Welcome Dr. Gevers

Hey everybody, look--it's Dr. Nick Gevers. <??> Author of that fine essay in "Nova Express." <applause, cheers> And he has just given away the major surprise of THE BOOK OF THE SHORT SUN, seven months before the first book will be published <g>! <!!> No, no, put down those pitchforks and torches--I'm only joking. <?!> Joking about the next series--I mean, I don't know anything about the next series, I certainly don't know as much as the publishers know. But what Nick Gevers writes seems quite likely to be true. The human "boatpeople" and the native-alien "bat people." Thoughts of interstellar colonization, with sinister effects, turns my mind toward the Hainish books of Le Guin: THE WORD FOR WORLD IS FOREST being a case where the humans are being very, very naughty; PLANET OF EXILE being an example where the human enclave is in danger of being wiped out by alien-native Mongol-types, and thus deserving of sympathy (sympathy for humans, that is). =mantis=