypothesis, as I'm sure you know, is that the
Commonwealth is based in South America and Gyoll is the Amazon.
Though this rather begs the question of what happened to Europe,
Asia and Africa, as no other continents are mentioned - unless one
counts those that will supposedly rise from the sea in the wake of
the New Sun's devastation. <br>
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<p>- Gerry Quinn<br>
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