# Digest urth.v028.n049 *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 07 Oct 1999* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Michael Straight *07 Oct 1999, 18:22* > On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Paul C Duggan wrote: > What about the detail (IIRC) in the Long Sun that the religion of the > Whorl "parodied" that of the state religion at the time of Typhon? Does > that indicate a kind of connection to christianity ("sign of addition", > minimally)? Oooo! A tricky question. How much do details from the Long Sun "count" in interpreting the New Sun books? Somehow I feel that's cheating. On the other hand, I don't feel that way at all about the Short Sun & Long Sun books, I guess because it feels like it's going to really be all one story. As for rumors that Severian may be involved somehow in the Short Sun books, I am prejudiced against the idea. The Typhon bit works because it's such a minor connection. But the feel of these two series is so different, I have trouble imagining them being brought together without one seeming out of place. (I haven't read _Blue_ yet, so I can't say anything about the 'feel' of that book.) -Rostrum --- ### Peter Westlake *08 Oct 1999, 09:17 · follows Michael Straight* At 18:22 1999-10-07 -0400, Michael Straight wrote: ... > As for rumors that Severian may be involved somehow in the Short Sun > books, I am prejudiced against the idea. The Typhon bit works because > it's such a minor connection. But the feel of these two series is so > different, I have trouble imagining them being brought together without > one seeming out of place. (I haven't read _Blue_ yet, so I can't say > anything about the 'feel' of that book.) There's also the problem that by the end of _Urth_ Severian has acquired god-like magical powers, and such heroes are famously difficult to deal with in fiction. Everything's too easy. S.Bear ---