Blue not urth.......? (IGJ spoilers)

james.kellar · 04 Aug 2000, 12:18 · from whorl-v0011.mbox · original

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From: james.kellar at quantel.com
Subject: Re: (whorl) Re: Blue not urth.......? (IGJ spoilers)
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 13:18:06 +0100
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I expect this has been remarked on before, but has anyone else noticed the =
references to 'green' and
'blue' in The Fifth Head of Cerberus?
I'm only halfway through it at the moment, but in the first section someone=
 (can't remember who)
describes Ste Anne as green, and in the second section (Dr Marsch's story) =
Ste Croix is referred as
being blue!
Presumably this is just a coincidence - and anyway, they can't be the same =
planets, can they - in
the first section Dr Marsch talks about the journey back to Earth taking 20=
 years of Newtonian and 6
months of subjective time...
The inhabitants of Ste Anne also appear to have quite a lot in common with =
the inhumi, don't they?
I have to keep reminding myself that, although I'm reading 5HOC last, it wa=
s actually written long
before the other books.
Apologies if this comments will sound silly in the light of future revelati=
ons in this book!

Still waiting for my copy of IGJ to come from amazon (I live in the UK) but=
 the order status page is
now saying "1 soon to be delivered", so it can't be long now!

regards to all

James

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