(urth) A Good Society

[Paul B]

Yeah, and the bad society often goes hand in hand with secularism (or
wrongheaded spirituality).  Long Sun is of course the most obvious example
of this, but I haven't read him describe a spiritual society either, to
date.  Presumably because life there would be so good it'd be dull writing.

Paul

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:17 AM, John Smith <jsmith2627 at att.net> wrote:

> Can any one think of a Wolfe novel or story in which
> he portrays a good society?
>
> When I re-read  The Fifth Head of Cerberus, I realized
> that on the first reading I had missed how brutal and
> nasty the planet of Sainte. Croix is.  Urth and the
> Whorl are also terrible places.    Stories like The
> Death of Dr. Island have a cruel or indifferent
> society in the background.
>
> Wolfe doesn't seem to write about utopias.   But does
> he ever show even a decent world?
>
> Jack
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Jack
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