From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Nicholas=20Gevers?= <vermoulian@yahoo.com>
Subject: (whorl) Twin planets
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 09:51:24 

Daniel, thanks for your remarks--in a nutshell, yes,
the Robinson books are eminently worth reading, the
Dante parallels could do with a lot of expansion (how
about it?), and the intertextuality with Le Guin's THE
DISPOSSESSED is compelling. A thought there: in a Le
Guin/Wolfe mapping, Anarres (attempt at utopia)=Blue,
and Urras (dystopia)=both Urth (old, over-exploited,
hopeless) and Green (like capitalist A-Io in THE
DISPOSSESSED, only a Darwinist Hell in place of a
Social Darwinist one.)

--Hurriedly, Nick Gevers.

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