Whether to launch a crewed interstellar spaceship is debated by the senior Survivor, Hanno, and the ruling intellects:
the Engineer
the Psychologist
the Economist
the Astronomer
the Artist
the Sociologist
the Administrator
- who are human, electronic or both.
Hanno thinks:
"If only life and awareness weren't so seldom, so incidental or accidental." (p. 492)
That is one premise of this novel. In Poul Anderson's Technic History universe, intelligent species are as easily generated as snowflakes. That is one reason why alternative fictional futures are necessary - as is their occasional incorporation into multiverses.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
But even BOAT has intelligent life being discovered on hundreds of other worlds. The real problem was how slow STL interstellar travel is.
Ad astra! Sean
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