Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Works Featuring Nameless Protagonists

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De : wollman (at) *nospam* hergotha.csail.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman)
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Date : 26. Jun 2024, 18:55:31
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In article <v5h7d7$ln9$1@reader1.panix.com>,
James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
Five SFF Works Featuring Nameless Protagonists
>
What's in a name?
>
https://reactormag.com/five-sff-works-featuring-nameless-protagonists/

I immediately think of The Captain in Saunders' Commonweal.  It's not
a military thing -- all the other Standard-Captains have names.  In
Book 5 one of the other graul explains that they all, as a people,
decided to excommunicate The Captain for accepting an officer's
commission, and consider The Captain to be nameless, although this
fails to explain why The Captain wouldn't still consider themself to
have the name they were given originally.  (Given what the same book
reveals about graul reproduction it's unclear how they get their names
in the first place, or if they even know who their parents are.
Perhaps that will be revealed in book 6, if one is ever published.)

-GAWollman

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Date Sujet#  Auteur
26 Jun 24 * (ReacTor) Five SFF Works Featuring Nameless Protagonists20James Nicoll
26 Jun 24 +* Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Works Featuring Nameless Protagonists15Tony Nance
26 Jun 24 i+- Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Works Featuring Nameless Protagonists1ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan
27 Jun 24 i+* Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Works Featuring Nameless Protagonists4Michael F. Stemper
27 Jun 24 ii`* Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Works Featuring Nameless Protagonists3Chris Buckley
29 Jun 24 ii `* Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Works Featuring Nameless Protagonists2Michael F. Stemper
29 Jun 24 ii  `- Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Works Featuring Nameless Protagonists1Paul S Person
6 Jul 24 i+* Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Works Featuring Nameless Protagonists6Lynn McGuire
7 Jul 24 ii`* Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Works Featuring Nameless Protagonists5Michael F. Stemper
7 Jul 24 ii `* Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Works Featuring Nameless Protagonists4ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan
7 Jul 24 ii  `* Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Works Featuring Nameless Protagonists3Dimensional Traveler
8 Jul 24 ii   +- Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Works Featuring Nameless Protagonists1ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan
8 Jul 24 ii   `- Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Works Featuring Nameless Protagonists1Jerry Brown
6 Jul 24 i+* Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Works Featuring Nameless Protagonists2Lynn McGuire
9 Jul 24 ii`- Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Works Featuring Nameless Protagonists1Default User
8 Jul 24 i`- Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Works Featuring Nameless Protagonists1Tony Nance
26 Jun 24 +- Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Works Featuring Nameless Protagonists1Garrett Wollman
26 Jun 24 +- Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Works Featuring Nameless Protagonists1Lynn McGuire
26 Jun 24 +- Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Works Featuring Nameless Protagonists1Christian Weisgerber
27 Jun 24 `- Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Works Featuring Nameless Protagonists1Don

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