Maybe the person who wrote the Outlanders novel hadn't read Pilgrimage to Hell...

Not bloody likely since I was that person.

In the original Omega Path manuscript it was explained that the Vorishin attending the inauguratiion was actually one of Colonel Thrush's bodies, resculpted to look like Vorishin.

That paragraph was deleted.

This is just another example of the fne copy-editing on part of GE...the same practice that had Ryan and Co. discussing "Lea" lines instead of "ley" lines, weapons specs being arbitrarily changed so the writer came off as an ignoramous and the city of Harappa being renamed "Hardpan."

I could provide many more examples, but you get the idea.

Thanks! I was wondering. Really answered a paradox.