[TML] Hi Pop World advice sought

[Richard Aiken]

On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Jerry W Barrington
<jerry.barrington at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/9/08 3:58 AM, "Richard Aiken" <raikenclw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Elizabeth Moon's Vatta's War series has a highly-advanced
> > spacefaring culture which . . . for reasons which her main characters
> > never discover . . . worship trees and forests.
>
> Hmm.  While I agree with your description of the station & world, I don't
> recall them ever saying they actually *worship* trees.  There was no
> deification involved.

You're right.  There isn't.  So I wasn't being technically accurate.
I was just viewing things from Ky Vatta's perspective, I guess.  I
just remember her idling wondering - after finding out in the 5th book
about their space force squadrons being named for tree species - how
all the tree stuff could have possibly gotten started.

-- 
Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident."  Robert A. Heinlein