Speaking of the Comyn

[james_davis_nicoll]

If you could overthrow one fictional set of aristocrats and nobles whose creator clearly thinks are the bee's knees, which lot would you pick?

I'm more inclined to be harshest towards the SFnal aristocracies, since they have actual history to have learned from.

Comments

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

But it's only the *liberal* nobility who are really self-centered idiot bad guys there. Many people other than Honor and the Queen are not corrupt, and only a few of the worst are clearly corrupt; the rest are just self-centered and stupid. (Which, when you think about it, is a much more offensive position for the books to take. If they were demonstrating that corruption was nearly universal, arguably they'd be arguing on the right side.)