Just picked up

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 08 Apr 2006, 21:00 · from 2006-April.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 14:00:57 -0700
Subject: (urth) Just picked up
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On 4/8/06, OOC 1992 <ooc1992 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just picked up the Book of the New Sun. Cannot put it down, wonderful
> reading. I have heard of this book for some time. When does it explain the
> how the planet went from Earth to Urth- a history of the process as it were?

It doesn't.

In some external comments, Wolfe has stated that there is no
real process: that this is the "do-nothing" future of Earth where
we neither really solve any of our big problems nor quite ever
succumb to them. This is (like so many Lupine extratextual
statements) a bit evasive, as it does not explain a great deal...

--Dan'l

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