-"The Troublemakers," p. 111.
In the following story, a Planetary Engineer thinks of himself as:
"...a soldier in man's finest war, the fight of all men against a blind and indifferent nature which had brought their kind forth without caring."
-Poul Anderson, "The Snows of Ganymede" IN Anderson, The Complete Psychotechnic League (Riverdale, NY, February 2018), pp. 141-214 AT I, p. 142.
We have two enemies. The other is within and is addressed in "Un-Man" and "The Sensitive Man."
A Nazi and a Zionist, stranded on the surface of Ganymede, would have to cooperate to survive. Far enough away, Terrestrial divisions become invisible. The common enemy is space and nature.
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Kaor, Paul!
I hesitate at PERSONALIZING "nature" like that. The universe is neither hostile or blind, it simply exists. Our job is simply to cope with it, as best we can.
A piquant thought, a Nazi and Zionist, stranded on Ganymede and forced to cooperate for survival--despite mutual detestation!
Ad astra! Sean
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