In "Wingless," the Weathermaker Choth (scroll down) is an extended household. Peter Berg tells us that Ythrians live in small groups, either single families or extended households, and also mentions, without explaining, "choths."
See:
Families, Households And Choths
Now we are told that one choth, Weathermaker, is identical with an extended household and vice versa. However, choths vary in size and scope so that "Wingless" and Weathermaker do not tell us the whole story of choths but that is as far as we are going to go this evening.
This evening, at our small and informal sf group meeting in the Gregson Institute, two guys said that they were unfamiliar with Isaac Asimov's Foundation books but had appreciated the Foundation TV series online. I replied by extolling Poul Anderson, the Technic History, Ythrians, choths, Khruaths, antlibranches, Oherran, deathpride etc. Let us see all these on screen.
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Kaor, Paul!
Considering how dissatisfied I became with Asimov's colorless and flat prose by 1975 I am not surprised many SF readers today are not familiar with his original FOUNDATION books. Asimov seldom wrote prose that was striking and likely to stay in one's mind.
I have sometimes recommended to possible first-time readers of Anderson that they start with what were basically non-series books like THE HIGH CRUSADE and THREE HEARTS AND THREE LIONS. If available, THE LONG WAY HOME and THE ENEMY STARS might also be good introductions to Anderson, among his earlier works. My idea being that the complexities of a long series like the Technic stories might be a bit off-putting to some first-time readers of Anderson.
Ad astra! Sean
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