Ben’s Comments (group member since May 02, 2007)

Ben’s comments from the Hipinion group.

I was also working under the assumption that the mountains in the third book are the Andes.

The moment when you realize that in Severian's world people think of "mountains" as Mt. Rushmore-style statues and have probably never seen an un-carved mountain = pretty fucked up.

Well, he also calls the area surrounding Nessus the "pampas," which is a term that specifically refers to the grassy South American plains, and particularly to the area around Buenos Aires.

As far as St. Anne & St. Croix existing in the Sun universe, the only thing I can think is that they are Blue & Green, and that the inhumi from Short Sun are the descendents of the shapeshifting aborigines from Fifth Head. Hence there being ruins on the planets before the Long Sun colonists get there, etc, and hence the ship's originator choosing them as its destination.

I think it's more likely, though, that Wolfe is just reusing themes.

Well, okay... what do you feel like you've missed out on?

I got my copy at the library.

I just don't know if I can get it read in two weeks.

ok.

we taking a month?

you think that's better?

Sure. Bump that hpn thread, too.

Child of God

Man, good choices. I'm going to have to think about this.

Do it!

Rebecca claims she'll have a list for voting purposes shortly.

Well, time's up on this one. Looks like I failed miserably to generate discussion. w00t.

Bec, you got a list ready for voting?

That's a very good idea.

I'm going to have another look at Medusa over the course of the week and hopefully post a few questions. (And maybe an answer to Andrew.)

Definitely going to have to re-read. And do some research.

Jesus, what an ass-weird book this was.

Discuss The Medusa Frequency here.

You can also discuss Heart of a Dog if you like. I, for one, am reading both of them since they're both only ~120pp. (Just finished Heart of a Dog.)

Fairly certain Bec's up next, and not just because of that time we did it (on a mountaintop).

The problem of figuring out who joined when is going to get a lot harder once we get past the first few people, though.

Perhaps we should switch to a lottery system? Chosen at random among those who participated in the previous discussion?

Discussion closes on Friday, July 13th.

See my post in the thread on the board.

I didn't delete any posts here or anything, though. Maybe you're just remembering your post there?