On Fri, 02 May 2008 19:44:30 -0300, AJ wrote:
> "Wayne Throop" <throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:1209758510@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> :: Hm. "This Immortal"? Or maybe the Jade D'arcy series? How about
>> :: Childhood's End? Ah well, I suppose there are (different)
mismatched
>> :: elements in each of those.
>>
>> : ilya2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> :
>> : "Childhood's End" (before the Breakthrough) is pretty close to what I
>> : had in mind -- although humans are more im****tant to Overlords than
>> : what I was thinking of. I know nothing about the other two.
>>
>> Childhood's end is sort of an "uplift" scenario, so maybe one could
>> consider Brin's books in the Upliftiverse are an instance.
>>
>> Zelazny's "This Immortal", the Vegans (the star, not the dietary
>> restriction) encounter earth in dire straits after a nuclear war, and
>> help save the remnants of humanity as a... well, humanitarian gesture.
>> The mismatched element there being that the vegan/human relation****p
>> isn't really master/pet. Plus they don't exactly... take over earth,
>> though with their economic influence they might just as well have.
>>
>> Oh, and "master" reminds me: "Farewell to the Master". More mismatches,
>> but after all, "*I* am the master." says Gnut. But I digress...
>>
>> In the Jade D'arcy series, interstellar travel is managed by a
>> mysterious extradimentional entity who provides ****tals. This alien is
>> known for being quite cryptic, but it's fairly clear he considers most
>> of the races he's providing ****tals for as pets... or maybe garden
>> plants.
>>
>> Hm. Wasn't there a scene where Trance Gemini prunes a bonsai tree in
>> an echo of what had just happened to humans or nietzscheans or
>> somebody?
>> I recall that at the time I was reminded of the Jade D'arcy entity, who
>> had made some similar comment about "pruning back" one of the races
>> that had been using the ****tals.
>
> With Trance Gemeni she was pruning back whole realities not just
> individuals.
In Joanna Russ' wunnerful _And Chaos Died_, the "superhumans" zipped us
all up and popped us into Limbo until they could fix us all, one at a time
. . . .
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