Rare depiction of winners of a nuclear war! Monarchy returns to post-apocalypse Russia, and then somehow they get to super advanced tech despite authoritarian thought control. Tries too hard to be lyrical about nuclear holocaust. Patches the gap in nonaggression with religious dogma: all obey the anti-monopoly priests. Yet another anarchism, but with true aliens this time. How could anarchism resist invasion?: By being too expensive to conquer.Ģ. Great fun but not as mind-bending as Egan or Chiang or Borges or Vinge.ġ. To date, "The Accomplice" is the most irritating combination of embarrassing gaffes and neat insights that I have ever created." "The quality of the writing is about average for what I could manage in the 1960s. The main intellectual success is his depiction of anarchism, as stable, unstable, predatory, kind, natural, or requiring unnatural underpinning. He really hits his stride halfway through this, 1980. This is not surprising when you realise that the earliest of these was written when he was a teenager. But overall not as stunning as his novels, even accounting for scale. As always with him, there are grand gears turning in the background of his stories: there's more to his worlds than we see, and reasons beyond what the characters reason. More playful and miscellaneous than I was expecting.
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