"'You know that there is an interplanetary conference in progress?'
"She answered smugly, 'I make it a rule never to pay attention to politics.'"
-The Star Beast, CHAPTER XIV, p. 142.
Lewis the fictional character and first person narrator as opposed to Lewis the author reflects that he and his fictional friend Ransom:
"...were both getting more and more involved in what I could only describe as inter-planetary politics."
-CS Lewis, Perelandra IN Lewis, The Cosmic Trilogy (London, 1990), pp. 145-348 AT 1, p. 150.
And there are interstellar politics in Anderson's Technic History as when the Merseians regard diplomacy as continuation of war by other means.
We need only add, before retiring for the night - it is after midnight again - that Lewis' "interplanetary politics," like Heinlein's, involve Earth, Mars and Venus but otherwise are completely different!
But read all three authors.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I expect human beings and other intelligent races to have politics, and diplomacy is simply how nations conduct politics with each other. They are the means chosen, short of the use of violence, for handling disputes and conflicts. With organized violence, war, being the final and ultimate arbiter of conflicts.
Merry Christmas! Sean
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