Wednesday, 13 February 2019

Wars, A Rebellion And A Philosophy

Poul Anderson, Orbit Unlimited, part one, 1.

To answer a question asked here:

there have been "'...Atomic Wars...'" (p. 15), although we are not told how many;

there was a "'...North American Rebellion...'" (p. 11) twenty years previously.

But I have already summarized the opening chapter here.

Anderson imagines future philosophies:

Constitutionalism in this Rustum future history;
Egalitarianism in Shield;
Cosmenosis in the Technic history;
Gaeanity in the Maurai history;
Xuanism in the Harvest of Stars future history;
no doubt others.

2 comments:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

To say nothing, of course, of how we see real world, ancient faiths and philosophies such as Christianity and Buddhism in the works of Anderson.

Sean

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

Sean,

Oh, yes. I was trying go focus just on fictional future philosophies.

Paul.