From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" 
Subject: RE: (urth) Summa contra Marcus
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 10:06:56 -0800

Jerry Friedman wrote...

> Stop it!  Polyploidy has nothing to do with extra limbs,
> as Marc has agreed.

Well, yeah. But it was (at the time) the only explanation that
had been offered. I have since offered a very silly retrovirus
-- one capable of having a nearly identical effect on elephants
and crocodilians, and possibly humans...

> Or by assuming the Short Sun books aren't in the
> Green Man's future any more than they're in Master
> Ash's.

I'm pretty sure that Wolfe has stated that Sev's bringing 
of the New Sun means that the Green Man's future is the
one that will happen.

--Blattid


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