Reading the Maurai short stories, we are plunged into a dense future history. Two hundred years before "Progress":
the Maurai used multi-masted hemaphrodite sea craft;
the Mericans had no anti-catalyst for the hydrogen in their blimps;
the Hinjan subcontinent suffered chaotic folk migrations.
Now, radically designed new Maurai ships use automatic instruments and computers and the Beneghali Brahmads travel in blimps. The symbol of the Brahmad scientocracy is a golden Siva, signifying destruction and rebirth, whereas the Maurai flag is the Cross and Stars: old symbols in new settings.
The Maurai series is much shorter than other future histories but more concentrated.
Brahmads remind us of Hinduraj in the Carthaginian timeline of the Time Patrol universe and in SM Stirling's Emberverse.
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"Hinduraj" is a logical post-apocalyptic development. Also I stole it from Poul.
When you steal, steal from the best! 8-).
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
I don't remember "Hinduraj" in any your stories, however. Did you mean the Angrezi Raj of your novel THE PESHAWAR LANCERS?
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
Hinduraj is in Emberverse. See the link to my posts on Hinduraj.
Paul.
Yup, Hinduraj in the Emberverse. I even had a real contemporary Indian Hindu-nationalist figure as its first Maharaja -- one of the advantages of an alternate history branching off in 1998 is that you can have contemporary figures doing things in it without any contradiction when that doesn't happen in -this- history.
Kaor, Paul and Mr. Stirling!
Dang! I forgot there was a Hinduraj in the Emberverse series.
Ad astra! Sean
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