"'You're so pale,' the woman said. 'Would you care for drink?'
"'Christ, yes!' [Lockridge] meant no blasphemy: not of that god." (p. 152)
He has seen the savagery of the Wardens' reign. They debase their pantheism by hunting and burning human beings.
Suddenly a novel with an exotic futuristic setting addresses basic social issues.
See:
There are too many people to serve the purposes of bureaucrats or aristocrats but not too many people to serves the purposes of people themselves! - who should be ends, not means. But we have discussed this issue in two previous posts.
Serious sf always returns to fundamental questions.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Being what we, all humans are, I absolutely expect some societies to be far more bad than not. Such as the human sacrifices and cannibalism of the Aztecs. Or the abominable religion of the Peacock Angel in Stirling's THE PESHAWAR LANCERS.
Ad astra! Sean
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