Again, characters' names are unfamiliar. They wear sarongs so they are probably Maurai. Their aircraft passes over Losanglis, lit at night by the few fires of its squatters who:
"...are known to be robbers and said to be cannibals." (p. 140)
This long after the War of Judgment, barbarism persists in parts of Merica despite the civilization that we know from the previous stories has been restored elsewhere.
The narrator is of the Sea People, i.e., the Maurai. The text begins in mid-sentence because it is an extract from a letter to Elena Kalakaua, daughter of a Member of Parliament in the Maurai Federation. As in the previous story, this journey is a spying expedition. In "Progress," the Maurai spied out and destroyed a clandestine fusion power plant. What damage will they perpetrate in "Windmill"? Surely they cannot object to windmills?
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Kaor, Paul!
Considering the SHATTERING devastation and havoc of the War of Judgment and its all too probable immediate aftermath, I don't think it was that implausible to see savagery still lingering or even reviving in places like the ruins of Los Angeles.
Ad astra! Sean
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