A Good Society

John Smith · 11 Jul 2008, 15:17 · from 2008-July.txt.gz

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From: jsmith2627 at att.net (John Smith)
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:17:24 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) A Good Society
Message-ID: <507061.55682.qm at web83701.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>

Can any one think of a Wolfe novel or story in which
he portrays a good society?   

When I re-read  The Fifth Head of Cerberus, I realized
that on the first reading I had missed how brutal and
nasty the planet of Sainte. Croix is.  Urth and the
Whorl are also terrible places.    Stories like The
Death of Dr. Island have a cruel or indifferent
society in the background.

Wolfe doesn't seem to write about utopias.   But does
he ever show even a decent world?

Jack

Best wishes,

Jack

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