Atheia inducted Kraken into the Allied Planets which explodes my idea that maybe Roan Tom's Kraken-Sassania-Nike alliance had been the basis of the Allied Planets. This story shows us an entirely human-influenced part of the galaxy. Clover has been exported to more planets than anyone knows. The Atheians informed the Krakeners that pines, gulls and rhizobacteria were not native to Kraken. Lokonese lowlanders speak a debased form of their planetary language:
"...which in turn was remotely descended from Anglic." (p. 666)
Back on Gwydion:
"'...Gwydiona stems from a rather archaic dialect of Anglic, closely related to the ancestral English.'"
-The Night Face, p. 635.
(In van Rijn's time, Shakespearean English was called Old Anglic.)
Reading "The Sharing of Flesh," it would be easy to think that there were no other intelligent species in the galaxy.
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Kaor, Paul!
Anderson wrote only four stories set in the post-Imperial era, and one of them, "A Tragedy of Errors," does mention how there were non human mercenaries serving the Pretender trying to overthrow the Sassanian shah Roan Tom was allied to. Albeit indirect, that seems a major role being played by xenosophonts in the background of "Tragedy." That leaves only three stories where it can be said non-humans have no roles at all in the stories. Thought of like that, that does not seem too many, three stories uninfluenced by non-humans.
Ad astra! Sean
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