[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The Ballad of Lost C'mell by Cordwainer Smith.
> C'mell, being a cat human and a girlie-girl, wasn't > supposed to fall in love with a human.
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> Totally opposite from today's viewpoint. For Cordwainer > Smith, if you looked like a human, and thought like a > human, but did not have human genes, you could not be > treated as a human.
> If he wrote to be ironic, I think he won.
Even though a (an?) SF writer creates and sets stories in a fictional society, that doesn't necessarily mean that he *approves* of everything that society believes.
<<http://www.raingod.com/angus/Writing/Essays/Literary/Smith.html>>
-- Ronn! :)
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