What's So Great About Ushas?

Roy C. Lackey · 11 Jun 2008, 05:05 · from 2008-June.txt.gz

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From: rclackey at stic.net (Roy C. Lackey)
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:05:29 -0500
Subject: (urth) What's So Great About Ushas?
Message-ID: <000a01c8cb80$c7da8b20$ebd24a0c at rclackey.stic.net>

Jeff Wilson quoted and wrote:
>> Neat trick, that, if the Ship can hold it below or above its decks
without
>> getting sucked in. Stipulating such a fantastic container for a baby
black
>> hole, then what? How does it get from the Ship to the center of the sun?
Or
>> failing that, if a fly-by is made and the black hole jettisoned to the
>> surface of the sun, then what? How long does it take to eat up enough of
the
>> sun to make the textually specified difference in the temperature on
Urth?
>
>Er, wasn't it one of Typhon's children who threw "black beans on the
>grave of the sun"?  They would have had access to several ships who
>could have been used to as magnetic tongs to move a small hole in, and
>if Wolfe is using the then-plausible Einstein-Rosen bridge idea, they
>could use the smaller hole to gate in a larger one from elsewhere in the
>galaxy, and thus leapfrog up to whatever size was necessary.

I don't believe there is any mention at all of Typhon's children in the Urth
Cycle, and the only black bean story I recall is the one told by Jonas at
the very end of SHADOW, which makes no mention of the sun. Anyway,
"grave of the sun" sounds like that sun is already dead. Where is the quote
found?

-Roy

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