Quetzal

James Wynn · 17 Jan 2011, 12:09 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 06:09:13 -0600
Subject: (urth) Quetzal
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Why wouldn't he just hope that he would live long enough to get the ship 
launched. Then, what they knew about him would be immaterial.

On 1/17/2011 6:04 AM, Andrew Mason wrote:
> That's possible, and indeed Wolfe's words may suggest it, depending
> how strongly you interpret 'thriving'. Do we know what inhumi society
> on Green was like before the humans arrived there? Quetzal may have
> miscalculated what the impact would be.

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