A Price on my Head (was: Wash Post article)

James Jordan · 18 Apr 2002, 13:47 · from urth-v0204.mbox · original

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From: James Jordan <jbjordan4 at cox.net>
Subject: Re: (urth) A Price on my Head (was: Wash Post article)
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 08:47:56 -0500
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> > Perhaps I should articulate a challenge, to
> > those who don't think 5HC is set in Briah: what
> > actually disqualifies my assumption? Why do you say so
> > emphatically that 5HC doesn't fit?
>
>I'm not sure which way Occam's razor cuts.  Should one assume that an
>author's works are all set in the same universe unless there is evidence
>otherwise ("Universes should not be multiplied unnecessarily"), or does
>the assumption lie in the other direction ("Connections should not be
>assumed unnecessarily")?
>
>Would you have assumed the Long Sun books were set in Briah if Wolfe
>hadn't made the Pas-Typhon connection?
>
>I'm much more inclined to see a thematic connection (double planets, shape
>shifters, colonization, etc.) and I think that's sufficient reason to
>argue that 5HC is a companion work to the Sun books.

OTOH, if Urth is really Old Earth, then Marc's point about no memory at the 
dawn of time and full memory at the end of time hints that the Soldier 
books are also in the same universe!
         Anyway, they're all in Wolfe's universe!


Nutria


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> Perhaps I should articulate a
challenge, to
> those who don’t think 5HC is set in Briah: what
> actually disqualifies my assumption? Why do you say so
> emphatically that 5HC doesn’t fit? 
I'm not sure which way Occam's razor cuts.  Should one assume that
an
author's works are all set in the same universe unless there is
evidence
otherwise ("Universes should not be multiplied unnecessarily"),
or does
the assumption lie in the other direction ("Connections should not
be
assumed unnecessarily")?
Would you have assumed the Long Sun books were set in Briah if 
Wolfe
hadn't made the Pas-Typhon connection?
I'm much more inclined to see a thematic connection (double planets,
shape
shifters, colonization, etc.) and I think that's sufficient reason
to
argue that 5HC is a companion work to the Sun
books.
OTOH, if Urth is really Old Earth, then Marc's point about no memory at
the dawn of time and full memory at the end of time hints that the
Soldier books are also in the same universe!
<x-tab>        </x-tab>Anyway,
they're all in Wolfe's universe!

Nutria
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