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jsburbidge ([personal profile] jsburbidge) wrote2009-05-13 06:22 pm
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Thirteenth Child's Premises

(No, I haven't read the book.)

Without expressing a direct opinion on the racefail-allied aspects of the premises and the ensuing discussion --

I just finished rereading 1491 and I noted the emphasis on the degree to which the "wilderness" which the settlers found was actually a heavily human-formed landscape -- with the obvious implications that a genuinely "virgin forest" landscape would be rather different.

Accordingly -- how could one possibly imagine that a European settlement pattern in such an alternate timeline would resemble that of our timeline in any particular?

Just wondering.