Subject: RE: (urth) 1000 years to Typhon
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 13:50:11 -0700
From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" 

> However, this is my whole point - a whole lot of time does=20
> not have to have  passed after the flooding of Urth for things
> to have changed enough. Hybridization creates mutant monsters
> in as little as one generation=20

Marc, this is really reaching.

A generation might, conceivably, be enough time for the appearance
of some double-limbed monsters. No argument there.

But a generation isn't -- a thousand years aren't -- enough time
for the replacement of, apparently, every major life form on the
planet with a double-limbed version, plus the rise and fall of a
civilization of double-limbed ... whatever the Vanished People are.
It just won't wash. Any theory that identifies the Bleen system
with the Urth system has to allow a very very VERY long time for
it to reach the condition it's in at the time of the Short Sun
books.

--Blattid


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