By John Varley
Two decades in the past, the Gaean Trilogy dazzled critics and readers. Now a brand new iteration will become aware of that extraordinary world--beginning with Titan.
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Perhaps the pleasure comes from the fact that the joining behavior was always triggered by fear and immediately followed by safety and relief. ) There is no particular advantage to random joining of memo ries - these creatures aren't all that bright yet- except that young aliens whose parents conjoin with them and pass memories to them gain a com petitive advantage over other youngsters who remain ignorant of their par ents' memories. The result is that memory-passing is- strongly reinforced from genera tion to generation, and in true Lamarckian fashion, learned behaviors be come part of the heritage of each succeeding generation.
In a fantasy, if magic has no limitations, the characters are omnipotent gods; anything can happen, and so there's no story. There have to be strict limits on magic. Dungeons and Dragons uses a seniority system that may work well for games, but for s tories it is truly stupid: The longer you manage to stay alive, the more spells you know and the more power you have. I wanted my students to come up with better limitations, and I wanted them to think of it as a price to be paid for every bit of magical power that was used.
So the worshippers of the old god1 the Hart1 would enter town through this gateway. 1 Did I have a story? By no means. I still didn t even have a world. I set the map aside. Around that time1 the TV news was full of stories about a couple in Layton1 Utah1 who had just given birth to twins conjoined at the top of their heads. It was a tricky operation to separate them1 and the photos before they were separated were disturbingly alien. But1 being a perverse sort of person1 I tried to imagine what could be worse.
