planetary problems

Thomas Bitterman · 28 Dec 2010, 05:44 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: tom at bitterman.net (Thomas Bitterman)
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:44:03 -0500
Subject: (urth) planetary problems
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On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 10:45 PM, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:

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>  Thomas Bitterman-
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>> Two theories on why they ended up on Urth during astral/dream travel:
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> I'm glad to see that Brunians is back.


En garde!
- If, at one point, a character can write himself into a story, why can't it
happen again?  How far did Krait have to travel to do that?
- Wolfe has already used the sorting order of books for a joke.  In 5HoC he
makes the Vernor Vinge/"W" joke.  We almost never ascribe something to
Wolfe's sense of humor, but certainly he must use it every once in a while.
- The idea that astral travel uses mental maps rather than physical ones is
a good one, at least as good as the "Silk = Blue" or "Blue is a
time-traveling version of Green" theories that are going around.
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