Thread 24861471

>Hmmm, I need a name for these people based on China
>I've got it--Ascians! Eugene, you old fox, you've done it again.

based pringles man

I don't get it.

>>24862057
It's okay, Eugene. Go back to bed.

>>24861471 (OP)
I thought Ascians were north American and tribal injuns

>>24862063
Yeah but they're Maoist

>>24862063
And where do you think they came from anon?

>>24862093
The Book of the New Sun

>>24862093
According to the book they come from the north

>>24862095
People cant come out of books, its not like books can give birth...I mean books don't have reproductive organs or vaginas...at best you can scoop out a hole out of the pages

>>24862149
>books don't have reproductive organs or vaginas
There are at least three well pronounced Kants on my bookshelf.

>>24862104
and where is the bering strait located, anon?

>>24862377
Underneath the risen ocean levels
On the opposite side of the world from Peru
Previously connected 2 countries that weren't China

>>24862377
In the Pacific

>>24862395
hmm

>>24862417
And this proves they aren't from North America how? Do you have legitimate brain damage?

>i need a name for these characters in my book based on barbaric people from the east of europe... hmmm, what shall i name them?
>orcs! perfect!
how did tolkien do it?

>>24862063
Protip: they're not.

>>24862377
In Wolfe's Urth? Nowhere.
Continental drift happens. Wolfe's future is set billions of years from now, and the continents will be unrecognisable by then.
Some retards conclude TBotNS is set in South America, but fail to notice that the mountains are in the east and the big river runs west.
It's all because Wolfe uses words like "alcalde," "capybara," "llanero" etc. By his own admission in the appendices, these words are meant to be "suggestive rather than definitive."

>>24862087
It's the result of far future Americans being brainrotted to the point where they can only speak in memes.

>>24863537
The sun is dying because of the black seed, it's probably at most a couple million years in the future

>>24863580
It's so far in the future the picture of the guy on the moon is probably the only remnant of America's existence. There are new races. Just look at how much the races have moved about the map and changed in the brief history we know of. The borders and countries have changed all over the place in just the last few centuries.

>>24861471 (OP)
>I need a name for these people based on China
CHINKS

>>24863824
Gooks

>>24863580
Worse than memes. It's like corporate training video speak.

>>24863537
get a load of this retard.

>Wolfe: The main research was on Byzantium and the Byzantine Empire, which was a stagnant political entity that had outlived its time in much the same way that the Urth of the Commonwealth had. One of the things that bothered me about the reviews I got on The Book of the New Sun was how often they compared my world with that of Medieval Europe. Insofar as I was trying to create any kind of parallels with an actual historical period here on Earth—and obviously I wasn't aiming at developing an exact analogy—I was thinking of Byzantium. Incidentally, I also got into trouble with some reviewers over my presentation of the Ascians, who were my equivalent of the Turks. If you read the book carefully, it's clear that the action is taking place in South America and that the invading Ascians are actually North Americans. What I didn't anticipate was that nine tenths of my readers and reviewers would look at the word "Ascian" and say, "Oh, these guys are Asians!" This confusion got me accused of being an anti Asian racist—which I'm not. Actually, the word "ascian" literally means "people without shadows." It was a word used in the Classical world for people who lived near the Equator, where the Sun is dead overhead at noon and thus produces no shadow. I felt it would be an interesting touch to show that the ordinary man in the street in the Southern Hemisphere wasn't even conscious that their attackers are coming down from the Northern Hemisphere (they aren't even aware that there is another hemisphere).
>https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/interviews/wolfe46interview.htm

>>24863827
Those are Koreans

>>24864961
Once again,
>the mountains are in the east and the big river runs west
Sounds like the retard ain't me, bucko.