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To: Sully- who wrote (32169)	4/12/2005 11:31:49 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 90947

Depends on how you look at matters. Clarke isn't preaching "Ban The Bomb" or "No More War"- -he's writing a science fiction story, and one that becomes interesting partly because magic and superstition, witches and wizards from previous ages suddenly have meaning- -they have a bit of the power that the final human generation is heir to. Man moves on to the next evolutionary stage stage which is to meld with the Overmind and become part of it. The entire universe and probably more is their plaything. From the current human perspective, it has definite tragic elements. It means the end of Homo sapiens- -man as we know him becomes extinct. Except one man who stowed away on an Overlord ship. The change took place while he is gone. He comes back to an Earth changed beyond recognition. And when he dies (and he is the last human) the human race is extinct. In that sense it is an unimaginable tragedy. But looked at from the POV of the first paragraph, it is an unimaginable triumph.