SM Stirling, Ed., Drakas! (New York, 2000).
(See image. "INGSOC" is Newspeak for "English Socialism.")
And here is another literary reference, on the second page of "The Last Word" by Harry Turtledove in Drakas!:
"What had that Englishman called the Snakes? A boot in the face of mankind forever - something like that, anyhow." (p. 250)
And that is how O'Brien of the Thought Police describes the future to Winston Smith in George Orwell's 1984:
He is entirely honest about the brutal cynicism of the Party; the Party does not seek power
to do anything good, but simply to revel in that power: "Always,
Winston, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the
sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a
picture of the future, imagine a boot stomping on a human face —
forever."
-copied from here.
Very appropriate for the Draka: Orwell would have said it of them in their timeline.
In HG Wells' The Time Machine, bourgeoisie and proletarians devolve into different species. In Orwell's 1984, a Party makes a revolution, then freezes society into a new dictatorship forever. Turtledove's MacDonald refers to Orwell as "...that Englishman..." and Poul Anderson's Caleb Wallis refers to Wells as "'...a young Englishman in the '90's...'"
-Poul Anderson, There Will Be Time (New York, 1973), p. 73.
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