House Absolute

Son of Witz · 04 Dec 2008, 18:38 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org (Son of Witz)
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:38:51 +0000
Subject: (urth) House Absolute
Message-ID: <W158131287656501228415931@webmail39>


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Matthew malthouse [mailto:calmeilles at gmail.com]
>Sent: Thursday, December 4, 2008 10:33 AM
>To: 'The Urth Mailing List'
>Subject: Re: (urth) House Absolute
>
>Son of Witz wrote:
>
>> When I asked "are there rules to fiction now" I didn't frame my
>> question right.
>> what I meant to say is, Are we to presume Wolfe has worked this thing
>> out perfectly so that there are no scientific implausibilities. It was
>> in response to a statement like "There SHOULD be internal consistency".
>> And of course, as the Mark Twain Rules would suggest, that there should
>> be. 
>
>You ommit the other part of what I said
>
>    "...or a reason for the lack thereof."
>
>Matthew

No I didn't.
"Are we to presume Wolfe has worked this thing out perfectly so that there are no scientific implausibilities"

this would be the reason for the lack thereof, that Wolfe didn't make a perfectly scientifically viable world here. 

Again, is he writing a fantasy or a prediction?
we can give the guy a little leeway on the science speculation, surely.

~witz

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