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"It's hard to tell stories about critters that are not human. John W. Campbell tried it, in "Twilight," and everybody says it's a wonderful story, and nobody ever reads it twice."
- Jerry Pournelle
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| Graluz | ||
| A contained, concealed breeding pond for the frog-like Gowachin. |
The Gowachin are a frog-like race; they are at least as intelligent as people, and have a remarkable social organization that is slowly revealed in the novel.
But despite their advance to sentience, they still obey the ancient urges that shaped their species.
| Gowachin never strayed far from water. The Graluz - that central pool and sanctuary for females, the place where the Gowachin raised those tads which survived the ravenous weeding by the male parent - the Graluz always remained a central fixation for the Gowachin. There was always the water, contained water, the nervous slapping of wavelets against walls. The sound conveyed no fixed rhythms, but it was a profound clue to the Gowachin: contained, yet always different. |
| From The Dosadi Experiment,
by Frank Herbert. Published by Berkley Putnam in 1977 Additional resources -
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Frank Herbert's novels contain a wide variety of species; the Gowachin, the Palenki, the Wreaves. But the Gowachin are very sympathetically portrayed; I always liked this classic Gowachin aphorism:
"All sentient beings are created unequal. The best society provides each with equal opportunity to float at his own level."
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