Wednesday, 12 August 2020

"Briar Patch"

"Briar Patch."

Two questions about this story:

if Locklear found female kzinti about to speak in the kzinti compound on Zoo, then what will he find in the human compound? (the point being that the compounds were stocked a very long time ago);

the title suggests that maybe the story shares a theme with one installment of Poul Anderson's Psychotechnic History?

I will know the answer to the second question when I have read the story in full. Meanwhile, I have become interested in pursuing some questions about Anderson's Time Patrol.

3 comments:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Meaning any "human" females Locklear finds might not be what he hopes to find. Either incomprehensibly "advanced" or pre-human hominids.

And "Briar Patch" reminded me as well of that story from Psychotechnic series. It's more likely than not, however, that Ing had nothing directly Andersonian in mind.

Ad astra! Sean

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

Sean,

In fact, Neanderthal.

Paul.

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Now THAT interests me! I hope I have "Briar Patch" somewhere here!

Ad astra! Sean