IF you ever thought to ponder some of the serious questions I asked myself while writing MH, here’s a list of the ones I found most interesting…and possibly irritating:

1. Can there be such a thing as a Homo post religio (literally: “man” after religion”?
2. What does the Free Martian Fellowship’s slogan mean? (“Our religion is freedom. Our worship is action.”)
3. Artificial Humans like QuinnAH, HanAH, MisAH and the rest neither grow nor age. They wear out. What if one of them had been part of a group who lynched a dozen Human farmers — would Stepan have still befriended them?
4. Would it be possible for Martian society to come to see that Artificial Humans and AI are worthwhile as a different expression of what it is to be Human?
5. Is any belief in anything immaterial a major cause of Human suffering in the 21^st Century?
6. How would YOU react to Artificial Humans? How do you react to Artificial Intelligence? Will or DO they deserve to be considered Human?