Sun of Suns 5) Analogies

RichardAbbott

Most stories work by letting the reader draw analogies between parts of the story and aspects of the real world. Were there any such here that you spotted?

clash_bowley

Autocratic religious buttholes seem to be all over the place here. And I live in Massachusetts!

Apocryphal

I mentioned the Aubri Mahallan :: Aubrey-Maturin link elsewhere. In general, this whole air-ships age of aether-sail thing is extremely common these days, and seems to have risen with the whole steam-punk fad. This isn't exactly a steam-punk novel, but it certainly has something of that vibe. Apart from the one mention of 'Chinese' this world seems fairly uniform in it's racial/cultural makeup. I don't really mind that, but I noted it.

RichardAbbott

@Apocryphal said:
I mentioned the Aubri Mahallan :: Aubrey-Maturin link elsewhere. In general, this whole air-ships age of aether-sail thing is extremely common these days, and seems to have risen with the whole steam-punk fad. This isn't exactly a steam-punk novel, but it certainly has something of that vibe. Apart from the one mention of 'Chinese' this world seems fairly uniform in it's racial/cultural makeup. I don't really mind that, but I noted it.

There was some discussion of the guys that both Slipstream and Aerie perceive is the real enemy, viz "the cold dictatorship of that notorious bureaucracy". So whatever minor cultural differences there are between the first two named, there are some genuinely different structures out there... though we don't get to see them from the inside in this book. People's reaction to Falcon seemed a bit like that of the Federation to The Borg.

NeilNjae

There was the anti-progress slant, where the embracers of technology were all decadent wierdoes, but the "real men and women" of Virga were thrusting and assertive and heroic by being primitive. Or some tosh like that.

I didn't get any more than that, sorry.