tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post7758488722098531591..comments2024-03-29T09:09:24.834+00:00Comments on Poul Anderson Appreciation: Kinds Of Interstellar AdversariesKetlanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08588156788583883454noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-2726405974388665232017-05-22T15:17:27.724+01:002017-05-22T15:17:27.724+01:00Kaor, Paul and DAVID!
Thanks! Since I've read...Kaor, Paul and DAVID!<br /><br />Thanks! Since I've read DUNE more than once, I should have remembered how melange conferred on the Navigator Guild "pilots", for finding the best ways to avoid dangers and arrive at the desired goals.<br /><br />Yes, the Butlerian Jihad of the millennia before DUNE not only destroyed computer technology but also must have crippled long range sensing technology.<br /><br />I would like to have known more about what kind of FTL drive the people in DUNE used. Possibly by Paul Atreides time men only knew how to build FTL ships, not how the drive WORKS? That might have been one consequence of the anti computer jihad.<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-31926197811746980672017-05-22T11:11:51.042+01:002017-05-22T11:11:51.042+01:00By the way, I find "Hegemony of Malis" (...By the way, I find "Hegemony of Malis" (Malice) to be a very suggestive name regarding their attitudes.David Birrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08973889429164886381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-56832622890619195502017-05-22T11:09:36.408+01:002017-05-22T11:09:36.408+01:00Sean:
Yeah, as Paul said, melange had capabilities...Sean:<br />Yeah, as Paul said, melange had capabilities beyond extending life. When he says "the right route," he means the safest, not simply the most direct; the prescience that came from melange warned Navigators of dangers their eyes couldn't. (The anti-computer "jihad" centuries earlier also probably crippled the development and use of long-range sensor technology.)David Birrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08973889429164886381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-31003878517501153872017-05-22T07:39:19.781+01:002017-05-22T07:39:19.781+01:00Sean,
The drug bestowed prescience, enabling Navig...Sean,<br />The drug bestowed prescience, enabling Navigators to find the right route through space.<br />Paul.paulshackley2017@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17704115766930975286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-29982998866812720512017-05-22T02:49:39.730+01:002017-05-22T02:49:39.730+01:00And what does the Malan Confederation do about rac...And what does the Malan Confederation do about races which refuse to even request to join it? <br /><br />And we see conflict as well in Frank Herbert's DUNE. And an interstellar empire ruled by House Corrino. Altho I'm puzzled at how a life extending spice, melange, was also used to somehow pilot star ships using an unexplained FTL drive.<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.com