re: #139 Romantic Heretic

I’m now thinking of David Brin’s Uplift Saga. Where Galactic culture goes back 3 billion years.

In those books humans were fortunate enough to have made it to space before they encounter the Galactics. Had they discovered us now they would have decided to destroy us. Not because they’re evil conquerors but because we’ve been such poor stewards of our planet we’re not fit for civilized company. We’re utter barbarians by their standards.

I’m often not sure I disagree.

Hey by the time the Galatics discover us in the book we’ve managed to sort things out to make sure that Earth is look after, and already become the patron species to Neo-Chimps, Neo-Dolphins.

We were doing pretty well for ourselves, for utter wolflings without any hint of a patron race or a branch of the Galatic Library we were doing pretty gosh darn well for ourselves!