# Tracking Song

*The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 20 Mar 2011*

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### Daniel Petersen
*20 Mar 2011, 00:03*

I wrote some thoughts on this novella (from *The Island of Doctor Death and
Other Stories and Other Stories*) on my Gene Wolfe blog here:

http://silkandhornheresy.blogspot.com/2011/03/tracking-song.html

I love this story.  Does anyone know if it's referencing any myths or
anything?  And did you notice how it pre-references some themes from the
Solar Cycle (such as vampire-bat-people, different sizes of humans,
forgotten technology, etc.)?

-DOJP

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