This should also go on the Wall of Awesome
A friend sent me this link, which I found both awesome and amusing.
Odd that they mention cursorial hunting — that notion crops up in VINDICATION OF MAN, when the humans have an audience with the Hyades Cluster emissary-mind, it explains that the solar-system-sized artificial intelligence humans called The Beast, which was the military governor the Empyrean Polity of Man from the 61st to the 66th Millennium, was selected because its remote biological ancestors, and therefore its current psychology, society and laws, were those of a cursorial hunters, just like homo sapiens. The Whelks of Ain thought the two forms of cusorial hunters would be better able to understand each other.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
