Hector refers to:
Flora Macdonald
Clan Ranald
the Hebrides
Benbecula
Culloden
Betsy Burke
History is never far away in informed sf.
If Charlie is to be an Andersonian, and presumably also a Dicksonian, hero, then he must take charge of his own destiny but he has not yet done this by the end of Chapter 9 (of 17). He is captured, really rescued, by the despot, Olaghi, but then counter-rescued by Hector, without any say in the matter. But he has begun to identify with the rebels although helping them will involve breaking the League non-interference law.
Olaghi moves quicker than the rebels expect because he and his agents have radios smuggled to him from within the League.
The League has "'...subspace radio...'" (8, p. 95) I think that this connects with the kind of FTL interstellar communication used in "Sargasso of Lost Starships" but am not about to look that up at this time of night.
Onward, Earthlings! (And non-Earthlings.)
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Now you are getting close to what kind of novel STAR PRINCE CHARLIE is, a bildungsroman, a coming of age story. Such stories are characterized by how we see callow, immature, hesitant youths becoming mature, firm, decisive adults.
Sean
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