Meanwhile, I have begun to read SM Stirling's Shadows Of Falling Night. I hope to see the Shadowspawn thoroughly buried in this concluding volume of their Trilogy.
There are two interesting points:
there was a successful human rebellion against Shadowspawn rule in prehistory and they have only recently gained control over human governments;
they themselves thought that their power was supernatural until it became possible to explain it in terms of quantum mechanics.
There is always fresh thought on old ideas.
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Kaor, Paul!
I agree on the near inexhaustibility of what can be found in the works of Poul Anderson. I'm also impressed by how much can be found in Anderson's stories because of you pointing it out.
And I look forward to whatever comments you give about Stirling's SHADOWS OF FALLING NIGHT. I would have liked to have known more about the First Empire of Shadows and how it was eventually overthrown about 20,000 years ago. I think the reason for the paucity of information about that era is because the Shadowspawn and their human victims were pre-literate. Because of them having telepathy and control of the "Power," the Shadowspawn had no reason to develope literacy and technology, AND for a long time they prevented such things from being developed by ordinary humans.
A big reason for the success of the Shadowspawn in A TAINT IN THE BLOOD and its sequels lay in them using renfields to keep them from being inescapably exposed for what they were.
Sean
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