Severian's family tree

Roy C. Lackey · 25 Aug 2006, 04:32 · from 2006-August.txt.gz

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From: rclackey at stic.net (Roy C. Lackey)
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 23:32:39 -0500
Subject: (urth) Severian's family tree
Message-ID: <001a01c6c7ff$828ceee0$533ec6d8 at rclackey.stic.net>

Dan'l asks:

>Why do people keep referring to Severian's immediate predecessor
>as Appian? Is there some reference I've missed? I thought Appian was
>rather further back in the history of the Commonwealth, and that  Sev's
>predecessor was (deliberately?) left unnamed.

Appian isn't mentioned by name in NEW SUN. The name is used in the related
short story "The Cat", in ENDANGERED SPECIES. (p.-215, paperback)

-Roy

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