Hybrid Vigor (doh!)

Michael Straight03 Apr 2001, 16:23original

I can't find it in the archives, but I could have sworn there was someone complaining about Horn going on and on about corn genetics at the beginning of OBW. I'd forgotten all about it until I started looking at OBW for the second time, and here it is, Wolfe laying out the theme of the whole series in the first chapter. I note that hybrids are stronger than the original strains, but ultimately a dead end, requiring you to go back to the original. -Rostrum *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.

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