vanished people=Hieros

David Stockhoff · 06 Nov 2011, 18:55 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2011 13:55:49 -0500
Subject: (urth) vanished people=Hieros
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On 11/5/2011 11:50 PM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
> On 11/5/2011 9:50 PM, larry miller wrote:
>> First off I am not trying to prove anyone wrong or right.  I just
>> wanted to say that I remember reading an interview with Wolfe where he
>> is asked if the Neighbors are the Hierodules and he replies that they
>> are not nor are they cooperating with them in any way to shape
>> humanity.  Just wondering if any one can reconcile this with the Urth
>> is Green theory being discussed.
>
>
> If Green is Urth, and the vine-covered ruins are a long-abandoned 
> Nessus, then the Neighbors are the remnants of the final, most 
> ambitious uplift of the _actual_ human-cognate Hieros before their 
> Ascension. Urth was an unfashionable backwater by then, inhabited 
> chiefly by other experiements thus the four-armed gear and other 
> nonhumanoid amenities. The flora-sprung ur-Neighbors eventually 
> smothered the other underpeople races.
>
> The continuity mis-matches between the series are explainable as the 
> differences between manvantara-iterations. Just as the futuristic 
> BotNS is actually in the deep deep past, the Short Sun books are in 
> deep in that past's past.
>

Then where did Blue go?

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