Apu's Eclipse

Derek Bell · 19 May 1997, 18:05 · from urth-v0001.mbox · original

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From: Derek Bell <dbell at maths.tcd.ie>
Subject: Re: (urth) Apu's Eclipse
Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 19:05:35 +0100
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[Posted from URTH, a mailing list about Gene Wolfe's New Sun and other work=
s]

In message <199705182204.PAA13202 at lists1.best.com>, m.driussi at genie.com wri=
tes:
>[Posted from URTH, a mailing list about Gene Wolfe's New Sun and other wor=
ks]
>cehphalothorax,
>
>I think your number two is closer.  But by "hierodule's ship" you
>seem to be referring only to the flying saucer timecraft first seen
>hovering over the tower of Baldanders.  My hunch is that it is the
>other ship that features so prominently at the beginning of URTH.
>
>=3Dmantis=3D

	I'd assumed it was that vessel too - the stars that are wrong
for the season are wrong because they are normally drowned in the
glare of the Sun - they wouldn't be visible for another few months in
the future or past, except during eclipses.

	Tercel - how did you guess astronomy is one of my interests?
:)

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