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"The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction. You look at the world around you, and take it apart into its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens."
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![]() In the travels of the New Frontiers in the novel, the colonists run across a very tidy little planet inhabited by The Little People.
In the novel, it is also possible for people to join these groups. One of the Howard Families, Mary Sperling, does so:
The idea of a group mind can be found as early as 1930 in Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men.
Compare to the ring-table from The Universe Wreckers (1930) by Edmond Hamilton, a device which creates a group mind among participants. See also the entry for hive mind from Second Night of Summer (1953) by James Schmitz Comment/Join this discussion ( 2 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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