Chubby, brunette Eunice Kinnison sat in a rocker, reading the Sunday papers and listening to the radio. Her husband Ralph lay sprawled upon the davenport, smoking a cigarette and reading the current issue of EXTRAORDINARY STORIES against an unheard background of music. Mentally, he was far from Tellus, flitting in his super-dreadnaught through parsec after parsec of vacuous space. E.E. "Doc" Smith, Triplanetary, Chapter 5: "1941"
Given all the debate over this on the Urth Mailing List, by folks who are far more knowledgeable about Wolfe than I'll ever be...(long strings of messages "Is to!" "Is not!")...I think the jury is still out. I didn't look at the quote from Wolfe at TV Tropes, but if he said anything absolutely "definitive" it can't have been definitive enough to satisfy this debate!!!!
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Huh. I thought Urth WAS a far future earth. TV tropes says, no according to "Word of God" (that is, Wolfe himself)
Given all the debate over this on the Urth Mailing List, by folks who are far more knowledgeable about Wolfe than I'll ever be...(long strings of messages "Is to!" "Is not!")...I think the jury is still out. I didn't look at the quote from Wolfe at TV Tropes, but if he said anything absolutely "definitive" it can't have been definitive enough to satisfy this debate!!!!
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