A tame clopperhoof draws a wagon. Anyone making an authentic screen adaptation of Poul Anderson's The Game Of Empire would have to decide what a clopperhoof looks like. Human beings whose families have lived on Imhotep for generations are dark-skinned and aquiline-featured and should not look like dark-skinned Terrestrials. (There is a squat, black, planetary population in Larry Niven's Known Space - on Jinx?)
Like any good installment of a future history series, The Game Of Empire mixes old and new information. By this time, the series is so well-established and rich that there is much familiar information. There are references to:
Imperial offices
the Troubles
the Terran Empire
the inner Empire
the vaz-Siravo
a Merseian onslaught
Mother Terra
a regenerated arm
a centauroid Donarrian
Irumclagians
Shalmuans
Anglic
Toborko
Woden
Greater Terra
Adzel the Wayfarer
Tigeries
probably more but I must go out
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul
A "clopperhoof" should be something like a draft horse, probably with bigger hooves than Terrestrial horses of approximately the same size. The trick, in any movie based on THE GAME OF EMPIRE, would be to make either a disguised horse look like an alien animal. Perhaps using CGI would be better?
I think Anderson wanted us to think of the Egyptians by the way he described Imhotepans.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
CGI is easy nowadays.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
And would be necessary to use in films about Nicholas van Rijn and Dominic Flandry. Which I still daydream about!
Ad astra! Sean
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