Saturday 5 September 2020

Red Plague And A Three-Sided War

Poul Anderson, "The Deserter" IN War World, Vol. I: The Burning Eye, pp. 55-105.

The first person narrator visits a man hospitalized by the Red Plague, a new sickness, not understood, apparently airborne, killing thousands, but a new medicine expected. The patient is masked. That sounds like now.

The interstellar war has become three-sided between Secessionists, Claimants and Imperials. That is all that I have learned so far. (I might as well not have read any of this before.)

3 comments:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

I just wish the two Empires of Man periods of Pournelle's Co-Dominium timeline had been as carefully fleshed out as the earlier parts featuring Col. Falkenberg.

Ad astra! Sean

S.M. Stirling said...

Poul was interpolating his own views on the life-cycle of empires into the Co-Dominium future there.

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Mr. Stirling!

That was the impression I got, as well, from what I recall of "The Deserter."

Ad astra! Sean