Re: "Drakon" by S. M. Stirling

On 6/17/2024 11:49 AM, Robert Woodward wrote:

In article <v4o33o$ab71$1@dont-email.me>,
  Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
 

On 6/16/2024 11:48 AM, Robert Woodward wrote:

In article <v4kj0l$3ifm5$1@dont-email.me>,
   Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
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On 6/15/2024 10:03 AM, Robert Woodward wrote:

In article <ld5kflFu232U1@mid.individual.net>,
    ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) wrote:
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In article <v4k3d5$3fg9u$1@dont-email.me>,
Robert Carnegie  <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote:

So is this series basically Nazi fanfiction?
I can do without that.
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No.  There is nobody (including the author) rooting for the Draka.
They are portrayed as awful and evil.  However, sometimes evil wins.

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Except that the timeline in the appendix to the first novel, _Marching
Through Georgia_, contained many events that I consider to be
extraordinarily unlikely* (even assuming that the unlikely previous
events happened).
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*For values of "extremely unlikely" equal to a successful Operation
Sealion (Nazi Germany invasion of Great Britain in 1940).
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In partial mitigation extremely unlikely things have happened in
reality.  Also the point of the books was a dystopia as horrible as the
author could manage so....

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There is a difference between "improbable" and "implausible". IMHO, many
events in the Draka timeline look implausible.

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Depends on how you feel about the Drakas unifying the continent of
Africa under their iron hand in the middle 1800s.
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 Africa is a big place (it is bigger than North America). It was not
exactly lightly populated. There would had been about an order of
magnitude fewer Draka than Americans. The disease environment would work
in the Draka disfavor. In summary, no way, no how.

Did you mean "an order of magnitude fewer Draka than" AFRICANS ?
S. M. Stirling seems to disagree with you about the Domination of Africa.  Remember, the Domination was all about the enslavement of every other human on Earth for the purposes of the Draka.
And George Washington was one of the richest people on the planet in the middle 1700s.  He was 3% of the economy of the USA.  I suspect that he could have raised the funds to exile the Loyalists to any place that he wanted to.  He chose Canada for most of them.
Lynn