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:
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
Poul was interpolating his own views on the life-cycle of empires into the Co-Dominium future there.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
That was the impression I got, as well, from what I recall of "The Deserter."
Ad astra! Sean
Post a Comment