the wall and baldanders

Roy C. Lackey · 18 May 2010, 18:15 · from 2010-May.txt.gz

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From: rclackey at stic.net (Roy C. Lackey)
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 13:15:26 -0500
Subject: (urth) the wall and baldanders
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Dan'l wrote:
>Isn't it directly stated that the Whorl (and thus presumably any ship
of its class) was constructed by hollowing out/inflating an asteroid?<

Yeah. From the list of proper names in RTTW:

"The _WHORL_, a spaceship whose vast interior cavity constitutes a small
world -- originally, an asteroid."

-Roy

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