"The Asteroid Queen," Chapter II.
A kzinti Conservor of the Ancestral Past says:
"'... once we thought that Homeworld was the only world of life. Then the Jotok landed, and for a time we thought they were from the God, because they had swords of fire that could tumble a Pariarch's castle-wall, while we had only swords of steel. Our musket-balls were nothing to them...'" (p. 60)
So did Jerry Pournelle and SM Stirling introduce the Jotok? The first three Man-Kzin Wars (MKW) volumes contain only:
two stories by Larry Niven;
two by Poul Anderson;
two by Dean Ing;
two by Pournelle and Stirling.
I have yet to read the two by Ing, which are focused around the fourth MKW, but scanning through them does not reveal any references to Jotok.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Now I'm wondering how many of the Man/Kzin Wars books I have. And one story, about a "cowardly" Kzin, shows him as having much to do with slaves who might be Jotoki. I don't recall the title and author, tho.
Ad astra! Sean
Yup, the Jotok were Jerry and me. We were puzzled how the Kzinti could have come up with an industrial society and maintained such an elementary social structure, and we decided the simplest explanation was that they got handed their technology by aliens.
Similar things happened in Poul's Technic History.
The likely impact of being -handed- advanced technology could be quite different from having to go through the process of developing it yourself.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
The examples I've thought of from PA's Technic History being "A Little Knowledge," and "Tiger By The Tail."
I agree, to have advanced technology suddenly dumped on top of a more primitive society is unlikely to be either entirely good or happy in the consequences.
Ad astra! Sean
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