Yes, an excellent series, though as you say, very bleak.
Swann was one of the guests of honor at ConFurence several years ago. He
was a shy but very interesting speaker, and his talk and book signing drew
plenty of interested furries. I'll definitely buy anything he writes. :-)
-Thorne
> Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 05:07:29 -0000
> From: "rhio2k" <rhio2k_at_yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Furry Acceptance
>
> Have any of you guys read the "Moreau" series by S. Andrew Swann?
> These books are "Forests of the Night", "Emperors of
> Twilight", "Spectors of the Dawn", and "Fearful Symmetries: The
> return of Nohar Rajasthan", and the soon-to-be-released (this month,
> in fact) Moreau Omnibus, which combines the first 3 novels of the
> series in one book. In these books, moreaus were developed by non-
> american countries as infantry, and after all the wars were ended,
> the vast majority of moreaus immigrated to America, only to occupy
> the social position equal to that of negroes just after being
> emancipated from slavery, and crammed into slums and other
> neighborhoods deemed unfit for human inhabitation. Pretty bleak, huh?
> Damn good books, though. I kinda figured these books would be
> considered high on the reading list for furries, but so far, I'm the
> only person whose ever heard of them that I know of. There's plenty
> of inspirition for fanart, too. Anyway, should genetic tinkering
> become available to actually become furries, I think this fate lies
> in store, what with being first, deemed mentally unstable for wanting
> to be anything other than human, and second, getting a whole new
> dangerous set of natural weaponns and probably enhanced muscle fibers
> and greater strength. You'd be either institutionalized or shoved
> into the ghetto to keep "normal" people safe. As for actually
> creating moreaus (sounds more mature than "furries", anyway) I think
> there would be a lot of round-ups and mass-terminations. Humans
> already believe they are the ultimate life form. In a world where
> something so trivial as skin color matters so much, how badly do you
> think you'd be treated for being a different species? Off the pink.
>
>
Received on Sat Aug 09 2003 - 11:49:53 CDT