Yesod- what is it?

DAVID STOCKHOFF · 12 Aug 2010, 19:48 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (DAVID STOCKHOFF)
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:48:31 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) Yesod- what is it?
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What I was thinking is that, if the Hieromakers escaped to Yesod, it must have been available to them somehow. Perhaps it was discovered through FTL travel. Given that common SF tropes underly the books---and the older tropes are often deployed in TBotNS as though they were simple things we learned as children, because we DID learn them as children---it seems possible. And we know from Star Trek that it is possible to live and breathe there in a ship.

If they had then learned to colonize hyperspace, it could lead to completely artifical machine planets like Apheta's, there being no native ones to colonize.

Just a thought. For all I know, this would mean that the Yesodi planets must all be travelling at N or FTL to stay in hyperspace. 

--- On Thu, 8/12/10, Ant?nio Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Ant?nio Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) Yesod- what is it?
To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
Date: Thursday, August 12, 2010, 2:27 PM

Lee Berman wrote (12-08-2010 19:10):

> Yesod is a universe with suns and planets and gravity, like ours and Severian's.
> Can hyperspace or subspace have suns and planets and gravity and stuff like that
> in it? ??? ???????? ?????? ??? 

The way I see it, Yesod differs in that it connects to all the other universes. It probably has different properties as well, but that's not very relevant, I think.

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