How does Anson Guthrie's Fireball differ from Nicholas van Rijn's Solar Spice & Liquors Company?
Fireball offers:
exciting work;
high pay;
sympathetic management;
careers limited only by ability and luck.
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SSL also offers all that.
Both companies also offer routine work for those who do not want excitement!
The Difference
"In Fireball, somehow, you belonged, you shared a spirit, as few did anywhere on Earth." (p. 110)
Company loyalty replaces national loyalties as the nations decline whereas, in the Polesotechnic League period of the Technic History, the multivarious sovereign nation-states have already been subsumed in the Solar Commonwealth.
Future histories diverge but their inhabitants can always speculate about:
"...some hypothetical quantum-mechanical alternative reality..." (7, p. 97)
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
There is also one big difference between Fireball and Solar Spice & Liquors: the former operated only within the Solar System while the latter had operations sprawling over hundreds of light years. Anson Guthrie did not have FTL while Old Nick did.
Ad astra! Sean
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