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4, 2 pairs of twins. One sister to mirror the mental qualities of each of the L2s with Christopher to meld the best quaities of both his parents.
Also, the point wasn't that women weren't able to bear the Lensman's Load. It was that they weren't able to synchronize with Mentor to eradicate the Eddorians. That was ultimately the purpose of the entire Lensman corps. Everything else was a nice side benefit. Doc Smith did believe that women were inherently _different_ from men in terms of fundamental psychology. I don't know that this is true myself but I don't know that it's wrong either.
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False. He believed that women were inherently incompatible with full linkage with a disembodied Arisian.
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I know the Gurps book addresses these points but as far as i can tell they just made their material up.
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(Genetic engineering is just as bad or worse, BTW.) The story requires that people go places and do things, not send robots or remote-controlled intelligent machines to go places and do things. They make some use of very limited automata, they have what we would consider relatively crude automatic controls for certain things, and they can make bionic prosthetics superior to anything we know how to build...but they can't build spacecraft that operate without crews, or combat robots that take the place of men on the battlefield. Things like flying microbots carrying poison stings, or mass automation of the economy, just simply would transform Civilization into a different place. |
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