# Blish's CASE OF CONSCIENCE and Urth *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 01 Jun 1999* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Michael Andre-Driussi *01 Jun 1999, 15:17* In the past on this list there have been periodic reference to Blish's book, by three or four people hereabouts. Well I just read it, myself, and I liked it a lot more than the BLACK EASTER books, with which it shares obvious similaries (including, IMHO, a weak ending--but now I'm getting ahead of myself). So I would like people to take this opportunity to chat about COC, compare and contrast with the Urth Cycle. I know that at least a few of you have read it, and most likely many more have, since it is an award winning (Hugo, I believe?) classic. >> SPOILER ALERT<< Because here is a clear and obvious case of Roman Catholic sf; there is a certain similarity between the Jesuit hero and Severian, in that both must destroy a world; etc. =mantis= ---