On Blue's Waters [Wolfe self-reference?][no actual spoilers]

Alastair Reynolds · 25 Sep 1999, 10:00 · from whorl-v0010.mbox · original

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From: Alastair Reynolds <areynold at estsa2.estec.esa.nl>
Subject: Re: (whorl) On Blue's Waters [Wolfe self-reference?][no actual spoilers]
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 12:00:25 +0200 (MET DST)
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>=20
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> Horn runs through other versions of Silk's story (Horn's is _The Book of =
the
> Long Sun_, commonly known as _The Book of Silk_).  One he mentions that he
> hasn't read was written by a man in the city of Urbasecundus, in English =
"Second
> City."  Now, what large city with that sobriquet does Wolfe live near?
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> (I've read two chapters and already have several mysteries to think about=
, and
> at least one from tBotLS elucidated -- more on that later.)
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>      --Dave Lebling
>      (aka vizcacha)
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So where does GW live? Is it Chicago?

Funnily enough, (because I only noticed it yesterday) in the Fifth Head
of Cerberus, he mentions a book called Monday or Tuesday, leaning against
a book on the assassination of Trotsky. Since the Trotsky book must have
been written by Trotsky's bodyguard, Bernard "Limbo" Wolfe, I presume=20
we're meant to conclude that the other book, if they're filed
alphabetically, is by GW...

Al=20

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