What is _Urth of the New Sun_ about?

Michael S. Schiffer · 30 Dec 2003, 19:26 · from rec.arts.sf.written.2003.mbox

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From: "Michael S. Schiffer" <mschiffe at condor.depaul.edu>
Subject: Re: What is _Urth of the New Sun_ about?
Date: 30 Dec 2003 19:26:38 GMT
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>...
> Back to the original subject....That in turn reminds me how that
> in 'The book of the new sun' Severian would always refer to the
> "Great jungles of the north" or something similiar....did Wolfe
> ever give a scientific explanation for this reversal of the
> Urth's environmental make-up or was it something I missed? 

Severian lived in the Southern Hemisphere.  (South America, 
specifically, from clues in the text that I don't currently 
remember.)

Mike

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Michael S. Schiffer, LHN, FCS

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