Tuesday, 8 September 2026

Changes On Rustum

Poul Anderson, "To Promote the General Welfare" IN Anderson, New America (New York, December 1982), pp. 117-157.

Changes on Rustum:

a Constitutional Convention has been in session although now recessed for the midwinter holiday which still involves trimming a tree;

Eva Coffin has died and Daniel, as he is known at the Convention, is white-haired;

his big house at Lake Moondance had been empty until his eldest granddaughter, her husband and their children moved in;

improved transportation in the lowlands has made it possible to centralize control over vast family holdings so that a unified household with domestic staff makes sense. 

We have come a long way with the Rustumites but we in this Lancastrian household will go no further with them this evening. Instead, for me: our daughter's homemade soup and Stieg Larsson.

Ad astra.

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