May 2014 Wolfe interview in _Technology Review_

Gerry Quinn · 06 Aug 2014, 12:21 · from 2014-August.txt.gz

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From: gerry at bindweed.com (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 13:21:44 +0100
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On 05/08/2014 22:58, entonio at gmail.com wrote:
> It's been a long time since I've read the book, but I don't recall thinking of the Shadow Children as human at all. I'm not saying that I rejected the idea of their being human, I'm saying that when I read the book it didn't register on me that they were or might be human. Was their description pictorial? Why are they assumed to be human?

They - in the shape of the Old Wise One talking to Sandwalker - tell us 
the story of how Sandwalker's people were a race of shape-changers who 
imitated the original human explorers.  The latter discovered a drug 
that gave them telepathic powers which they used to keep other humans 
away, as they themselves devolved into the Shadow Children.  The OWO 
specifically refers to humans as "my race".

- Gerry Quinn

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