Re: "Drakon" by S. M. Stirling

In article <v4q2cs$ss0s$1@dont-email.me>,
 Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

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:
>

On 6/15/2024 10:03 AM, Robert Woodward wrote:

In article <ld5kflFu232U1@mid.individual.net>,
    ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) wrote:
>

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.
>

>
No.  There is nobody (including the author) rooting for the Draka.
They are portrayed as awful and evil.  However, sometimes evil wins.

>
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).
>
*For values of "extremely unlikely" equal to a successful Operation
Sealion (Nazi Germany invasion of Great Britain in 1940).
>

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....

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

>
Depends on how you feel about the Drakas unifying the continent of
Africa under their iron hand in the middle 1800s.
>

 
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 ?
 

No, I meant Americans. The Draka had to run rampant over a larger area
with drastically fewer people than USA did and had in the 19th century.

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.
 

Since I am utterly unconvinced in the plausibility of the timeline he
offered on how this was done; I don't care about his opinion on the
matter. I am speaking of abrupt un-suspension of willing suspension of
disbelief.

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.

Where is your source for the extent of George Washington's wealth? I
don't believe it. I don't think he was even 3% of Virgina's economy.

--
"We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_.
—-----------------------------------------------------
Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com