vanished people=Hieros

Gerry Quinn · 10 Nov 2011, 13:41 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: gerry at bindweed.com (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:41:22 -0000
Subject: (urth) vanished people=Hieros
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From: David Stockhoff 

> > Only if you reject the possibility that two different cities could be 
> > similar in certain respects.

> So, two cities by a river could be made of stone with clustered rocket 
> landers as towers? That's clearly possible, but which cities would those be?
It seems Roy has answered the question of the canted tower in the City of the Inhumi by pointing out that it wasn?t there.
And the one that was supposedly there *wasn?t* part of a cluster, so it?s different anyway.
As for the cities, we know that one was Nessus, built on Urth by humans (with some extra-Solar input), and one was the City of the Inhumi, built on Green by the Neighbours.  We were told this.
I don?t recall the general architecture of Nessus outside the citadel being described.  Was it full of skyscrapers like the City of the Inhumi appears to be?  If so, I think Severian would have mentioned them somewhere.  Even if it was, I don?t think it would be a defining property of a galactically unique city.
- Gerry Quinn
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