# q: "How Old Mount Typhon?" a: "Old Mount *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 30 Jan 1998* > 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. --- ### David Rolsky *30 Jan 1998, 22:54* > At 04:43 PM 1/30/98 -0500, you wrote: > Woah, Gene Wolfe himself has said that there are only 2 chiliads between > our present time here inA.D. 1998, and Severian's time. (I think it is in the > People interview). I don't remember Wolfe mentioning this in the People interview at all! Anyway, ignoring all the mountain-carving and such, this book takes place when the sun is starting to lose its energy. I'm not an astrophysicist but I know that such an event is literally millions of years in our future. This is one of the things about these books that I found so immediately fascinating and I'd hate to give it up. (I love post-apocalypse stories and TBOTNS is a post-post-post-post-etc-apocalypse story) -Dave ---