This week in Google Alerts

James Wynn · 01 Nov 2011, 19:39 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:39:29 -0500
Subject: (urth) This week in Google Alerts
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> On 10/31/2011 8:36 PM, Matthew Keeley wrote:
> 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?

//I think there is little to be gained in understanding Urth as anything 
but is the future of our Earth.
Perhaps there is some geekish appeal positing that it is the future of 
an Earth in some parallel-dimension/universe. But for understanding the 
story and backdrop, there is little value one way or the other.

I think the interest in this debate in founded in ret-conning Briah to 
be theologically orthodox Christian. But with all the appeals to a 
gnostic framework in the story, why bother?

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