From: "Jim Henley" <jhenley@nas-corp.com>
Subject: RE: (whorl) Revealed at Last! What (Would Have) Killed the Inhumi	!
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 08:42:35 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Levitan [mailto:josh_levitan@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 7:52 PM
>
> I have a feeling that Wolfe's given us enough info to figure
> out what the
> secret is currently.  It reminds me of that Borges story,
> "The Mystery of
> The Phoenix(?)" (something like that) in Ficciones, where he
> talks around
> the secret rite of the cult of the Phoenix and supposedly
> gives enough info
> to figure out what the rite is (although I've always been too
> dense to
> figure it out).

Well, I haven't figured it out yet either, so if anyone wants to do a
"Borges spoiler," I'm all for it.

More on the cold-blooded inhumi in another message. Meanwhile,

> The Venus thing is an interesting guess.  Perhaps, through
> the relativistic
> effects of vast interstellar travel over the three hundred
> years or so the
> ship was in transit (if I'm remembering correctly), it did
> manage to do a
> boomerang/Planet of the Apes deal and head back to Urth after
> the new sun
> arrived, encountering a flooded Urth (which fits with New
> Sun) and a green
> Venus.  However, what happened to the remaining seven planets?

Ah. They're still there? I say this because the little glossary at the
beginning of the book specifically refers to Blue as "the better of the
_habitable_ planets of the Short Sun system" and Green as "the worse of the
_habitable_ planets." My emphasis, but the word appears in each entry,
strongly suggesting that the SS system includes _inhabitable_ planets as
well.

The one I'm left wondering about is Mars/Verdanthi. Too far away to be
noticed? No longer habitable? Kicked into too eccentric an orbit by the
passing of the New Sun?

Or are Blue and Green not Ushas and Skuld after all?

Best,


Jim


> Josh, who hasn't thought of a Vironese name yet...  Suggestions?
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