The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge
“I think he was referring to the parts of the story that had a moral for the times. I didn’t have any bright ideas along those lines—but I did think that other stories might be possible in the same future.
I had enjoyed Chad Oliver’s stories and I thought it would be fun to imagine what social science might look like coming out of an entirely different milieu. Modern anthropologists seem full of cultural relativism and self-conscious tolerance. Would it be possible to have a story set in some wi...der context, with an anthropology based on alien motives? I wanted a culture that was technologically superior to ours, workable, and yet so painfully different that accepting it would be hard even for open-minded people with our outlook.
So what would be sufficiently alien? Ever since high school, I’ve been fascinated with the notion of anarchy. Every anarchical scheme has some set of assumptions for why the participants will cooperate. (You can usually spot the assumption in the names: anarcho-communism, anarcho-capitalism … ) There’s a fundamental problem all such plans must face: how to prevent the formation of power groups large enough to in fact be the government.MoreLess
I had enjoyed Chad Oliver’s stories and I thought it would be fun to imagine what social science might look like coming out of an entirely different milieu. Modern anthropologists seem full of cultural relativism and self-conscious tolerance. Would it be possible to have a story set in some wi...der context, with an anthropology based on alien motives? I wanted a culture that was technologically superior to ours, workable, and yet so painfully different that accepting it would be hard even for open-minded people with our outlook.
So what would be sufficiently alien? Ever since high school, I’ve been fascinated with the notion of anarchy. Every anarchical scheme has some set of assumptions for why the participants will cooperate. (You can usually spot the assumption in the names: anarcho-communism, anarcho-capitalism … ) There’s a fundamental problem all such plans must face: how to prevent the formation of power groups large enough to in fact be the government.MoreLess
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