# Digest urth.v030.n061 *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 23 Jan 2001* > 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. --- ### David Duffy *23 Jan 2001, 23:36* > Rostrum wrote: > Reading "A Story," I got the impression that the field was hiding St. Anne > from an already-settled-by-humans St. Croix, not shielding the whole > system from Earth. In the story, the humans show up almost instantly > after Shadowchild terminates the song (which seems odd... I think we're in the wrong worldview here. The song is magical, so its effects break down immediately from the point of view of a pre-Contact narrator, no matter how acausal that appears to science fiction critics ;) I would have thought that any shielding effects on foreigners would be psychic in nature...their own perception would be that they just hadn't got around to colonizing St Anne yet. | David Duffy. ,-_|\ | email: davidD at qimr.edu.au ph: INT+61+7+3362-0217 fax: -0101 / * | Epidemiology Unit, The Queensland Institute of Medical Research \_,-._/ | 300 Herston Rd, Brisbane, Queensland 4029, Australia v ---