During the Terran War, all Avalonians, both human and Ythrian, are anti-Terran. However, the term, "Terran," can also be applied to species:
"This is the tale, told afresh, of how Avalon came to settlement and thus our choth to being. This is the tale as told not be Rennhi and those on whom she drew for the Sky Book, but by Terrans who walk the earth."
-Poul Anderson, INTRODUCTION WINGS OF VICTORY IN Anderson, The Van Rijn Method (Riverdale, NY, December 2009), pp. 75-77 AT p. 77.
The Sky Book is told by Ythrians; the Earth Book by human beings.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Not quite. I recall mention in THE PEOPLE OF THE WIND of how some humans on Avalon would not have minded too much if the Empire had annexed that planet. So it was not "all" humans.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
Indeed. During a war, there is perhaps an official assumption that the entire population is anti-(fill in the blank) but this can never be the case.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
I agree, even tho some causes deserve no support at all, such as Communism and Nazism. Stalin and Hitler should never have gotten any loyalty in WW II.
Ad astra! Sean
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