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OtherRealms Issue 20 Part 05
Electronic OtherRealms #20
Spring, 1988
Part 5
Triplet
Timothy Zahn
Baen Books, 369pp, $3.95
[****]
Reviewed by
Danny Low
hplabs!dlow
Copyright 1988 by Danny Low
The title refers to three planets (Threshold, Shamsheer and Karyx) with
some unique qualities that are also know as the Hidden Worlds. To
start, they are connected by a tunnel that is some sort of
transporter. Threshold is a planet that has been blasted lifeless but
Shamsheer is a world where there is a very advanced science that is
indistinguishable from magic and Karyx is a world where spirits are
real and can be made to perform work for people with magical spells. In
addition, the people of Shamsheer and Karyx appear to be real humans
beings and not just humanoid. The level of technology demonstrated by
the tunnels and the gadgets in Shamsheer are way beyond that of the
Twenty Worlds but the people of Shamsheer and Karyx are unaware of the
tunnels and the technology that makes their worlds work. It's all
literally magic to them.
The Twenty Worlds, once they realized what they had found, quarantined
the planets and restricted access to it, mainly to study teams although
some limited tourism is allowed. Danae Panya is a spoiled rich brat who
wants nothing more than to escape from the smothering protective arm of
her very rich and powerful father. She sees a study trip to the Hidden
Worlds as a means to establish herself as an independent person. The
story is basically a mystery disguised as an adventure story.
Actually, there are several mysteries in this story and in one way or
another, all are solved or have plausible theories brought forth about
them. The background mystery is who created the Hidden Worlds and why.
The foreground mystery is what is happening on Karyx? The story is a
well handled mystery. The appropriate clues are dropped throughout the
story. While there are not too many red herrings, the clues are also
not obvious. Incidents and knowledge that appear to be mere background
detail often turn out to be important.
For those who like exciting action packed adventure, this book will not
disappoint them once the story gets underway. Unfortunately, the first
third of the story is taken up with introductory material for the story
but once things get underway, it's full throttle action. Those who
expect another science fictional chop sockey super ninja story like
Zahn's Cobra series will be disappointed. This is not a martial arts
story. Zahn has thought out not only the details but the implication of
his story situation. The story proceeds in a logical fashion. The
obstacles faced by the main characters are resolved in a logical
fashion. There are a few cases where Zahn does explain something after
the fact but these are minor. The plotting is very tight. There are no
extraneous expositions inserted to show off the author's creation. This
is always a potential problem when an author has created a well though
out universe. The temptation to show off the creation at the expense of
the story can be too much for some authors.
In the end, the foreground mystery is solved but there is only a
suggestion of a solution to the background mystery. Yes, there is a
possibility of sequels but the story in this book is complete and does
not require a sequel. This book is the best novel produced by Zahn so
far and is significantly superior to his previous work.
The Stars Like Islands
Steve Bellovin
ulysses!smb
Copyright 1988 by Steve Bellovin
It's the oldest plot in the galaxy -- without warning, Our Hero swoops
down from hyperspace and liberates a planet from the clutches of an
Evildoer. Time after time, this happens, until the Evildoer's empire is
reeling. Great! But does this make any sense at all? Is it really
conceivable that a single planet can be liberated that easily, let
alone several of them? Let's take a closer look, by focusing on the
one inhabited planet we really know something about: Earth.
The first conclusion we come to is that a planet is really a very large
place. Think of how many distinct cultures inhabit our planet, and how
many different economies exist. Think how long it takes any one nation
to conquer another, as a rule. Now multiply this by N, for an entire
planet. How many troops would it take? How many spaceships would be
needed to carry these armies? Is it possible? Probably, especially if
the attacker's technology is far ahead of the defender's. But if
they're at all close, the defender is drawing on a population of
billions, with essentially unlimited resources and power. In that
situation, conquest is likely to be extremely difficult indeed.
Why, then, is the plot so common? The answer, I claim, lies in the
mental model authors use, consciously or not. To them, star systems are
not composed of entire worlds; rather, each is more or less the size of
an island. Fleets of starships are really fleets of battleships -- or
perhaps outrigger canoes, for the spaceship and sword folks. The vast
reaches of hyperspace are really the vast stretches of an ocean. And
the galaxy -- yes, the Milky Way, composed of the proverbial billions
and billions of stars -- is really about the size of Planet Earth.
(Another possible analogy is city-states, rather than islands; the
problem of traversing space seems to be more like crossing a sea,
though. Most authors seem to agree, or we'd have fewer space navies and
more space armies.)
Let's take a look at some stories. Perhaps the best place to start is
with Asimov's Foundation series. In it, we are told, the emperor
sometimes travels to the "summer planets." Planets? More than one? Each
of which has both summer and winter at any one time? Granted, this is a
very decadent emperor, but it still seems a bit extreme. Elsewhere, a
general describes a strategy of "englobement." Now, this makes eminent
sense if we are looking at a single battle between opposing fleets. But
here, we are talking about surrounding a large number of star systems!
Take any reasonable estimate for the median interstellar distance. Then
calculate just how many star systems are contained in, say, a sphere
100 light years across. Does it sound plausible to capture even the
perimeter? (We won't even ask what good it does to hold that perimeter;
given the apparent state of detection gear in that universe, sneaking
between two stars a few light years apart should be no trouble at all,
even for a large fleet.) Oh, well -- at least Asimov realized he had to
generalize "encirclement" into the third dimension. (We have some
external evidence, too. Asimov himself has written that his theme came
from the decline of the Roman Empire.)
The classic example, of course, is "Doc" Smith's Lensman series. To
Smith, every planet has a single culture. None of the inhabitants of
Lyrane II have any concept of beauty. Klovia is a giant banana
republic, with the coup d'etat formalized as the mechanism for transfer
of power. And Lonabar is Al Capone's Chicago.
Let us conclude by looking at Schmitz's "The Witches of Karres." In it,
we are told of the "Megair Cannibals" -- beings who use spaceships to
waylay other spaceships, and then eat their crews. These cannibals, it
seems, occupy a star cluster. But please -- it's only a small cluster...
Do any authors get the scale right? Some do, though the number is far
from impressive. In some senses, Smith does; when he wants a massive
fleet, he really does multiply the number of planets involved by some
constant, and accepts the huge number that results. (Of course, for
space opera huge numbers are better.) And he notes the difficult any
ship has attacking a fortified base on a planet, though he concentrates
mostly on energy availability.
Another good example is Pournelle's Co-Dominium series. His planets are
(mercifully) finite in number, his hyperspace drive is carefully
designed so that strategic locations exist, and his political
structures seem commensurate with the scale of his empires. There are
failings -- the planetary cultures seem too homogenous -- but that can
probably be justified, as discussed below.
Poul Anderson probably does the best overall job of handling galaxy-
sized empires. In fact, in several of his books he calculates just how
many stars and planets are involved. As with Pournelle, the political
structures he employs do scale; there is no pretense that the Emperor
can keep track of every planet's troubles, for example, and the
bureaucracy is portrayed as an almost-insurmountable obstacle in an
empire of that volume. Best of call, several of his stories (i.e., "The
Man Who Counts" or "Tigry by the Tail") turn on planets having more
than one culture.
Before we are too harsh on our favorite authors, let us consider
whether there is any justification for their apparent failings. Are
they right to assume, say, that most planets are monocultural? In some
cases, that may indeed be a defensible assumption, though I'm not
really convinced. Still, there are several ways in which such a
situation can arise.
The first, and perhaps most likely way, is when the planets in question
are colonies started by a small, distinct group. (We'll ignore the
question of whether or not it makes sense to claim an entire planet as
a single colony; nations have done stranger things, and there are some
political advantages to trying.) In any event, Pournelle uses this
argument; his (and Niven's) planet of New Caledonia was settled by
Scots, for example.
Some authors (Niven, for example) claim that high-bandwidth
communications and transport mechanisms can homegenize a culture. This
is certainly true to some extent, but one can argue how far it will
go. There is a countervailing tendency, whereby distinct cultural
groups try to maintain their own identity. Just walking through
Brooklyn, one can find more distinct subcultures than the average
author has in a galaxy.
Finally one can argue that biology is destiny. Perhaps Smith's
Eddorians really are evil and treacherous by nature, and their culture
couldn't turn out any different. Perhaps -- but until more authors stop
turning out "aliens with zipper suits" -- pull down the zipper and a
human being pops out -- I'll remain a skeptic.
Guardians of the Flame
The Sleeping Dragon
The Sword and the Chain
The Silver Crown
The Heir Apparent
Joel Rosenberg
Signet, $2.95 each
[***-]
Reviewed by
David M. Shea
Copyright 1988 by David M. Shea
Like Yossarian's fish, I have ambivalent feelings about this series.
The premise is one I regard as fundamentally unsound: the game players
trapped in the world of their game. This has generally resulted in such
one-dimensional works as the stupefyingly boring Tron. Even Andre
Norton couldn't do much with this notion (Quag Keep, regarded even by
faithful fans as one of her lesser efforts). Also, Joel Rosenberg seems
to have hit every standard fantasy item along the way; elves, dwarves,
dragons, wizards, magical spells.... Well, lets be fair, I don't recall
any unicorns. There is also a great deal of graphic violence. The
author tells us any number of times, with a sort of sadistic glee,
about how the anal sphincters relax at death. One such reminder would
have been ample for this reader.
However, there is also much to like about these books. Rosenberg's
characters are all fully developed, credible people with believable
motivations. His prose is crisp and vigorous, not cluttered with the
rhetorical gimcrackery, pseudo-medieval dialogue and interminable
strings of adjectives which bog down so much contemporary fantasy. Even
better, he knows how to get on with telling a story, surely a prime
requisite for a fiction writer.
In the first volume, a group of American college students find their
harmless game of D&D interrupted when they are suddenly catapulted into
the world of the game. Their natural attempt is to get back to their
own familiar continuum, in the face of numerous obstacles, is the bulk
of the first volume. In the process, they suffer a fatality. On the
Other Side, even death need not be permanent; so the companions decide
to go back again and salvage their friend's life. This forms the basis
of the second book. Even in a magical realm, however, reversing the
death does not come cheaply; and in the course of acquiring the price,
they run afoul of the local slave-traders. The abuses suffered at the
slavers' hands are such that Karl, the group's leader, vows to stay and
wipe out slavery no matter how long it takes. The others decide to join
the abolitionist movement also. (These things come easier when you have
a tame dragon on your side). By the third book, having come into
conflict with the local barons as well, they come to the reasonable
conclusion that the best way to change government policy is to take
over the government.
The fourth volume begins some twenty years later. Karl and his group,
and their many local followers an allies, have become a power to be
reckoned with; but an arch-enemy slaver hasn't given up on revenging
himself on Karl and his family. Karl's son Jason, now sixteen, is an
obvious target; and to protect him, Karl and the others must stage a
violent showdown with all their lives on the line.
No one is going to mistake this material for, say, The Book of the New
Sun; but on the other hand, it's several cuts above the routine
bad-Tolkien-imitation swill which infests the market. If you're
looking for some good old-fashioned sword-and-sorcery adventure with
lots of (occasionally gory) action, you could do a lot worse. The
entire series is in print as well.
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Velocities #5. Bruce Boston, ed. From Box 5293, Berkeley, CA 94705.
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Weird Tales, Spring 1988. Terminus Publishing, Box 13418, Philadelphia,
PA, 19101-3418. Quarterly, $18/six issues. Latest incarnation
of the pulp magazine, edited by George Scithers, Darrell
Schweitzer and John Betancourt. This issue is a Gene Wolfe
special issue, with about half the material by or about the
author.
YHOS #42. Art Widner, Ed. Irregular from 231 Courtney Land, Orinda, CA
94563 for the regular.
OtherRealms #20
Spring, 1988
Copyright 1988 by Chuq Von Rospach
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