The idea of a conflict between the evolutionary impulse and the static impulse in humanity is a recurring theme of Gordon Dickson's stuff, although the former always wins.
This is also true of some of the stuff I like by Greg Bear, Eternity and Eon... Big tensions between people who are essentialist about what makes humans, human, and other people who believe in stretching the boundries as far as possible (such as strange physical configurations, adaptations for special worlds, etc). The most amusing element of this, for me, is the name that Bear gives the essentialists: Naderites, religious followers of The Good Man Nader.
I'm not familiar with Gordon Dickson; I'll try looking him up, thanks.
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Date: Tuesday, 24 May 2005 01:47 am (UTC)This is also true of some of the stuff I like by Greg Bear, Eternity and Eon... Big tensions between people who are essentialist about what makes humans, human, and other people who believe in stretching the boundries as far as possible (such as strange physical configurations, adaptations for special worlds, etc). The most amusing element of this, for me, is the name that Bear gives the essentialists: Naderites, religious followers of The Good Man Nader.
I'm not familiar with Gordon Dickson; I'll try looking him up, thanks.