> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On > Behalf Of Damon > Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 9:30 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Axis of Evil? Bah! Nuke Switzerland! > > > >Not sure if you're being tongue-in-cheek, but I was referring to the > >war referenced in _Earth_ - sorry for getting On-Topic, I know it's > >not something we do often on this list.... > > Actually I WASN'T being tongue-in-cheek but serious. I haven't read Earth > yet (no copies locally and there have been other books that have caught my > eye...) > > Damon.
Some background: The Helvetian war was supposed to be the final world war, fought in Switzerland against the banking syndicates by an international army who came looking for their monies being stored in numbered Swiss accounts. :) Earth starts a generation after the war has ended. In the afterward at the end of Earth Dr. Brin discusses his reasoning for introducing it. Interesting. :) Jon "We need feedback from outside ourselves. Life consists of interacting pieces, free to jiggle and rearrange themselves. That's how you make a working system, like an organism, or a culture, or a biosphere. Or a mind." ~David Brin~ 'Earth' _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
