An Old mystery ...

Jeff Wilson · 07 Dec 2008, 05:27 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2008 23:27:15 -0600
Subject: (urth) An Old mystery ...
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Matthew Groves wrote:
> I think the main reason Wolfe didn't evacuate Urth rather than flooding 
> it, other than linking the story to other world-flood myths, especially 
> Genesis, is that an airlift really sucks as a climax, whereas a flood is 
> really cool.

On the other hand, vanishing into the past is cool, they even did a Star 
Trek episode around it.

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >

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