[fictionmags] Wolfe And Alternate History

Jerry Friedman · 04 Feb 2002, 17:21 · from urth-v0202.mbox · original

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From: Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) Fw: [fictionmags] Wolfe And Alternate History
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 09:21:15 -0800 (PST)
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--- Andy Robertson <andywrobertson at clara.co.uk> wrote:
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Good gosh!  Maybe this statement will help me understand the story, but
how can you tell "Copperhead" is not near-future?  Does this make "The
Peace Spy" alternate history?

There's plenty of alternate history, of a sort, in BotNS, and rather less
in _Free Live Free_.

Speaking of BotNS, has anyone discussed the possibility that the Severian
in BotSS is not the one we know, but one from an "earlier" timeline?  That
would explain the discrepancies between the accounts of Merryn in New Sun
and Short Sun.  If either Severian or Silkhorn is simply deceiving us,
why?  (Not because Severian decided not to put Silkhorn in his book, it
seems to me--he could have broken that oath, as he broke so many others,
or he could have easily gotten around it.)

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