Just read Clute's OBW review <SPOILERS>

Kevin J. Maroney · 17 Aug 2000, 18:31 · from whorl-v0011.mbox · original

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From: "Kevin J. Maroney" <kmaroney at ungames.com>
Subject: Re: (whorl) Just read Clute's OBW review <SPOILERS>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 18:31:48
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At 05:10 PM 8/17/00 -0500, Endymion (*) wrote:
>The second shock was reading his opinion that OBW is happening at the same
>time as TBOTNS?  I had inferred from reading the whorl list that most were
>of the opinion that OBW was at least 1000 years later than TBOTNS?  Do any
>agree with Clute's timeframe estimates?

I thought that the common wisdom was that the Whorl left Urth about 1000
years before _Book of the New Sun_ (during the time of Typhon) and had
spent 1000 years in transit (though only 358 years passed on-board because
of time dilation). Someone here--Robert Borski, I think--pegged the scene
towards the end of _Green_ as taking place during the swimming scene in
chapter 1 of _Shadow of the Torturer_, and I suspect he's right.=20

*Must we assume that, with a name like that, Endymion is a monster?=20

--=20
Wombat, a.k.a. Kevin Maroney kmaroney at ungames.com
Kitchen Staff Supervisor, New York Review of Science Fiction
http://www.nyrsf.com

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