Mirkheim
The People Of The Wind
The Day Of Their Return
The Game Of Empire
- four novels in his Technic History. This future history series is about social change. There is a generation gap and a sense of growing corporate menace in "Lodestar," the short story that precedes Mirkheim.
This is the time of the evening when, sometimes, comparisons are made with other reading. Garth Ennis conveys the sense of an accelerating crisis - something will happen but no one knows what - in his graphic fiction series, The Boys. If superheroes existed, then why should they not just take over everything? Who or what would stop them? Read Garth Ennis.
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The first thing anyone should remember is that 'entropy rules' -- which means that no matter how bad things are, they can always get worse.(*)
The second is that the future is unknowable and uncontrollable. History is a mass of low-probability accidents; it cannot be planned or controlled.
As Lord Salisbury said while he was Prime Minister, the best way to proceed is to drift gently downstream, occasionally reaching out with a pole to fend off from obstacles.
(*) with minor exceptions, like being doused in gasoline and set on fire.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
Too true! Bad as the years after our 1914 has been it could have been vastly worse if something like your Domination of the Draka had arisen. Villains and monsters far smarter and more competent than the bungling Communists and Nazis we got. At least partly because too many of them took their absurd ideologies seriously!
Ad astra! Sean
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