swestrup comments on The Finale of the Ultimate Meta Mega Crossover - Less Wrong

31 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 September 2009 05:21PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 September 2009 08:33:04PM 6 points [-]

The story is an alternate history of A Fire Upon the Deep, but it's a sequel to Permutation City - it's not an alternative to Egan's ending, but something that could have happened after Egan's ending took place as written.

Comment author: swestrup 23 September 2009 03:41:51AM 13 points [-]

Oh, I understood that. Except that your explanation of what happened at the end of Permutation City made sense whereas how that story actually ended did not. Hence I prefer your explanation of the ending of Permutation City to the one provided in the book.