At 11:28 PM 5/14/01 -0000 Alberto Monteiro wrote:
>Did you believe Leie was *really* dead? :-)
I honestly don't remember..... I first read the book when it first came out
in paperback... which places me at about 15 at the time. But as Chris
Carter (all he does is catch touchdowns! ;-) says: "No one ever really dies
on the X-Files."
>>Perhaps in the intervening years, Stratos experienced a religious
>>revolution of some sorts? Perhaps a revolution in the science of
>>Christianity revolutionizing Judaism?
>>
>Uh?
That should be *sense*, not *science.* Make sense now?
>>-There were no men among the Founders. Also, the Founders apparently left
>>no descendants. Everyone on Stratos today is apparently descended from a
>>group of humans that were genetically engineered in laboratories over
>>several generations.
>>
>This seems unlikely. You can't have "multiple lab-designed generations before
>Great Changes were complete" without _someone_ directing those changes.
>Or could Man have conquered death before coming to Stratos?
I have suggested in earlier synopses that Brin hints that Earthlings have
achieved in "immortality", at least in a Kim Stanley Robinson sense of it.
JDG
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