Wednesday 27 September 2017

Jovians And Inner Planetarians

In Poul Anderson's Psychotechnic History, Solmen live on Solar planets, not on Sol. Earlier, Jovians, contrasted with "inner planetarians" (The Snows Of Ganymede, Chapter 2, p. 13), lived on Jovian moons, not on Jupiter. There were then only two states in the Solar System, the Solar Union and Jupiter. The Jovians wanted the Planetary Engineers to terraform Ganymede and Callisto.

Sometimes an author of a future history summarizes by quoting from a fictional history book, e.g., de la Garde's Short History Of Interplanetary Colonization is quoted on pp. 14-16 of Chapter 3 in The Snows Of Ganymede. The Years of Madness (see here) are called "...the lunatic years..." (p. 14) We knew from "Un-Man" that the Pilgrim Church had emigrated to Mars. Now we learn that the White American Church had emigrated to Ganymede in the Jovian System. The psychotechs secretly encouraged the emigration and the government covertly funded it in order to bankrupt the anti-technological movement back on Earth. The plot thickens.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Slightly off-tangent, hmmm, the Earth gov't wanted to be rid of tiresome anti-technological types? Kinda reminds me of the situation seen in ORBIT UNLIMITED, where we see the World Federation ridding itself of the more annoying Constitutionalists by similar means.

Sean