Re: Tin Man Spoilers

Sen**** wrote:

>         urban@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Michael Urban) ::
> > Tin Man's world is a singularly joyless place - one that
> > is also curiously devoid of any signs of population.
>
> It's ben done before.  The dark steampunk style made me
> think of Oz as ****trayed in Tad Williams' _Otherland_ series.
>
> > realm whose inhabitants call it the Outer Zone.
>
> Which annoyed me, since not once did it bother to say what the zone
> was outer *to*.  If they're the Outer Zone, where and what is the
> Inner Zone?  And very probably, where and what is the Center?
> It was a gnawing gap, like a whole show repeatedly referring to
> what Rade said about this, or would think about that, and never
> bothering to make clear what the never-appearing character's
> relation was to anyone.

I assumed that Earth is the Inner Zone.