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To: Lane3 who wrote (172815)	7/7/2006 2:21:54 PM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793883

That's my second favorite SF book ever. I'd forgotten about the revolution, though. What intrigue me was the group marriage. Totally alien construct It made me think about the mechanism we'll use to colonize other planets. That is something that is always overlooked by space junkies. They're "number people" invariably - astronomers, physcists, mathematicians, computer geeks, engineers - and they overlook the legal, political, and social. We have several models to choose from, all with their problems. The Greeks simply splintered, creating independent city-state colonies. The British set up largely self-governing polities protected by the Crown as "captured markets". The French and Spanish completely dominated their colonies, with France going so far as considering Algeria as much French as Provence. So will it be "Africa" all over again, or what? What a game to think about, knowing you'll never see it! Derek