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Writer's Block: Boldly going
Sep. 26th, 2010 05:17 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
I am really fascinated by the sentient "world" of John Varley's Gaia trilogy. I would absolutely love to party with the Titanides.
Titanides consider food and drink to be their highest art form, and they are all skilled in some handicraft and/or science. Oh, yeah, and Titanides are also quite musically talented, which means they can keep a beat in a drum circle (unlike so many humans at Eeyore's Birthday :P) so the music would be awesome, too. So: cooking, eating and drinking, dancing and singing and maybe titanide-back riding, crafting, being known and liked for who or what you are inside [or disliked for same]...pretty much my idea of a perfect life.
(yes, I'm aware that their entire society sounds like a Burning Man or Flipside kind of deal...only they are in a climate controlled, insect-free environment, and [more importantly] they don't have human problems like rape, murder, jealousy, etc. and they can basically look at a human and tell whether or not that person is sane, insane, dangerous, sociopathic, truthful, etc. So I'd feel much safer and happier partying like that with aliens than I think I would with my fellow humans.)
I am really fascinated by the sentient "world" of John Varley's Gaia trilogy. I would absolutely love to party with the Titanides.
Titanides consider food and drink to be their highest art form, and they are all skilled in some handicraft and/or science. Oh, yeah, and Titanides are also quite musically talented, which means they can keep a beat in a drum circle (unlike so many humans at Eeyore's Birthday :P) so the music would be awesome, too. So: cooking, eating and drinking, dancing and singing and maybe titanide-back riding, crafting, being known and liked for who or what you are inside [or disliked for same]...pretty much my idea of a perfect life.
(yes, I'm aware that their entire society sounds like a Burning Man or Flipside kind of deal...only they are in a climate controlled, insect-free environment, and [more importantly] they don't have human problems like rape, murder, jealousy, etc. and they can basically look at a human and tell whether or not that person is sane, insane, dangerous, sociopathic, truthful, etc. So I'd feel much safer and happier partying like that with aliens than I think I would with my fellow humans.)
