Mystery of Ascia

James Wynn · 24 Jan 2011, 15:02 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 09:02:03 -0600
Subject: (urth) Mystery of Ascia
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>>
>> Lee Berman -
>> It wasn't in the interview, but since reading that, I have guessed that
>> Wolfe chose the name "Ascian" because it is an amalgam of "American" and
>> "Asian" adding the mistake about the equator/no shadow origin later to
>> justify that name.

Wolfe has said in an interview that the Ascian (as-kee-an) / Asian false 
association never occurred to him at the time of writing but 
acknowledged that it was a reasonable inference for a reader to make. 
The idea was that most people of the Commonwealth thought the Ascians 
were from the equator and had no idea that they were from much further 
north.

Of course, the name also implies that they are in darkness ("no 
shadow"); rejecting the light of the New Sun.

u+16b9

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