This morning over breakfast: starting to reread Jerry Pournelle, The Mercenary.
Purpose: to reassess Pournelle's future history, especially in comparison with Heinlein's and Anderson's.
General impression so far: Anderson wrote about future civilizations, including their wars, whereas Pournelle wrote about future wars.
Continuing to reread: Poul Anderson, The Peregrine.
Continuing to read: Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse novels ( a welcome return to recent Britain).
Got to go: a coach to catch.
Back here laterz.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
The background to Pournelle's Falkenberg stories was the decay of the Co-Dominium and its failure to establish a stable, long lasting socio-political system on Earth and the colonies. What Pournelle did was to analyze/draw out what he believed would be the logical consequences of that failure.
Ad astra! Sean
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