(urth) A Good Society

[Jeff Wilson]

John Smith 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?

The Goddess' world in _There Are Doors_ is a pretty tranquil liberal 
democracy similar to 1950's Britain - She reigns with the lightest of 
hands and suffers Her people to govern themselves as long as Her worship 
and personal property are respected.


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