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   Robert Woodward to James Nicoll   
   Re: (Big Hair Big Guns) The Moon Goddess   
   17 Oct 25 10:23:42   
   
   From: robertaw@drizzle.com   
      
   In article <10crep7$17p$1@reader2.panix.com>,   
    jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:   
      
   > In article ,   
   > Robert Woodward   wrote:   
   > >In article <10cqpu4$3nl$1@reader2.panix.com>,   
   > > jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> The Moon Goddess and the Son by Donald Kingsbury   
   > >>   
   > >> The American orbital transfer station offers employment to Byron   
   > >> McDougall, a chance for Charlie Bond to search for an alternative   
   > >> to MAD, and for Diana Osborne, escape from her violently abusive   
   > >> father.   
   > >>   
   > >> https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/what-would-little-boys-do   
   > >   
   > >I have a vague recollection of reading somewhere that this is in the   
   > >same continuity as _Courtship Rite_. Also, IIRC, this replaces "The   
   > >Ghost Town" (which I mentioned recently) when events made that obsolete,   
   > >   
   > I guess it's not impossible for this to be in the same universe as   
   > Courtship Rite, but since the two are divided by a vast space of   
   > space and time, the connection would be rather academic.   
   >   
   > I thought Courtship Rite was in the same setting as Shipwright and   
   > the never-finished Finger Pointing Solward but I am not sure where   
   > I picked that up.   
      
   I think that is mentioned in the afterword of _Courtship Rite_ (at least   
   in the Timescape books edition).   
      
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