Re: MacLeod's Cassini Division

From: KPJ (kpj@sics.se)
Date: Tue Oct 03 2000 - 05:37:20 MDT


It appears as if CountZero <count_zero@bigfoot.com> wrote
about MacLeod's Cassini Division:
|
|I was wondering if anyone else had run into this book.
|When I read it I found it to be somewhat disturbing (I guess I don't like to
|have my beliefs(tm) attacked either), the thing that struck me most was the
|combination of the assumed superiority of socialism and the 'True Knowledge'
|which seems to translate as 'If I have the power to do something it's OK to do
|it'.

MacLeod seem to excel in using different political views in each of his books.
You might wish to read the ``The Stone Canal'' instead, if the Socialism in
the ``Cassini Division'' disturbs you.



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