Ascian

Robin Dunn · 21 Jan 2011, 05:37 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: bigbadgerjohnny at gmail.com (Robin Dunn)
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:37:45 -0800
Subject: (urth) Ascian
Message-ID: <AANLkTinLYxBFCCYZ45rCOhuubzHjS3wDVJ9Zsbktegoc at mail.gmail.com>

This may have come up before, but I believe Ascian comes from the
Latin for "no shadow" as the Ascians are supposed to be near the
equator.  Wolfe says as much in an interview somewhere.

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