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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Charles Packer Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: [Tears] =?UTF-8?B?Q2hpbGRob29k4oCZcw==?= End by Arthur C. Clarke Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2024 09:00:18 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2024 10:00:18 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="70b73cd3adc75cc972bae382896174ba"; logging-data="4140104"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18/6sJaqD0B0NjM3k6vOOlh" User-Agent: Pan/0.158 (Avdiivka; ) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8KgfYZ01g1JoeV7N2UDwh9d0vjE= Bytes: 2129 On Fri, 15 Nov 2024 13:58:55 -0000 (UTC), James Nicoll wrote: > In article , > Charles Packer wrote: >>On 3 Nov 2024 13:17:57 -0000, James Nicoll wrote: >> >>> Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke >>> >>> For what purpose have the enigmatic Overlords taken control of Earth? >>> >>> https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/hush-dont-cry >> >>Are there any other examples of overlordship in SF? Defined as humankind >>placed under involuntary governance by either extraterrestrials or a >>special class of other humans, for either benign or malign reasons. > > Tons and tons, he said in the tone of someone who needed to produce > eight hundred to sixteen hundred words for tor today. OK. While I look up the titles that were given, I thought of a qualification that could narrow things down. There has to be a message to humans that the overlordship is for the good of humanity -- whether of not the overlords mean it. This would exclude stories simply of opression by a superclass.