-Poul Anderson, "The Green Thumb" IN Anderson, The Complete Psychotechnic League, Volume 3 (Riverdale, NY, 2018), pp. 21-41 AT p. 29.
"'...available data indicate that his companions are quite unintegrate.'"
-Poul Anderson, "The Pirate" IN The Complete Psychotechnic League, Volume 3, pp. 137-165 AT p. 143.
"'Think what happened in Earth's past when there were sovereign states working at unintegrated cross-purposes.'"
-Poul Anderson, The Peregrine (New York, 1979), CHAPTER IV, pp. 28-29.
These are the only references to "integration" in Anderson's Psychotechnic History. (Correction: see here.) We need a whole novel set within an "integrate" civilization. Clearly the adjective applies equally to individuals and to societies.
"The Green Thumb" also mentions several races in such close symbiosis with nature that they never developed any mechanical technology. The Alori, encountered later, should not have come as a surprise then.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
And I strongly suspect that many who might grow up in an "integrated" civilization would still not like it!
Ad astra! Sean
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