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At 04:43 PM 1/30/98 -0500, you wrote:
Woah, Gene Wolfe himself has said that there are only 2 chiliads between our present time here inA.D. 1998, and Severian's time. (I think it is in the People interview).
I don't remember Wolfe mentioning this in the People interview at all!
Anyway, ignoring all the mountain-carving and such, this book takes place when the sun is starting to lose its energy. I'm not an astrophysicist but I know that such an event is literally millions of years in our future.
This is one of the things about these books that I found so immediately fascinating and I'd hate to give it up. (I love post-apocalypse stories and TBOTNS is a post-post-post-post-etc-apocalypse story)
-Dave