planetary problems

Thomas Bitterman · 28 Dec 2010, 03:06 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: tom at bitterman.net (Thomas Bitterman)
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 22:06:51 -0500
Subject: (urth) planetary problems
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On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 3:07 PM, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:

>  It explains why the dream travelers ended up on Urth.
>

Two theories on why they ended up on Urth during astral/dream travel:
- Urth and Green are thematically similar.  The characters are in a
dreamlike state so distance is cognitive distance, not physical distance.
Most times when they travel they end up physically close because places that
are physically close tend to be closely associated mentally.  This trip they
are going to someplace close as measured by the author's (and maybe
reader's) mental map.
- They are close on bookshelves.  If Krait can travel into another
character's story, why can't this character travel to a different book?
Krait travels to a temporally close story, Silk/Whomever travels to a
somewhat more temporally-distant one.  As a bonus, given the way books are
generally shelved, Long/Short sun and Urth are generally physically close
together.
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