tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post4624441572017621756..comments2024-03-19T07:31:11.465+00:00Comments on Poul Anderson Appreciation: Neutral AdvisorsKetlanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08588156788583883454noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-45331285946848756872016-03-21T16:31:18.525+00:002016-03-21T16:31:18.525+00:00Kaor, Paul!
Dang! I should have remembered the Or...Kaor, Paul!<br /><br />Dang! I should have remembered the Order of Planetary Engineers, who even had (I think) an "abbot" as their chief. But that was more an organization of engineers and technicians trying to BUILD things that would benefit the entire human race. Not as acting as advisers to any state.<br /><br />A better example from Poul Anderson's works might be the Order of Communicators we see in "The Communicators." What had once began as simply a scientific research group had evolved during centuries of chaos into a quasi religious order which had taken on more and more roles, "secular" as well as semi-religious. The very end of the story has Brother Roban saying: "Sir, we... we can't murder: we can't take sides. It's not in our t-t-tradition."<br /><br />Sean Sean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-27254322310272239082016-03-21T08:40:48.395+00:002016-03-21T08:40:48.395+00:00Sean,
Planetary Engineers in the Psychotechnic His...Sean,<br />Planetary Engineers in the Psychotechnic History? I thought that there was some such group in THE WINTER OF THE WORLD but I would have to check.<br />Paul.Paul Shackleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04180596532266581425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-66102491200393460122016-03-21T01:01:09.910+00:002016-03-21T01:01:09.910+00:00Kaor, Paul!
Unfortunately, I can't remember a...Kaor, Paul!<br /><br />Unfortunately, I can't remember anything like Kzinti Conservors in the works of Poul Anderson. That is, advisors whose first loyalty is either to the human race or a human society as a whole. I think the human race is too quarrelsome and bellicose for anything like that to naturally arise among us. Which makes it all the more surprising the Kzinti evolved such an institution.<br /><br />Of course I've heard of Cardinal John Henry Newman, and read some of his works, but I've never heard of a Cardinal Newman College before this blog piece of yours.<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.com