Re: Techné

From: Andrew Clough (aclough@mit.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 26 2002 - 19:31:12 MST


At 08:13 PM 2/26/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>It's no wonder I've such hostility for the way Brin seems to celebrate
>in his uplift series about the downward path to redemption.

My impression while reading the books was that Brin wasn't all that
sympathetic to the "downward path" himself. Consistently in his Uplift
books the good guys have been believers in progress, confronted with a
stratified galactic society. He comes down more firmly and explicitly
against this attitude in "Glory Season," an excellent book.



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