At 09:46 AM 5/16/01 -0500, Steve Sloan wrote:
>They *left* no descendants, meaning there aren't any around by
>the time the novel starts. I got the impression that the Founders
>reproduced themselves (probably using stored sperm, since there
>were no men) for enough generations to succeed at the genetic
>engineering. When they succeeded, that last generation quit
>having their own kids, and lived out the rest of their lives
>raising and teaching the first generation of Stratoins.
This is an interesting point...... I think that the number of clans that
are "descended" from the Founders themselves are most conspicious by their
absence. If there *were* a Clan of Lysos, I think we would know about it.
Indeed, it seems that the Clan system is remarkable in that it has not
produced some kind of monarchy.
JDG
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