What is _Urth of the New Sun_ about?

Mike Ward · 30 Dec 2003, 20:34 · from rec.arts.sf.written.2003.mbox

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From: Mike Ward <m at d.w>
Subject: Re: What is _Urth of the New Sun_ about?
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 20:34:23 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? 

I think it was because BotNS was set so far in the future that the earth 
had just changed that much.

Mike

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