The Alori capture Trevelyan and the Peregrines and settle them on the planet, Loaluani, where:
torch trees shine at night;
the forest is a communications network;
it is safe to sleep outdoors or in hollow trees with naturally growing windows, curtains, carpets, water supply etc;
animals are tame but will avoid an area if hunted in it.
Solarians have a guilt culture, Nomads have a shame culture and the Alori have a modified fear culture. I suppose that the Erulani have an unmodified fear culture? The three cultures sound like stages: shame is socialized fear and guilt is internalized shame? The ultimate culture would be free from fear, shame or guilt: a spontaneous goodness culture?
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Kaor, Paul!
I would put down the rather implausibly schematic "look" to THE PEREGRINE to that book being one of Anderson's earliest novels, when he was still learning how to write. Later books were not so unconvincingly neat. We see that becoming the case with THE ENEMY STARS (1958), where different kinds of planets more plausibly "mesh" with one another.
Since I believe the human race is FALLEN, I don't believe any human society will be free of fear, shame, guilt, etc. And, even if you don't believe in a theological "fall," I think it's more realistic than not to expect such things to continue to exist than not.
Ad astra! Sean
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