What's So Great About Ushas?

Dave Tallman · 18 Jun 2008, 04:07 · from 2008-June.txt.gz

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From: davetallman at msn.com (Dave Tallman)
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:07:25 -0600
Subject: (urth) What's So Great About Ushas?
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
> It isn't just a flood; new continents are thrust up. If Abaia, who is pretty
> huge, couldn't get out of the way in time, he would be left a rotting
> corpse on one of the new continents.
>
> Which might explain the immense ribcage over New Crobuzon, come
> to think of it ....
>   
I'm not sure Abaia is that much larger than the undines. In Citadel 
XXXVII, the steersman said he heard the voices of undines coming up the 
Gyoll, along with a deeper voice that gave orders, 
"go-and-do-that-and-this-and-that." If that was Abaia, he's not so big 
and immobile that he can't come up the river. If so, it seems like he 
could get out of the way of an earthquake. If Juturna could survive, so 
could he.

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