About Doug Hoff's Empty America
May. 7th, 2009 10:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
james_davis_nicollI can't seem to find the first entry. What prevented anyone from migrating to the New World before the Vikings?
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If you prevent anyone from coming over the top of the world it won't prevent the Polynesians from colonizing the Americas (Sweet potatoes got to Polynesia from the New World Somehow). Well, it won't unless you have extremely well aimed butterflies, able to use the secondary and tertiary effects of whatever the barrier to colonization is up north to prevent anyone from using the trans-Pacific route.
[Answered in comments: It's not specified in the initial post]
If you prevent anyone from coming over the top of the world it won't prevent the Polynesians from colonizing the Americas (Sweet potatoes got to Polynesia from the New World Somehow). Well, it won't unless you have extremely well aimed butterflies, able to use the secondary and tertiary effects of whatever the barrier to colonization is up north to prevent anyone from using the trans-Pacific route.
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Date: 2009-05-08 03:10 am (UTC)Reminds me of the review of The Yiddish Policemen's Union in The Jerusalem Post, as discussed by Abigail Nussbaum.
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Date: 2009-05-08 07:21 am (UTC)I think the political aspect of Chabon's Union -- the criticism of the Zionist project, which supporters of that project might object to -- was intentional. I haven't read Patricia Wrede's Thirteenth Child, but Jo Walton's review makes it sound like the possibly offensive aspect was just a side-effect of Wrede's other decisions.