I just read an article in Discover magazine by John Horgan entitled The Final Frontier. The end of it discusses the underlying principle of my book Darwin's Orphans: how can we move away from an acceptance of armed conflict as a society? Most of his article takes on very specific scientific questions but I was pleased to read him asking the very same question that fuels my curiosity.
We waste a lot of money and energy blowing each other up -- the lunacy of it makes good fodder for fictional musings. So, it was an easy subject to pick as the backdrop to my story. However, reading a serious scientific author posing the same question was very reassuring. More authors should challenge how we can move ahead as human beings and escape the atavistic tendency we have to go to blows whenever we have issues to resolve.
Thoughts?
Monday, October 23, 2006
Food for future thought
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After Vietnam, we thought we wouldn't have wars anymore. What naive children we were!
Nice job on the book.
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