tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post1060793531904230896..comments2024-03-28T18:59:57.979+00:00Comments on Poul Anderson Appreciation: Brontothor, Avalon And DrakiaKetlanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08588156788583883454noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-84875623014207043552015-12-05T07:40:12.761+00:002015-12-05T07:40:12.761+00:00Kaor, Paul!
Exactly! And, as I said, the Draka a...Kaor, Paul!<br /><br />Exactly! And, as I said, the Draka are competent, intelligent tyrants.<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-52213561962080501242015-12-04T20:35:13.411+00:002015-12-04T20:35:13.411+00:00Sean,
The Draka really are super-Nazis. The only r...Sean,<br />The Draka really are super-Nazis. The only reason why they are not efficiently exterminating an entire race or nation is they do not perceive it as in their interests to do so.<br />Paul.Paul Shackleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04180596532266581425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-31034376401838670182015-12-04T17:00:41.351+00:002015-12-04T17:00:41.351+00:00Kaor, Paul!
But I have read your comments about &...Kaor, Paul!<br /><br />But I have read your comments about "Flight to Forever" with interest. And I can no longer call that early work by Poul Anderson a readable but unremarkable pulp story. You have found ideas and themes in that story which PA worked out far more richly and memorably in later works.<br /><br />Aircars might be an SF cliche, but it's one I wish we actually had! And, in fact, a company called Moller Internation has been trying to develop practical working models of real aircars. Much of their work resembles what you quoted from Stirling. I'll send you a link to MI.<br /><br />Yes, the struggle between the Alliance and the Domination in the Draka "is as clear cut an example of a struggle between good and evil, freedom and slavery, as human history affords." Even National Socialist Germany and the USSR was not QUITE as bad as the Draka, if only because the stupidity and incompetence so often shown by both did SOMETHING to limit the harm done by them. The Domination is a terrifying example of COMPETENT, intelligent tyranny.<br /><br />I far prefer either the Angrezi Raj or the Commonwealth of New Virginia that we see in others of Stirling's works. Or Poul Anderson's Technic Civilization and Terran Empire. They all had their flaws--but they were HUMAN flaws, tolerable flaws!<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.com