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From: Bobosmash at aol.com
Subject: (whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v010.n066
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 23:46:27 EST
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Greetings to all,
   Long time listener, first time caller. After reading the latest post. I=20
feel I need to reread OBW again, immediately.=20

  -- The Venus thing is an interesting guess.  Perhaps, through the=20
relativistic=20
effects of vast interstellar travel over the three hundred years or so the=20
ship was in transit (if I'm remembering correctly), it did manage to do a=20
boomerang/Planet of the Apes deal and head back to Urth after the new sun=20
arrived, encountering a flooded Urth (which fits with New Sun) and a green=20
Venus.  However, what happened to the remaining seven planets?--

    I like this idea. I like it a lot. I feel the lack of the rest of the=20
system is pretty insignificant. It's the far future. Many civilizations=20
(including Urth ( both terrestrial and extraterrestrial nature )) seem to=20
have the engineering skills to do away with those useless hunks of dead roc=
k.=20
No asteroid belt either. I would think that the biggest factor against a=20
pretty reasonable sounding guess is the fact that Gene Wolfe is never that=20
easy.=20

   After I finish OBW again, I'l try to contribute something a little more=20
constructive to this very helpful tome.=20

Pete Clark=20

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