"'...live in small groups - single families or extended households -...'"
-Poul Anderson, "The Problem of Pain" IN Anderson, The Van Rijn Method (Riverdale, NY, 2009), pp. 103-134 AT p. 112.
Mainland choths have thousands of members whereas, in the Oronesian Islands, a single family can constitute a choth with children expected to become independent.
"Wings of Victory" introduces Ythrians but does not mention choths. "The Problem of Pain" mentions choths but focuses on the Ythrian New Faith. (The word translated as "Faith" might have been better translated as "Way"/"Dharma/"Tao/"Logos" etc?) "Wingless" and "Rescue on Avalon" each introduce a particular choth but both are set in very early periods on Avalon before any human beings have joined choths. The only narrative to feature human choth members is The People Of The Wind. However, Earth Book introductions indicate what is to come:
"...as you well know, because of its nearness to populous Gray, our choth receives more humans into membership than most."
-Poul Anderson, INTRODUCTION WINGS OF VICTORY IN Anderson, The Van Rijn Method (Riverdale, NY, 2009), pp. 75-77 AT pp. pp. 75-76.
"Arinnian of Stormgate, whose human name is Christopher Holm and who has rendered several Ythrian works into Anglic, prepared this version for the book you behold."
-Poul Anderson, INTRODUCTION (to "A Little Knowledge") IN Anderson, David Falkayn: Star Trader (Riverdale, NY, 2010), pp. 599-600 AT pp. 599-600.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I think the Stormgate Choth was characterized somewhere as being among the most advanced, technology friendly, and more open to strange, no-Ythrian ideas than most choths. If so, that would make it more welcoming and intellectually compatible to human choth members.
Ad astra! Sean
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