The Inhumi Inigma

Jeffrey Brent McBeth · 23 Jan 2009, 01:08 · from 2009-January.txt.gz

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From: mcbeth at broggs.org (Jeffrey Brent McBeth)
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:08:30 -0500
Subject: (urth) The Inhumi Inigma
In-Reply-To: <756246.72178.qm at web30805.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 05:07:18PM -0800, J Jankiewicz wrote:
> What really never makes sense to me is how in the heck did the inhumi
> breach the Whorl and get inside?? Doesn't anybody think that just
> wrong is so many ways? You would have security alarms, airlocks to
> open somehow, lack of technology by the inhumi to break in, etc etc.?
> Seems like a Deus ex Machina on Wolfe's part.

I'm guessing you haven't read Book of the Short Sun yet.

Spoiler warning for BotSS


I seem to remember that it was stated fairly explicitly by the
Neighbors that they got the inhumi into the Whorl.  

As far as them rising in power in an alien society, I would claim
their empathetic abilities are fairly well dealt with in BotSS

Jeff
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