Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 08:47:56 -0500
From: James Jordan 
Subject: Re: (urth) A Price on my Head (was: Wash Post article)

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> > Perhaps I should articulate a challenge, to
> > those who don't think 5HC is set in Briah: what
> > actually disqualifies my assumption? Why do you say so
> > emphatically that 5HC doesn't fit?
>
>I'm not sure which way Occam's razor cuts.  Should one assume that an
>author's works are all set in the same universe unless there is evidence
>otherwise ("Universes should not be multiplied unnecessarily"), or does
>the assumption lie in the other direction ("Connections should not be
>assumed unnecessarily")?
>
>Would you have assumed the Long Sun books were set in Briah if Wolfe
>hadn't made the Pas-Typhon connection?
>
>I'm much more inclined to see a thematic connection (double planets, shape
>shifters, colonization, etc.) and I think that's sufficient reason to
>argue that 5HC is a companion work to the Sun books.

OTOH, if Urth is really Old Earth, then Marc's point about no memory at the 
dawn of time and full memory at the end of time hints that the Soldier 
books are also in the same universe!
         Anyway, they're all in Wolfe's universe!


Nutria


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> Perhaps I should articulate a
challenge, to

> those who don’t think 5HC is set in Briah: what

> actually disqualifies my assumption? Why do you say so

> emphatically that 5HC doesn’t fit? 


I'm not sure which way Occam's razor cuts.  Should one assume that
an

author's works are all set in the same universe unless there is
evidence

otherwise ("Universes should not be multiplied unnecessarily"),
or does

the assumption lie in the other direction ("Connections should not
be

assumed unnecessarily")?


Would you have assumed the Long Sun books were set in Briah if 
Wolfe

hadn't made the Pas-Typhon connection?


I'm much more inclined to see a thematic connection (double planets,
shape

shifters, colonization, etc.) and I think that's sufficient reason
to

argue that 5HC is a companion work to the Sun
books.


OTOH, if Urth is really Old Earth, then Marc's point about no memory at
the dawn of time and full memory at the end of time hints that the
Soldier books are also in the same universe!

        Anyway,
they're all in Wolfe's universe!




Nutria



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