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I think that the Greensong running could be viewed as a variation of Jane's FTL travel. Consider, if the Greensong is viewed as "Information" awareness of the local area that is stored in the common awareness of native flora and fauna and the Doodlebug is viewed as a Philotic knot, then that knot can go out, link with the local web of info and allow one with awareness of the self to move Faster Then Light a short distance. Maybe just a few millimeters.
Then it just becomes a series of FTL jumps operating as the illusion of running.
I think Alvin should be able to sieze upon a location with his bug, scan himself, and then move there. At the least he should be able to move objects.
It seems obvious, if you postulate that both series are sharing a common set of postulates as far as physical laws.
Wouldn't it be cool if Alvin's crystal became the do-dad Nafai went through to don the cloak of the starmaster?
And I'd love for Alvin to have created intelligence in the buggers. perhaps he manipulated an insect genetically... to be the perfect making creation... but then for some reason thought better of it and sent them (somehow) out across the universe to another planet.
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I think that OSC is within striking distance of the the way things really are with his theory of what goes on behind the scene. The only thing he seems to leave out is the guided nature of things. That is that the greater the power of an idividual the more the currents of power guide them and move them about.
That being my premise then it is to be expected that all spiritualism should have its reflection in OSC's work.
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The Greensong does not provide instantaneous transportation, the way that Jane's FTL solution does. When Tecumseh and Alvin traveled to all the different tribes, it still took them time to do the travelling.
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Guys, any time an author's done a Grand Unifying Superego stunt, it's turned out badly. Don't give him any ideas -- not that I think he'd do it, anyway.
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Although I like the way the series could be compatable with one another, I'd have to say I think they work better as seperate worlds.
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That's the case when it's within a single story. What you're proposing unites several unrelated stories, while adding nothing of value.
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And to me the greensong was about being one with nature and being in balance. Very diffent than philotic jumping.
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Instead of Asimov's treatement, think on Heinlein...Uniting his science fiction and fantasy late in his carreer...Would you REALLY want that?
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The greensong and Jane's tricks aren't really connected at all in my mind. The Inside/outside thing was all physics and stuff, while the greensong is something much different, it has to do with your connection to the living forest.
However there is one thing that is VERY similar to Alvin Maker in Xenocide: when Ender goes Outside, whatever he dreams up becomes reality (like Peter and Val). This is exactly what Alvin does--the atoms rearrange themselves according to what Alvin thinks in his head.
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The Number of the Beast unites all fantasy within an overstructure of a Sciece Fiction Multiverse. It was not merely his work but everything. It was a good slice at it, but I think he was trying to write himself into his own stories, a very interesting attempt to become immortal.
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What BC said. Instead of trying to figure out some way of uniting storylines and keeping a coherent, interesting story in between, Heinlein introduced the Multiverse concept.
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