starexplorer wrote:

I consider myself to be merely a well-intended and good natured irritant here. I have no idea what’s going on in the Foreigner Universe, so I am merely inquiring and objecting to the logic of the responses. I have gotten it into my head, though I may be wrong, that there is active interest in Foreigner-AU connections, though for the life of me it seems like all the evidence is against it. This is more than adequately explained by Aja Jin’s what if-ing, and by the inherent interest in connections even when absent. I remember how fascinating it was to read that famous line in Cyteen about ETs on the other side.....

Anyway to ‘tac’s question, I’d say either put it here or in a new thread on AU/Foreigner speculations, as the kyo thread seems rather specific...

The tie-it-all-together thing is very seductive for fans and for authors later in their careers --- Asimov did it with Foundation and the Robot novels, in a quite clever way I think.  
 

Last edited by Aja Jin (5/29/2020 10:26 am)

joekc6nlx wrote:

well, let me throw a quick monkey wrench before we end it.
In the very first Morgaine novel, the introduction has an ancient inscription that talks about humans and the qhal, and the race that pre-dated the qhal.  Since the qhal moved around the universe using Gates, which they did not invent, but discovered, and used to excess until they created a time disaster, who knows where each of the Gates lead, is it strictly another time and location in the same universe, or does it go to alternate universes?  Morgaine professes not to know, either. 

Having just acquired the book "Four from the Witch World", including "Stormbirds" by CJC, maybe some of the qhal gates lead to Witchworld (which also has gates).  Yikes !

 

I agree Dave.  It would make a great story to tie those three storylines together.

Aja Jin wrote:

starexplorer wrote:

I consider myself to be merely a well-intended and good natured irritant here. I have no idea what’s going on in the Foreigner Universe, so I am merely inquiring and objecting to the logic of the responses. I have gotten it into my head, though I may be wrong, that there is active interest in Foreigner-AU connections, though for the life of me it seems like all the evidence is against it. This is more than adequately explained by Aja Jin’s what if-ing, and by the inherent interest in connections even when absent. I remember how fascinating it was to read that famous line in Cyteen about ETs on the other side.....

Anyway to ‘tac’s question, I’d say either put it here or in a new thread on AU/Foreigner speculations, as the kyo thread seems rather specific...

The tie-it-all-together thing is very seductive for fans and for authors later in their careers --- Asimov did it with Foundation and the Robot novels, in a quite clever way I think.  
 

Absolutely. Very seductive. And I remember getting a huge kick out of what Asimov did. So in that sense, why not have fun with this?

I have never been an advocate of the idea that the author is the final arbiter of her work. It belongs to the world now. Maybe she could be convinced by some of the arguments we can further flesh out here?

Just noting that my (used, but in otherwise acceptable condition) copy of the Company War game arrived late last week, and I've already teased out a couple snippets of information that weren't present in the CJ C essay it contains.  I've had a transcribed copy of the essay for some years now, and it is very useful for fleshing out the A/U universe background, but these particular tidbits were not in it.  I'm thinking now that the cost of acquiring the game was money well spent..