The Beached Whale

The story was a fun read, stylistically it reminded me a bit of Asimov, only with aliens similar to Tolkien’s elves brought into the mix.

I see how the society of the Kimonians could be seen as a parallel to the philosophy behind web developers and other computer scientists who don’t want the ultimate end of the internet to be business/profit oriented.  The Kimonians seem to freely share all their information with each other – it’s unavoidable, in fact.  As a result their society has progressed much further than mere humans are capable of doing, even though they may not be vastly more intelligent.  Often in sci-fi telepathy is portrayed as a fancy alternative to talking, I thought the way that it was made into the Kimonians’ great breakthrough that allowed them to so vastly surpass humanity was an interesting idea.

~ by philip on April 8, 2009.