tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post5180324285059863161..comments2024-03-29T09:09:24.834+00:00Comments on Poul Anderson Appreciation: FreedomKetlanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08588156788583883454noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-66650762988258447892016-01-24T02:39:17.809+00:002016-01-24T02:39:17.809+00:00Kaor, Nicholas!
An excellent example from GENESIS...Kaor, Nicholas!<br /><br />An excellent example from GENESIS. One I agree with! And you reminded me as well of the "draft animals" we see on page 120 of the hardcover version, when Kalava was driving his chariot to the Temple to consult Ilyandi the skythinker: "Four matched slaves drew the car. Their line had been bred for generations to be draft creatures--huge, long-legged, spirited, yet trustworthy after the males were gelded." Since GENESIS is set in the impoverished, dying Earth of a billion years from now, where suitable draft animals apparently no longer existed, it was at least understandable, if repulsive, why some in the future took and "remolded" humans to be draft beasts.<br /><br />And I agree Anderson most likely did not get such ideas from Stirling.<br /><br />Sean<br />Sean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-20008133481284421752016-01-24T01:36:33.459+00:002016-01-24T01:36:33.459+00:00There may be an echo of the Homines servi in Ander...There may be an echo of the Homines servi in Anderson's GENESIS, where we see genetic slaves, e.g., to quote from memory, "an anthropoid whose ancestors had been human, but who lived only to serve his master." On the other hand, Anderson had played with ideas like that decades before, so he need not have gotten the notion from Stirling.<br /><br />Best Regards,<br />Nicholas D. RosenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-11859415001128491052016-01-23T20:55:48.867+00:002016-01-23T20:55:48.867+00:00Kaor, Paul!
I forgot to add I agree that it was u...Kaor, Paul!<br /><br />I forgot to add I agree that it was unfortunate Poul Anderson contributed his own speculations about the Draka in a story. After all, it's not as tho he was against that kind of idea in principle: think of the contributions he made to Larry Niven's Known Space timeline in the Man/Kzin Wars series.<br /><br />But, we do have DRAKAS! which collects some stories Stirling authorized or consented to being written in his Domination timeline.<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-6009955814782848572016-01-23T17:07:37.675+00:002016-01-23T17:07:37.675+00:00Kaor, Paul!
The gratuitous, pointless, and needle...Kaor, Paul!<br /><br />The gratuitous, pointless, and needless lesbianism I see in some of S.M. Stirling's non Draka is the chief complaint I have with them. But not with the Draka series. Because sexual depravity, abuse, and perversion is a natural consequence of the Draka's drive to dominate and impose their will on non-Draka. So the lesbianism we see in the Draka books at least made sense.<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.com