On Fri, 02 May 2008 20:01:50 +0000, Wayne Throop wrote:
> Childhood's end is sort of an "uplift" scenario
"Sort of" is right.
It's, been, a, _long_, _long_, time, but didn't all the "old humans" get
exterminated at the end, in some sorta psychically-kindled nuclear
holocaust?
That hardly seemed uplifting or any testimony to the powers or morals of
the "Overmind" crowd to me (I guess the "Overmind" was a Nietzschean,
huh?).
I prefer Delaney's (admittedly a bit baffling) disposing of us in _The
Einstein Intersection_; at least it sounds like we wandered off on our own
(the quote is slightly modified):
"At the point of intersection, humanity was able to reach the limits of
the known universe, with ****ps and projection forces that are still
available to anyone who wants to use them--and when the line of Goedel's
law eagled over Einstein's, its shadow fell on a deserted Earth. The
humans had gone somewhere else, to no world in this continuum. We came,
took their bodies, their souls--both husks abandoned here for any
wanderer's taking. The cities, once bustling centers of interstellar
commerce, were crumbled to the sands you see today. The City we crossed
is perhaps thirty thousand years old. The sun has captured two more
planets since the Old People began here."
Still better is all the evolved types going off and leaving us feebs
alone.
Make us a preserve or park or something.
(BTW, the "aliens as devil(s)"-- in appearance, anyway-- was used much
much earlier by John Campbell in _The Mightiest Machine_, where of course
it was ample justification for "instinctive" extermination of the *****
Bad Guys by the Good Guys.)
--
I smell BREAKFAST!
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