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Assuming a "Bussard ramjet-style" 1/2 continuous acceleration, 1/2 continuous deceleration flight profile, to calculate the necessary acceleration/deceleration and actual distance …
04 Sep 2001, 07:32
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We now know that roughly a thousand years has passed on "the red sun whorl" since the _Whorl_ was launched (_Green's_, ch 22), although only about 332 years had passed subjectively…
03 Sep 2001, 11:45
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I have been rereading BLS and BSS to look for answers for various questions related to the passage of time for the _Whorl_ and its voyage. Has anyone perchance picked up on any cl…
02 Sep 2001, 18:24
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Into the relative quiet reigning on the Urth list at present, I interject what I anticipate will be the final installment of BNS IAQ's. Hopefully these will turn out to be one of t…
22 Apr 2001, 09:18
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Some thoughts on these Vanished People / Neighbors. First of all, they seem to be tall, eight-legged arthropods, i.e. spider-people. When the Neighbor "Horn" offered Horn his hand…
25 Mar 2001, 22:43
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Some reflections on the robots of 5HC Much has been written about the soul Mr. Million, the purely electronic cyborg "simulation", clearly exhibits. Indeed the simulation seems to…
27 Feb 2001, 17:44
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Regarding St. Anne/St. Croix's star, far be it from me to belabor the master for it if he simply neglected to take the astrometric aspect into account. Bigger scientific errors hap…
21 Jan 2001, 00:36
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Mantis' letter of Dec 21 re twins caused me to dig the following out of my "drafts" folder in which it had been languishing while I either awaited the proper time for it, inspirati…
21 Jan 2001, 00:27
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"Who wrote that table of figures in Marsch's copy of _A Field Guide to the Animals of Sainte Anne_, which officer Constant identified as ballistics tables for a .35 cal rifle, and …
21 Jan 2001, 00:17
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No sooner did I crack my newly delivered used copy (Scribner's edition) of 5HC, but what should appear to my eyes but the following: Number Five, to "Dr. John V. Marsch" (actually…
20 Jan 2001, 23:32
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We had some discussion previously about some of the text shifts and editing missteps in 5HC from the original Scribner's 1972 edition and the Ace paperback. There was the infamous …
20 Jan 2001, 23:31
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A bit of cross-posting occurred, as I should have expected. <quote>But what am I saying?! You don't even have the book, and presumably haven't read it yet!</quote> I have indeed…
16 Dec 2000, 12:31
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I stand clarified now, 402 Annese days was the length of year for St. Anne/St.Croix given in the text, and Mantis' analysis aimed to deduce the length of the Annese day. All I can…
16 Dec 2000, 10:32
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HARD SCIENCE ALERT! SENSITIVE PERSONS TAKE COVER! Ste. Croix / Ste. Anne's (hrta "C&A") year is simply not likely to be longer than that of Earth, such as Mantis' 1.23 Earth years…
14 Dec 2000, 23:51
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<quote Tony Ellis> ..."disturbing"...Number 5 has become his own father... he has become the thing he hates. Loss of the Self is, perhaps, the ultimate horror. <unquote> That cert…
20 Nov 2000, 06:19
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----- Original Message ----- From: Ranjit Bhatnagar <ranjit at moonmilk.com> ... Considering the frequency of cross-list and hybrid discussions, I'm inclined to favor a unified list,…
17 Oct 2000, 20:47
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I am finally ready to weigh in on "And When They Appear". I thought Tony Ellis' suggestion that House was itself a trap and danger, al la HAL 9000 or Harlan Ellison's AM, was intr…
17 Oct 2000, 19:43
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Roy Lackey, Thank you for your yeoman's work on the chronology. Our copy of _Claw_ has unaccountably disappeared and I did so want to find and check the very incident you mention,…
26 Aug 2000, 14:24
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<quote> From: Jim Russell <J.A.Russell at exeter.ac.uk> Subject: Another tangent Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 11:21:41 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time) ... What would you guys say is GW's politica…
19 Aug 2000, 21:45
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The second "Master Palaemon exiled incognito older Gurloes" scenario, supposes that Palaemon had already been a master prior to his disgrace and exile. During his exile he named hi…
19 Aug 2000, 13:43
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The Palaemon Elevated After Restoration/Young Prodigy Gurloes Scenario Malrubius as remembered by Severian is described as seeming quite old, but he was also very ill with somethi…
19 Aug 2000, 13:42
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Mr Arimini: Enjoyed your idea about Pia as Severian's lost sister, and your reasoning is intriguing. You are hereby nominated for the Borski Award. Now, if a plausible explanation …
19 Aug 2000, 13:25
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... ... ... So I go there and read, <quote, from an unnamed LOCUS ONLINE flack> " ...We're particuarly excited about signing Gene Wolfe to write for Star Trek. His work will bri…
01 Apr 2000, 20:38
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<quote> ' The novelist [!] Gene Wolfe makes an identical, albeit lovelier, observation: We say, 'I will,' and 'I will not,' and imagine ourselves ...our own masters, whhen the tr…
26 Mar 2000, 23:28
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or, Revenge of the Annese I take it "No Planets Strike" plays off the old legend that the animals present in the stable during the Nativity were briefly gifted with speech. What …
26 Mar 2000, 13:19
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<quote> From: Damien Broderick <d.broderick at english.unimelb.edu.au> Subject: Re: (urth) More 5HC Variant texts Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 14:48:24 +1100 ... D'oh! My careless reading,…
17 Mar 2000, 20:14
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<quote Mantis, from 3-13-00> Here is the 1976 Ace version (p. 95 in both the $1.75 and $2.50 version <g>): "That which you call nothing is what holds all things apart. When it i…
14 Mar 2000, 07:25
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Did anyone else get the impression Jak's story in "One-Two-Three For Me" could have taken place on the world which would become Urth, during the forgotten millenia of the decline o…
12 Mar 2000, 13:02
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From: Dan Rabin <danrabin at a.crl.com> Subject: Variant texts of "The Fifth Head of Cerberus" Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 20:04:35 -0800 ... <quote> Micheal Andre-Driussi writes, That w…
12 Mar 2000, 12:52
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II: XXVI When Baldanders and Talos prepare to go their separate way from Severian, Dorcas, and the abandoned Jolenta, Sev argues with Dr. Talos to allow him a short time alone to a…
17 Jan 2000, 23:21
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I:V Adolescent Sev asks Rundesind, whom he just met in the pinakotheken, regarding the class of armigers: "What possible help can they give the world?". Rundesind replies "Why, wha…
31 Dec 1999, 09:57
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I must be suffering advanced enigma intoxication, seeing riddles under every bed. II:VIII When Sev immerses himself at Saltus in his memory of the undines' puppet-show dream, just…
29 Dec 1999, 22:46
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I was interested to see the notion of a Wolfe FAQ floated a short time back. It would appear just for the Urth cycle alone that in addition to the Big Questions catalogued in _Lexi…
25 Dec 1999, 15:44
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Dan, " Hmmm, I always assumed the plate read: M . Million Sometimes a dot is used to indicate multiplication. "Monsieur" is often abbreviated to "M." " You're right, of course. …
22 Dec 1999, 21:29
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Dan, " Hmmm, I always assumed the plate read: M . Million Sometimes a dot is used to indicate multiplication. "Monsieur" is often abbreviated to "M." " You're right, of course. …
22 Dec 1999, 21:15
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"Then you could read the whole assemblage as two 64-bit hex numbers and one 128-bit hex number: 151D, 1000, 1000E Now, what their significance might be, I still couldn't say, b…
20 Dec 1999, 00:17
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Let me chime in impertinently here to Mr. Ansley's letter of the 16th, as I haven't read the story yet, but was intrigued by the observation ). I have always suspected that the an…
18 Dec 1999, 16:00
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