Memorial Day/Whale Day
2007-05-28 @ 9:52 p.m.

IMT was a bore. Finished reading Schild's Ladder, which was okay. Not as interesting as Diaspora, but that's partly because the science in the latter was more comprehensible to me. Exotic physics is very difficult to grasp for someone possessed of what is really a very pathetic mathematical and physical background. Still, I can't help being drawn to this genre of writing. Started reading Octavia E. Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy (Dawn, Adulthood Rites, Imago). It's eminently readable stuff! Won't write too much about the plot because you can easily check that out online for yourself. Suffice to say that it's set centuries in the future, after a nearly successful humanicide. Just wondering, if God had made life on other planets, do you think it'd look anything like what we've got on Earth? Or is that me trying to anthropomorphise? Personally, I think the breaking point for religion, for some people at least, will be when humans succeed in colonising another world. It's kind of hard to go on believing in God when you're practically getting the chance to be a god in the new world. So that's why I don't think humanity's meant to inherit the universe. Deep down, we probably know it too, which is why we're so drawn to these tales of distant futures when our descendants have spread across the stars. What do you think?