tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post1883858927270787060..comments2024-03-19T07:31:11.465+00:00Comments on Poul Anderson Appreciation: Three PrincesKetlanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08588156788583883454noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-14889096798707908672016-03-15T07:12:20.656+00:002016-03-15T07:12:20.656+00:00Kaor, Paul!
I suggest, in addition, that Max Abra...Kaor, Paul!<br /><br />I suggest, in addition, that Max Abrams desired the young Dominic Flandry to study not only Machiavelli's THE PRINCE, but also his DISCOURSES. Reading both will give students of political thought a sounder view of Machiavelli's views on the state and political action.<br /><br />And even in such early CoDominium works of Jerry Pournelle's THE MERCENARY and WEST OF HONOR you will find serious reflections on political problems. One of them being, as I'm seeing in the early chapters of MERCENARY being that sometimes decent men have to do objectively bad thing to prevent even worse things like a nuclear war from breaking out.<br /><br />And I am looking forward to seeing how you compare Pournelle/Stirling's GO TELL THE SPARTANS and PRINCE OF SPARTA to Anderson's ENSIGN FLANDRY.<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.com