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Jason Voegele · 02 Feb 1998, 14:18
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From: "Jason Voegele" <voegele.6 at osu.edu> Subject: Re: (urth) Time Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 14:18:53 Message-ID: <urth-v0006-0505 at digest.urth.net> X-Urthmirror-Source: http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0006/0505.shtml MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_00D4_01BD2FE5.7DB879E0" [Posted from URTH, a mailing list about Gene Wolfe's New Sun and other works] This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00D4_01BD2FE5.7DB879E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable vizcacha wrote: >Deep Time: The hardest thing to believe about TBOTNS taking place 50 >million years in the future is that _so little_ has changed. People = are >still people, exactly as they are now. The average species lasts on = the >order of three million years. Even with all sorts of advanced >technology, would 50 million years have changed so little? This is not exactly true. I'm as yet unable to track down the = reference, but I'm sure that the text mentions somewhere that the people = of Sev's era have evolved quite a bit from the Homo Sapiens Sapiens = that we know today. Or maybe it's in one of Wolfe's essays. Anyway, = this could support the FAR future setting for The Book...if only I = could track it down. Of course, I've been looking for the "Coke bottle = beaches" reference for some time too. Methinks the hour is anon for = another reading. Jason ------=_NextPart_000_00D4_01BD2FE5.7DB879E0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=3Dtext/html;charset=3Diso-8859-1 = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META content=3D'"MSHTML 4.72.2106.6"' name=3DGENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY> <DIV>vizcacha wrote:</DIV> <DIV>>Deep Time: The hardest thing to believe about TBOTNS = taking place=20 50<BR>>million years in the future is that _so little_ has = changed. =20 People are<BR>>still people, exactly as they are now. The = average=20 species lasts on the<BR>>order of three million years. Even = with all=20 sorts of advanced<BR>>technology, would 50 million years have changed = so=20 little?<BR></DIV> <DIV>This is not exactly true. I'm as yet unable to track down the = reference, but I'm <EM>sure </EM>that the text mentions somewhere that = the=20 people of Sev's era have evolved quite a bit from the <EM>Homo = Sapiens=20 Sapiens</EM><EM> </EM>that we know today. Or maybe it's in one of = Wolfe's=20 essays. Anyway, this could support the FAR future setting = for The=20 Book...if only I could track it down. Of course, I've been looking = for the=20 "Coke bottle beaches" reference for some time too. = Methinks the=20 hour is anon for another reading.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Jason</DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_00D4_01BD2FE5.7DB879E0--
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