-Poul Anderson, Genesis (New York, 2001), PART ONE, VII, p. 85.
"Life must be rare in the universe, hardly ever burgeoning into sentience, and the chance of a high technology vanishingly small."
-Starfarers, 19, p. 154.
By contrast:
"...a universe that produces sophonts as casually as it produces snowflakes."
-Poul Anderson, "Outpost of Empire" IN Anderson, Captain Flandry: Defender Of The Terran Empire (Riverdale, NY, 2010), pp. 1-72 AT p. 7.
Anderson covers every option and I think that the Genesis/Starfarers perspective is more plausible than the Flandry one.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Until we ever find out otherwise, I lean more to the middle view found in STARFARERS, intelligent life is MODERATELY rare, but not vanishingly so. And, as you said, Anderson examined every possibility.
Ad astra! Sean
I have a cold so there might not be any more posts today.
Kaor, Paul!
I am sorry about that. I hope you soon get over that cold. And a slow blogging day from you is still a lot faster than most blogs I've seen!
Ad astra! Sean
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