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In a totally unrelated way to Wolfe I would like to ask for some help from the good people of this list. I remember reading, a long time ago, about a series of books about which …
22 Aug 2008, 20:03
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04 Aug 2008, 10:16
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Yes. From: laybournchris at hotmail.comTo: urth at lists.urth.netDate: Fri, 16 May 2008 12:45:40 -0700Subject: Re: (urth) How list works and questions to mailers…
16 May 2008, 21:23
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14 May 2008, 13:48
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I liked it pretty much. It complements the BOTNS perfectly. The writting style and pace is somewhat different, I can see some people not liking it as much as BOTNS, but I did like …
14 May 2008, 13:47
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Ahah, funny! Maybe I should read them again after all these years?...LOL From: JBarach at aol.comDate: Tue, 13 May 2008 12:22:19 -0400To: urth at lists.urth.netSubject: Re: (urth…
13 May 2008, 16:35
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If if you have no problem admitting that, why the vitriolic take on socialism? I like how you are carefull in naming the culprits "Christian organizations" and leaving the christia…
13 May 2008, 15:16
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13 May 2008, 15:01
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Like the Church, you mean?…
13 May 2008, 15:00
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You make it sound like socialism is an horrible disease.…
13 May 2008, 12:19
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Yes, I do recomend Dune. Very good indeed. The folowing 5 books in the series are just so-so, not as good as the first one. But still they are clearly Frank "Herbertish" and you co…
13 May 2008, 12:17
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Nope. Yes, I have more of an hard sci-fi bent, but I like every kind of literature, including fantasy. Notice that some of the books I recomended are not even really sci-fi, or har…
12 May 2008, 20:46
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I didn't like James Blish's A Case of Conscience. I felt the novel was lacking in all fronts and very overrated. Still, its a matter of personal taste. Tim Powers I would recomen…
12 May 2008, 20:27
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From: radontrooper at hotmail.comTo: urth at urth.netDate: Sun, 11 May 2008 00:14:58 +0100Subject: (urth) How list works and questions to mailers Hi In my first email on this …
10 May 2008, 23:33
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I think he already did.…
21 Mar 2008, 00:53
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That which you say is certainly true, especially if we remember that famous paragraph about the power of symbols and I understand where you’re hinting at. But if we accept that Tri…
08 Jan 2008, 22:20
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Jeff is right here (at least to me). The Claw means nothing, it's powerless, just a symbol. The true power was with Severian already, not the claw. Pedro…
08 Jan 2008, 11:54
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Interesting. Thanks for the response.…
22 Dec 2007, 08:38
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I do agree that wolfe is very well read comparing to the majority of writers these days. Still, he is not perfect and far as the geology part of things go, I find many inconsistenc…
21 Dec 2007, 20:58
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1) No, I don't think its a tiny nitpick, because one thing is assuming a supernatural event in which miracles do occur and another is subverting scientific facts or accepted presen…
21 Dec 2007, 20:48
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Also, people tend to try to find answers to legitimize their point of view in strict scientific views, like "the moon can't be so close to earth because of "this"", or "there's not…
21 Dec 2007, 15:25
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Yes, I read yor essay. Good stuff. As I said before I'm not convinced that SS is set in a distante future of our system, but neither am I convinced it is not. This may not be impor…
21 Dec 2007, 15:09
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And by the way, let me say that the Blue/Green system was the intended destination right from the start according to Wolfe, which puts to rest some theories that the Whorl changed …
21 Dec 2007, 12:52
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The answer is right here in this list. Its one of the few interviews in which memebers asked questions that Wolfe later answered: <<<<From: m.driussi at genie.comSubject: (whorl…
21 Dec 2007, 12:44
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Let me clarify things then. I will again state that the only reason we have a STL generation starship is because Wolfe wanted to write a book about one. I think not even he knows e…
21 Dec 2007, 12:40
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Good that you confirm that, I didn't remember if extra-solar system rule by Typhon was clearly established in TBotNS. Anyway, couldn't he be just lying while he was tempting Severi…
20 Dec 2007, 13:27
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The reason why Typhon had two heads is explained in TBotNS. He needed a new body, but just tranfering the brain would not do any good, because a Leader is recognized by his Face. T…
20 Dec 2007, 12:58
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This is something I always though too. I think Wolfe does try to make sense from a scientific point of view, but he's not God and he does produce mistakes. But its certain that man…
18 Dec 2007, 12:07
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I agree with you. That's way I'm not in either side of the fence regarding this matter. Where I disagree with you is that I do think these discussions are interesting and are ob…
17 Dec 2007, 19:31
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I'm not trying to prove anything. I'm not in either the Solar System "faction" or the "entirely-new-system" one. All I'm saying is that I don't think Wolfe has provided a definite …
17 Dec 2007, 18:55
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Sorry to say, but I HAD read that interview and that's why I say I'm not convinced. For example, the interviewer only asks about the Earth and Moon. What about Venus as Green? So t…
17 Dec 2007, 16:29
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Sorry if you wasted your time. I've been through the whole list already, so I thought I might have missed one of the rare occasions in which wolfe actually states clearly (and he d…
17 Dec 2007, 11:00
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I think I've read every single Wolfe interview on the web and I still am unconvinced. I didn't read any unequivocal answer from wolfe on this matter. Could you point it out? Pe…
17 Dec 2007, 09:38
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Not preventing the extinction of humanity; he would prevent the extinction of HIS MEMORY. He was quite megalomaniac and he could simply want for his memory (and his Pas version) to…
17 Dec 2007, 09:36
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From: undergod_13 at hotmail.comTo: urth at lists.urth.netDate: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 03:50:45 +0000Subject: Re: (urth) Prior Race On Blue And Green From: domus_artemis at hotmai…
17 Dec 2007, 09:26
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Couldn't he be traveling through Ysod instead, like the Tzadskiel ship? That would require no FTL speed and the results could be similarly satisfactory. Pedro…
17 Dec 2007, 08:59
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They may be the "future" humans. We know from TBotNS that the next step on human (directed) evolution will be the Green Man race. Who knows how things go from there? We're talking …
16 Dec 2007, 23:05
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<<Why would the Whorl be constructed to just recolonize Earth and Lune (or Venus)? The only reasonable explination I can find is that they wanted to colonize another system but th…
16 Dec 2007, 23:02
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That doesn't strike as much of a problem for a level of technology that puts a black hole in the center of the Sun (unless it was the Hierogrammates and not Tartaros or one of Typh…
16 Dec 2007, 19:47
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The point we are making with the moon is not mute because we are considering that it may be either Green or Blue (depending on the theory accepted), so we are considering two celes…
16 Dec 2007, 19:28
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From: mcquaryq at comcast.netDate: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 23:02:47 -0500To: urth at lists.urth.netSubject: Re: (urth) Cumaean??? Steve wrote: Then how explain the material Sev finds in t…
16 Dec 2007, 11:36
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What about in the asteroid belt? We are talking about galaxy spanning ship technology. I don't think there would be much a problem to increase the moons mass to a point where it co…
16 Dec 2007, 11:23
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From: ash_crill at hotmail.comTo: urth at lists.urth.netDate: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 14:02:48 -0700Subject: Re: (urth) Urth Digest, Vol 40, Issue 15 The only problem is that there i…
16 Dec 2007, 11:13
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Well, this another case where some "artistic freedom" has been taken by Wolfe. But again, it's not totally unconcievable that a city or a sucession of cities could lead to relative…
16 Dec 2007, 11:02
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I haven't read SS yet, as I said before in another response, but I though the atmospheres touched. Me bad! Anyway, maybe you have a point there. I did read a little bit of the firs…
15 Dec 2007, 15:57
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I agree with you here regarding time. But anyway, after material gets subducted, I garantee that there will be no vestigies of anything when it gets back to form new crust...…
15 Dec 2007, 14:31
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Acrually I though of that after writing the above comentary. I agree. If the mass of the moon was increased it was almost surely to contain the atmosphere. In fact, the moon probab…
15 Dec 2007, 14:16
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No need to ask for forgivness. I enjoy these scientific discussions, especially since I'm "into the business"...so please, feel free to shoot your questions as I find the discussio…
14 Dec 2007, 23:51
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I don't remember the discription and I'm too lazy to check it out. So, I don't know the particulars of the description. Anyway It doesn't strike me as something impossible. It woul…
14 Dec 2007, 23:31
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I'm a geologist. There's no "serious" geology going on between Severian's time and ours. South America seems to be basically the same as now. So there are no substantial destructi…
14 Dec 2007, 22:13
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