Thursday, 25 January 2024

Five Teams

Nicholas van Rijn's first trade pioneer crew was a human being, a Wodenite and a Cynthian.

One Terran Meteor crew in The People Of The Wind was two human beings and a Cynthian.

The new team in The Game Of Empire is a human being, a Wodenite and a Tigery.

A Ranger team in "Starfog," is one human being and his conscious ship-computer.

A Coordination Service crew in "The Pirate," in Poul Anderson's Psychotechnic History, is one human being and a Reardonite.

Lessons (if any):

each of these teams has at least one human being;

it is good to mix species in teams in sf stories;

fictional species can be re-deployed to good effect.  

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

That makes sense to me, team members of different species will, hopefully, complement/supplement each other, adding strengths and correcting weaknesses.

But I still remain skeptical of true AIs being likely!

Ad astra! Sean