Elverir flies Kinna to Tharshis to meet the Inrai, Lunarian rebels and outlaws who:
rob caravans;
wreck machines;
kill sophotects and men.
Is this feasible on a colonized Mars?
It is not as far from our experience as you might expect. I attended secondary school and University in the Republic of Ireland in the 1960s and early '70s which means that I met people who waged war against the British presence in Northern Ireland. Half a dozen big shops were fire-bombed in Sheila's home town in the North while we were there. My mother, from the West of Ireland but living in respectable English society, had some heated exchanges with neighbors about Irish history. My politics were shifting almost imperceptibly but not towards armed struggle.
We enjoy recognizing familiar kinds of problems and conflicts in exotic settings. See:
Exotica And Mirrors
A Fantastic World
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Where humans beings and their communities and societies are concerned, I will always expect conflict and strife to be possible. Because that is simply what people are like, all too prone to be quarrelsome.
Sean
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