Women have been isolated on an extra-solar planet for three hundred years.
"'But you have children!' said Davis feebly.
"'Oh, yes. By the grace of Father, the Doctors at His Ship can - I don't know any more. I've never been there.'"
-CHAPTER V, pp. 34-35.
Barbara is not an initiate yet. Davis thinks:
"A shipwreck three hundred years ago, and an incredible hoax played by some gang known as the Doctors..." (p. 35)
Does he think that there are men - real fathers - hidden inside this "Father's Ship"? Later, however, thinking about the Doctors, he reflects that:
"...they knew enough science to operate a parthogenesis machine."
-CHAPTER VIII, p. 59.
Well, if he knows about parthogenesis machines, then why did he postulate a hoax back in CHAPTER V?
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
To answer your question: probably because Davis Bertram thought it was much more likely for a colony ship to have SOME men, if only in the crew running the ship.
What Anderson had Davis thinking of parthenogenesis technology we would call cloning today.
Ad astra! Sean
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