Castaway

Nicholas Gevers · 10 Jan 2003, 09:09 · from urth-v0301.mbox · original

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Subject: (urth) Castaway
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 09:09:12 +0000 (GMT)
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SPOILER SPACE

Rich Horton re "Castaway":=20

"Do you think the world was actually Earth?  Or was
the castaway remembering lost Earth somehow?"

The world was Earth, I'm pretty sure--in a sense, Urth
post Ragnarok. I think your comparison with Tiptree is
well founded--the theme here is very much alienation
from Mother Earth, only this time with humanity
surviving, Earth dying. Interesting to consider who
the Castaway really is--the shipwreck victim, or the
narrator, and with the narrator, the entire human
species?

--Nick Gevers.

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