I am still rereading Starfarers, Chapter 21/"Ghetto," and finding a lot more condensed information to post about. For example, there is a "Radiant of Jupiter," (p. 187) who must be one of the "Outerfolk" mentioned here. There is information about Dominancy castes and also about changes in the neighborhood surrounding Kith Town during three generations of Kenri Shaun's family, which are equivalent to several centuries of Terrestrial history. However, I now defer any further posts till tomorrow. It requires more effort, later in the evening, to reread Anderson's text, extract relevant fictional facts and summarize them accurately. Meanwhile, it becomes almost a relief to read novels by another author, in this case John Grisham, without (usually) wanting to post about him. (I got into Grisham by reading The Firm after seeing the film. How many more people would get into reading Poul Anderson if they first saw good film adaptations of the Technic History?)
2 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I think the Radiant of Jupiter was the title or honorific used for the ruler of the major moons of Jupiter, who was apparently powerful enough to at least think of challenging the Dominancy.
We should also keep in mind Chapter 21 of STARFARERS is a revision of the original version of "Ghetto" pub. in the May 1954 issue of F & SF. The Star Empire of that story was renamed the "Dominancy" for the revision. Now that I've finished STARFARERS, I will reread the original text.
Ad astra! Sean
Kaor, Paul!
The last sentences of this blog piece of yours reminded me of how many, many people started reading the works of Tolkien after watching Peter Jackson's ghastly HOBBIT and LOTR movies. So Jackson's movies did that much good!
Alas, I don't think there is much hope of anyone making GOOD, accurate films of some of the Nicholas van Rijn or Dominic Flandry stories.
Ad astra! Sean
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