Imagine reading "Windmill" by Poul Anderson in Saving Worlds (later reissued as The Wounded Planet). The text begins in mid-sentence because it is an extract from a letter written by the viewpoint character. There are indications that "Windmill" is a third Maurai story, which would be appropriate for this themed anthology:
Calforni
gasbag-powered air flight
characters called Taupo and Wairo
sarongs
ruined Losanglis
Merican lords
"...we Sea People..." (p. 140)
- and, at last, an explicit reference to "...the happy islands of the Maurai Federation." (ibid.)
Asked for an ecological story, Poul Anderson kills two birds with one stone by adding to his Maurai History just as, later, asked for a Knights Templar story, he adds to his Time Patrol series.
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Kaor, Paul!
That bit about "...the happy islands of the Maurai Federation" would seem irritatingly smug if we did not also recall the narrator was warned by the man he defeated that the Maurai would not forever be so dominant.
Ad astra! Sean
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