Talk:Eight Worlds

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Consistency

okay so a lot of the details in these stories don't quite match up, especially with steel beach and golden globe. this makes it hard for the article to get any particular accuracy without "well except for..."s after every mention. i just added a few of those myself, but i tried to keep them unannoying. i added that last section on consistency, with varley's author note, and a couple references to it in the article. is there a better way to do this? steel beach is the only story i have read recently, so i don't really remember what happened to who when, for the most part. --dan 07:17, 24 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Which worlds?

Shouldn't the article mention which planets and moons are the "Eight Worlds"? DenisMoskowitz (talk) 20:55, 23 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think the Eight Worlds are: Mercury, Venus, Luna (moon of Earth), Mars, Titan (moon of Saturn), one of the moons of Uranus, Triton (moon of Neptune), and Pluto. I'm not putting this into the main article because I don't have a specific cite of where they are listed, and I am not sure if they list the outer gas giants by the planet, or the inhabited moon, or the rings in the case of Saturn.

Cptbutton (talk) 11:59, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Vermin?

The article currently contains this sentence concerning the Invaders: "They classify living beings in one of three categories: those such as themselves, who arise in gas giant planets everywhere, cetaceans such as dolphins and whales, and vermin, the last category including all sentient beings other than Invaders and cetaceans". Is there a source for this "vermin" part? My recollection is that, after animals like themselves, the Invaders most value sentient animals which also operate in a fully three-dimensional domain, hence cetaceans on Earth, and only "punished" humans because they threatened these. And this punishment was "only" the removal of technology on the Earth - the Invaders don't kill any humans directly, and left human settlements away from the Earth completely untouched. Furthermore, when it becomes clear to the Invaders that humans can't be trusted to abide with this situation, they gift humanity with the singularity technology to allow them to leave our solar system and settle other systems. That doesn't sound quite like "vermin" to me - is this perhaps simply the viewpoint of one particular character in the Eight Worlds? Cheers, --PLUMBAGO 08:16, 24 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]