Sujet : Re: (ReacTor) Five Stories About Aliens Attempting to Govern Humans
De : psperson (at) *nospam* old.netcom.invalid (Paul S Person)
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On Mon, 6 Jan 2025 15:09:36 -0500, William Hyde <
wthyde1953@gmail.com>
wrote:
James Nicoll wrote:
Five Stories About Aliens Attempting to Govern Humans
Maybe conquering humans is a bad idea?
https://reactormag.com/five-stories-about-aliens-attempting-to-govern-humans/
Two that have been discussed here earlier are Dickson's "The Way of the
Pilgrim" and Silverberg's "The Alien years".
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In the former we convince the Aliens that we are not worthy of their
rule, in the latter the Aliens leave for reasons of their own. Despite a
plethora of plucky J. W. Campbell types and a Heinlein clone, we do not
force them to leave.
Which was why I found /The Alien Years/ to be ... ultimately
pointless.
-- "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,Who evil spoke of everyone but God,Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"
(ReacTor) Five Stories About Aliens Attempting to Govern Humans
Re: (ReacTor) Five Stories About Aliens Attempting to Govern Humans
