"'Up river there's a settlement of nothing but Burkes.'"
-Poul Anderson, "Virgin Planet" IN Anderson, The Complete Psychotechnic League, Volume 3 (Riverdale, NY, 2018), pp. 43-112 AT p. 81.
In the longer version, Davis and his companions not only visit Burketown but also have a dramatic adventure, involving espionage and an escape, while they are there. The Burkes plan to kill his companions, then to monopolize the Man, thus making themselves independent of the Doctors. Anderson excels at power politics on any planet.
Multi-tasking: while writing this post, I am listening to an on-line meeting. Such meetings mushroom while we cannot meet physically.
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Kaor, Paul!
And I would like to see far BETTER and more honest filmed versions of THE HOBBIT and THE LORD OF THE RINGS. I detested how Peter Jackson mauled and mangled those stories!
And I want so much to see good and ACCURATE similarly filmed versions of some of the Nicholas van Rijn and Dominic Flandry tales.
Eventually, of course, politicians will have to meet people in PERSON if they don't want to find themselves becoming figureheads. There's only so much you can do with merely videoed "meetings."
Ditto, what you said about how Anderson handled the schemes and intrigues of the Burkes!
Ad astra! Sean
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