The arrival of the first "Man" after three hundred years is a Messianic event:
"'But I am a man!' shouted Davis.
"A groan went through the crowd. Somebody screamed."
-CHAPTER V, p. 33.
How will the powers that be, the Doctors who control the cloning machine, respond? How do we expect them to?
Davis tells the Doctors' legate that:
he has come alone;
others will come only if he returns home to tell them;
the allied towns warriors have surrounded his spaceship;
but only he can enter it;
he is unarmed.
How will any self-preserving power elite respond to that?
"Her voice rang out:
"'This is no Man, it's a Monster. Kill it!'"
-CHAPTER XIV, p. 107.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Poor Davis Bertram! It's been an endless series of humiliations and fiascoes for him on this planet! And Davis should have said as little as possible, and hinted other Men would soon be coming. That might have made the Doctors more cautious.
NOT surprised by how the Doctors reacted to the coming of a Man. Davis was a threat to their monopoly on power. On the other hand, the Doctors MIGHT have welcomed the coming of Davis and other men. It was dangerously precarious to depend on artificial cloning for reproduction. Everybody would have died within a couple of generations if the parthenogenesis machine failed.
Ad astra! Sean
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