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(4) Are there inhumu on Urth? Horn/Silk mentions that Green is much larger and brighter when seen on the Red Sun whorl. Since inhumu can get to Blue, that would mean they could probably get to Urth much easier.
I recall that what is said is "their Green is larger and brighter than ours". The reference is to the Moon, called "Lune" in The Book of the New Sun, and appearing green because forests were planted on it in the forgotten past. The speaker is just calling all bright green celestial objects "Greens", as we call all satellites of planets "moons".
-- Dan Rabin
*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.