In Poul Anderson's Technic History, Hugh McCormac fails to seize the Imperial Throne by force whereas Hans Molitor succeeds and there are two unsuccessful attempts to overthrow Gerhart Molitor.
Future histories combine technological advance with political turmoil. This parallel between the Future History and the Technic History is disguised by the fact that Heinlein's turmoil is merely global whereas Anderson's is interstellar. The same or similar processes occur on a vaster spatiotemporal scale.
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Kaor, Paul!
And I still wish Heinlein had written "The Stone Pillow," his hypothesized story about Nehemiah Scudder, that First Prophet.
Political turmoil, on whatever scale, is simply a fact of human life. Because of how quarrelsome, contentious, fickle, etc., so many humans are.
Ad astra! Sean
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