Re: [WorldofGlorantha] Re: Trader Princes question

From: Paolo Guccione <p.guccione_at_nUdyZ6jzRxONbALtpPGxuxmxhY_57o-JfWlG-kT2eaxw2P4pAw0r9L0RdUCoR9D7vAxp>
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:10:42 +0200

The Last Castle (by Vance) is about terrans who rely on alien slaves for menial labour, and what happens when the slaves rebel. It has clearly some relationship to Wenelia as described. Northeastern Europe could be another good parallel. But Glorantha has many areas where Malkioni nobles rule over "pagan" lands, so the Rus or Teuton Knight parallel applies not only to Wenelia.

>>  The Man in the High Castle by Jack Vance was of some 
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>>> inspiration to the Trader Princes to Nick Brook and I have to 
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> agree -
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>>> excellent book about isolated communities surrounded by Other.
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>> Is that "The Man in the High Castle" by Philip K. Dick?  Or did Vance
>> write a book with a similar title?
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> Vance wrote a story entitled "The Last Castle". I haven't read the Dick
> novel, but from what I gather it's set in a timeline in which the Axis
> won World War II, which doesn't sound much like Wenelia
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