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On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 10:07 AM, William Taylor <medieva...@aol.com> wrote: > > Well, since I have joined this mailing list I can ask > some questions that I've wondered about. I haven't > read Heaven's Reach in a while, but I don't remember > the book answering these questions. Maybe some list > members might know. > > > > Spoiler warning to anyone who hasn't read Heaven's > Reach!! > > > > > > > > 1. When Gillian traded things with Uriel, did she take > any rewqs? They'd be very valuable both for Earthclan > and for that colony Alvin and Huck moved to. > > > > You ask a` question that would most likely be answered > > by our good Dr. Brin with, "Of course they did--just > > as soon as I write in the need for them in a later story." > > > > It ain't always completely thought out beforehand. > > Authors do get surprised by their own future plot twists. > > > > And that's > > Alvin, Mudfoot, and Huck on Harathrurptra. > > (Correct spelling anyone?) > > Mudfoot can become VERY important if Harathrumta (Sp?) > > has Rousit. > > Does anybody remember the Rousit? > > Contacting Aliens didn't. > > (The above is subject, of course, to Dr. Brin actually > > making the Rousit clients of the Hoon. It wasn't that > > clear in Heaven's Reach.) > > > > 2. Did we ever find out why Gillian wanted a herd of > Glavers? > > They speak to hydrogen breathers, IIRC. > > > > I doubt they're legally available for uplift > yet, (RE-Uplift, as they're on the downward slope.) > > but Contacting Aliens does say they haven't been > spotted (in the other Galaxy 2) in 2000 years. Did she > figure they might be the last of their kind, and want > to prevent the Jophur from killing them all? (It > would also have made it possible for Dwer to take a > few back to Jijo, but I doubt David Brin would make > things so narratively "easy" for Jijo.) > > 3. When Streaker and Polkjhy exchanged people and > chunks of hull, did Lark and Ling give any of the red > rings to Gillian? Those things are a potent biological > weapon against Jophur, even if used only as a > defensive measure. > > And Alvin could use the bio-life preservers in > > his sailing business. > > > 4. Lark saw an Urs on Polkjhy, stuck in an air bubble. > Why would any Urs accept such a watery/confined fate? > > Better than having some er pop the bubble? > > > She'll be stuck in that little bubble for the rest of > her life. Why didn't she go onto the Streaker while > all those Dolphins were going onto Polkjhy? > > > > ~A new person without a screen-name > _______________________________________________http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com > > > > Bluehost? > > OK, any name but Smurfette. > > > _______________________________________________ > http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com > > >
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