Urth is a colonised planet

Gerry Quinn · 26 Sep 2017, 15:57 · from 2017-September.txt.gz

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From: gerry at bindweed.com (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 15:57:48 -0000
Subject: (urth) Urth is a colonised planet
Message-ID: <5ed52bfa-d521-5a0d-2f9e-118c9f8692c5 at bindweed.com>

This just occurred to me as I was talking about _BOTNS_ in another venue.

We often talk about _FHOC_ as a discussion of colonisation, which of 
course it is.

But Urth in Severian's time is surely a colonised planet.? What brought 
it home to me was that I referred to visiting aliens, and I subsequently 
remembered they were called cacogens by the poeple of the Commonwealth.? 
But in fact they are the alien ruling class, enacting their decrees via 
the local aristocracy.

Urth has a glorious history, of course - Typhon conquered many star 
systems.? But now it has been brought to heel.

- Gerry Quinn

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