This week in Google Alerts

Lee Berman · 01 Nov 2011, 12:14 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 08:14:58 -0400
Subject: (urth) This week in Google Alerts
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>Matt Keeley: The happy reviewer of Shadow states that Urth is "clearly" part of Earth's
>future. When was this list last so sure of anything about a Wolfe book?

Hm..I haven't seen anyone debate that the story is set in S. America for a while. That
had been an early debate here.

But, didn't we all think Urth was the future of Earth at one time? I think it would be
difficult to consider that Urth is a parallel and future version of Earth without 
exposure to the debates here and the Wolfe interview quotes.

(FWIW, I think the S. America conclusion supports the parallel Urth idea. It isn't easy to
consider a geologic upheaval that could move the Andes from the west side to the east side 
of the continent while leaving Lake Titicaca and its floating islands intact.)

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