If I remember right, the Holnists are a gang of militarist uebermenschen
who plan to make themselves kings over the inferior tree-hugging rabble.
> Anyway, as I told Mr. Brin, I personally find his idea repulsive but that's
> irrelevant because it's not going to happen. Brin's world is inherently
> unstable, so discussing its merits is like talking about if it would be fun
> to live in a world where the second law of thermodynamics worked backward.
Ha ha. For those who don't know, that is precisely the premise of
Brin's novel _The Practice Effect_, an early work which was fished out
of the trunk and published after _Startide Rising_ made him a star.
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