"'...I'd like to forestall any notion you guys may have gotten about heading straight for Kandemir and doing a kamikaze dive onto their main city.'
"'They don't have a main city.' Bowman giggled again." (2, p. 17)
Right. Aliens are different and do not necessarily have cities or anything else that we take for granted. In the Technic History, Ythrians do not have cities so do they have a civilization? Their lack of a government to restrain their pioneers causes friction with Terra. In After Doomsday, from what I remember, the Kandemirians will turn out to be technological nomads. History takes very different directions on different planets. Talking about civilization, it is time for me to go and vote in a local City Council election. Excuse me while I go and do some real life.
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"technological nomads"
Like the humans who lived on Altai?
I do need to find a copy of "After Doomsday". I don't recall ever reading it, but your discussion makes it sound well worth reading.
Jim,
Maybe a bit like the Altaians. AFTER DOOMSDAY is well worth reading.
Paul.
Kaor, Jim!
As Paul said, AFTER DOOMSDAY is very much worth reading!
Yes, the high tech nomads of Kandemir do have some resemblances to the Altaians of "A Message in Secret, except for the latter planet having one true city.
Ad astra! Sean
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