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Perhaps he's thinking of another handful of magic beans, Jack.…
10 Dec 2008, 14:43
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Seventeen is the Urthly thirteen - _Lives_ can draw on all of the Age of Myth and such and just pick the 17 most lurid folks from the likes of Chernovog, Vlad the Impaler, Aleist…
10 Dec 2008, 06:03
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Existing volcanoes travel with the continental plates. In the case of Hawaii, there's a relatively stationary hotspot in the mantle that burns new ones through the crust as it pa…
10 Dec 2008, 05:37
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They could have been in hiding somehow, and then didn't bother with the shielding or whatever after he was dead. good guess, though small black holes are sometimes characterized …
10 Dec 2008, 05:28
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That was my thought at first, but Severian goes on to survive watery peril without a companion undine at hand.…
10 Dec 2008, 05:04
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Possibly. Abaia is said to be one of the Great Beasts, but so was Aleister Crowley in his time. The library book _Lives of the Seventeen Megathereians_ implies that many Great Be…
09 Dec 2008, 19:09
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Abaia could be an enormous, ageless leviathan grown from some earlier epoch's premiere thaumaturgist, like Baldanders begins to be during Severian's reign, or it could be somethi…
09 Dec 2008, 05:13
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How is physically traveling different from awakwning with otherworldly memories?…
08 Dec 2008, 21:03
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Hierogrammate means "holy scribe" , so there must be *some* paperwork and bureaucracy involved.…
08 Dec 2008, 19:24
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Good enough; can you describe anything about the mechanism for viewing or physically shunting to other lines?…
08 Dec 2008, 16:50
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But an *eater* of Severian could, and the Hierogrammates share memories much like users of the alzabo do, so if one saw the Increate, they all may have.…
08 Dec 2008, 16:47
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THe Hierogrammates seem to have an improved from of witness in that that absorbed fragments share with the main body and the main body with new fragments. They also demonstarte an…
08 Dec 2008, 16:44
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That is, Is there a timeline for every possible alternative outcome of every quantum uncertainty? Or is there some more selective criteria?…
08 Dec 2008, 16:28
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Is the tree of alternatives fully populated?…
08 Dec 2008, 08:54
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Separate God in each, or One for all and all under One?…
08 Dec 2008, 08:28
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They might have superior knowledge of God's will if their superior preception in time and space includes divine interventions like the literal words and deeds of our cycle's Chri…
08 Dec 2008, 08:21
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On the other hand, vanishing into the past is cool, they even did a Star Trek episode around it.…
07 Dec 2008, 05:27
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Which god is this, then?…
06 Dec 2008, 06:09
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So do it. It's very suspicious that a tongueless being from another universe is so succinct in their communication with a race they've never met before. Or perhaps they have con…
06 Dec 2008, 06:04
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Right - same with lots of people and the Kennedy Assassination, though the Zapruder film wasn't broadcast until 1975.…
06 Dec 2008, 05:43
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His argument is well reasoned, but it rests on some fine hair splitting that falls below the demonstrated level of lexical resolution of dialogue in the Book that is translated a…
05 Dec 2008, 22:08
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Can you pint out the the textev for the Heirogramates being behind the dying sun? I can point out that they *dont* likely have the resourced for an airlift (each archipelago on …
05 Dec 2008, 17:19
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It's a great story, and I disagree with the "equally maddening" review. If anything, the Soldier books are a hearty and satisfying double-decker sandwich vs BOTNS's too spicy 666…
05 Dec 2008, 05:14
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That's okay, the Soldier doesn't either.…
05 Dec 2008, 02:29
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Delany's the champion of the SF reading protocols theory, right? I suppose I am advocating a weak version of that, in that serious science fiction writers ought to be informed a…
05 Dec 2008, 01:40
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Is the imperishable attribute scriptural?…
04 Dec 2008, 05:51
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I don't think there's *any* cooling of Urth's core, from any cause, as we understanding here in 2008. The dimming of the old Sun and chilliads of environmental damage are more th…
04 Dec 2008, 02:52
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What a kind offer! What objective metric is being used by what fully informed party to judge the meaning of the text?…
04 Dec 2008, 02:21
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Petrification and fossilization can happen in as little as 100,000 years, and things might be sped up by the odd industrial spill of futuro-embalming fluid or nuclear bombardment…
04 Dec 2008, 00:45
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Petrified tree stumps are no problem, they can happen in as little as 100,000 years, and the pile of uncorruptive statue-bodies at Saltus demonstrate that a similar preservative …
04 Dec 2008, 00:26
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What about Lazarus, et al?…
03 Dec 2008, 23:35
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To show that many, many human societies have arisen, fallen, and been trampled unto dust, and the dust piled upon dust until it has become fused into rock. Wolfe may be one-uppin…
03 Dec 2008, 21:49
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I don't see how there becoming more popular over the chilliads or posing them back to back makes them significantly less plausible. Abaia and Erebus are large as mountains themse…
02 Dec 2008, 23:27
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The mountain faces are precisely as believable as Mt. Rushmore and Georgia's Stone Mountain.…
02 Dec 2008, 09:45
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It might even be the Underpants Gnomes' winter quarters. That rminds me, other than drinking Mate, lots of other current Age customs seem to have endured into Sev's era, includi…
02 Dec 2008, 00:32
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remaining at the surface should mean the structures get even more weather and erosion than if they were safely buried in detrius or middens.…
02 Dec 2008, 00:26
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Aristotle may have been the first to write down certain best practices, but the guidelines have been around a while.…
02 Dec 2008, 00:19
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but the author includes an explanation for the sailing spaceships - there's no suggestion of why time passes so differently at the stone town, Casdoe's cabin, and Saltus.…
01 Dec 2008, 23:48
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You can't have it both ways in a story that spans the timeline of ruin and geological change.…
01 Dec 2008, 23:23
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That's still not a "get out of internal consistency free" card.…
01 Dec 2008, 23:06
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They relate to the reckoning of time in years, which you've just said is a mistake, so I won't burden you with this spurious notation.…
01 Dec 2008, 20:47
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This already happens, except that it's even cheaper to dump the junk out on the ground in China where entire villages subsist on what they can sift out, instead of letting it be …
01 Dec 2008, 20:38
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The forested moon has to be superscience or an illusion or a deliberate fake, there being no other way to keep air on such a small body. none of the three are time-critical. Tod…
01 Dec 2008, 20:19
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The Stone Town would not have survived millions of years after the time of the Incas in recognizeable form. Plus, in the afterword of _Shadow_, "G.W." the translator of Severian'…
01 Dec 2008, 20:00
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Some of those tunnels go back in time and/or have still-working contrivances like anti-gravity or moving surfaces, so that "can't be too far away" might be longer than you think.…
01 Dec 2008, 16:36
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During the chilliads between our age of Myth and Severian's time, most extant buildings and underground structures will have served any number of purposes. Many underground locat…
01 Dec 2008, 15:45
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ISTR that it has been traced to the black beans thrown by a woman, and that the woman has been identified as Typhon's daughter Scylla, but I couldn't provide you with the provena…
30 Nov 2008, 20:36
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Yes - it would be unthinkable for him to write a graphic novel about characters and situations originally appearing in prose novels.…
29 Nov 2008, 10:30
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There's also a 1992 Steve Martin movie _Leap of Faith_ where a fake faith healer conman becomes so persuasive that when he leads the marks in prayer, unplanned non-fake miracles …
26 Nov 2008, 16:20
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I'm Brian, and so is my wife!…
20 Nov 2008, 03:49
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