In 3, Chunderban Desai replays the holographic recoding of his conversation with Peter Jowett.
In 13, Desai tells his wife that Jowett has been shot dead by a separatist.
In 15, Desai mentions to Tatiana Thane that a dozen prominent citizens have been assassinated and that she herself might be in danger.
We read this and take it for granted. Yesterday, conflict intensified on a particular part of the Earth's surface. I then reread these passages with a changed perspective. Poul Anderson conveys the sense of troubled times in Mirkheim, The Day Of Their Return, A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows and The Game of Empire.
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Kaor, Paul!
And the people getting assassinated or massacred by terrorists belonged to the better sides of those conflicts in both Aeneas and that "...particular part of the Earth's surface"!
Ad astra! Sean
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