Re: A vision

From: Phil Osborn (philosborn2001@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jul 15 2003 - 20:15:23 MDT

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    Those who have so far missed the experience might, in
    this connection, want to pick up the truly delightful
    Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars series - Red Mars, Green
    Mars, Blue Mars - at least one of which got the Hugo
    Award (best sf novel of the year). The subtext of the
    colonization of Mars,* which forms the ongoing theme
    and background of this monumental work, spanning
    centuries and with dozens of fully-drawn fascinating
    characters you will remember twenty years later, is
    that very question of what the true, ultimate vision
    and purpose of life is.

    Summarizing: WE are the eyes, hands, mind of the
    universe. Only through us is it aware of itself.
    Only through our choices and values does it acquire
    meaning and purpose. WE have the responsibility to
    expand life and intelligence and ensure that it does
    not perish, and the universe become blind, deaf and
    useless. (In answer to a faction of colonists who
    oppose "terraforming.")

    *Hard science fans will truly enjoy Robinson's
    detailed techno- vision - still almost 100% on target
    a decade or so later, as well as his predictions of
    water underground, etc., all totally on target with
    current data.

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