Re: On-going KV debate

>At 10:03 AM 3/12/00 +1000, you wrote:
>>>OUR differing views come out a hell of a lot more often, why
shouldn't
>>>theirs?
>>
>>Since the KV are still rather unknown to humanity, perhaps we haven't
seen
>>yet the diversity of their culture. I mean in Rot Hafen, we saw two (I
>>think) Clans. There have to be more. Maybe these two are the Clans
that hold
>>power in the areas that are in touch with humanity (similar to the
fact that
>>perhaps the OU and NAC hold power in the areas that touch KV). Other
Clans
>>are kept away from humanity by the threat of war with the controlling
Clans.
>
>Actually, I finally remembered what all this Kravak/alien culture
>discussion reminded me of: a rather good little novel by Walter Jon
Willams
>entitled Voice of the Whirlwind. One of the central forces in the book
were
>aliens who: a) had different factions, which they successfully hid from
>humanity for quite some time b) use a pheremonal mode of
>communication/control in addition to vocal (IIRC, pheremones of a
leader
>could 'control' or at least affect the emotional state of his
>subordinates... yet they were intelligent and competitive in a rather
>Byzantine way) and, most interestingly, c) certain humans, when exposed
to
>alien pheremones, became *addicted* to them.
>
>Kravak addiction, anyone? At any rate, the book is an excellent read,
both
>in term of cyberpunk-type technology and social structure, a smidgin of
the
>horrors of corporate warfare, and a pretty nifty alien race which seems
to
>parallel a lot of the thought going into the Kravak.

I'll have to search for this one, its a WJW novel I haven't come across
-
I've read a good bit of his stuff, and it was Angel Station that
inspired
several of the ideas about the Sa'Vasku (including their use of
"volitional" and non-volitional" constructs).

Jon (GZG)