# Hybrid Vigor (doh!) *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 03 Apr 2001* > 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 *03 Apr 2001, 16:23* 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. ---