Saturday, 7 November 2020

Some Miscellaneous Parallels II

The previous post failed to highlight that:

a rogue planet is about to strike the star Saxo, thus destroying Dragoika's home planet, Starkad;

the Norrmen, Maurai and Mong live in the long aftermath of the War of Judgment.

Thus, the post is more united thematically than it seemed.

There is also a parallel between fictional disclosures of long-term plans and expectations in Hell. 

Steven Matuchek overhears the Devil anticipating:

"...the next plan...the great one of which [World War II] was naught but an early leaf..."
-Poul Anderson, Operation Chaos (New York, 1995), IV, pp. 25-26.

"From the point of view which is accepted in Hell, the whole history of our Earth had led up to this moment."
-CS Lewis, That Hideous Strength IN Lewis, The Cosmic Trilogy (London, 1990), pp. 349-753 AT CHAPTER 9, p. 560.
 
"'...the meeting of Ware and Baines presages something monstrous for the world at large... all Hell has been waiting for this meeting since the two of them were born.'"
-James Blish, Black Easter IN Blish, After Such Knowledge (London, 1991), p. 342.
 
"There has been a prophecy. Incontrovertible - - engraved on a stone dredged up from Hell."
-Jamie Delano, John Constantine Hellblazer: Original Sins (New York, 1982), "Intensive Care," pp. 19-20, panel  4.
 
The enemies of mankind gather their forces.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

And the star Saxo is described as being an F5 short lived, expected to remain on the main sequence for less than a billion year before going nova. The huge mass of a rogue planet suddenly plunging into a Saxo becoming unstable would trigger that explosion far sooner.

And I think that name "Mong" originally came from a shortening of "Mongol."

And the idea of supernatural forces hostile to mankind can be found not only in the works youu cited but also in THREE HEARTS AND THREE LIONS and Tolkien's Middle Earth legendarium. The former says Chaos was ultimately the servant of the Adversary; the latter has Morgoth hating and fearing mankind, even those men who served him.

Ad astra! Sean