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[james_davis_nicoll]

As mentioned in comments, Dan Simmons has a dystopic novel coming out.

Canada, used to dividing itself into smaller parts to appease ethnic groups, languages, and claims to prior ownership, [...]

Is that a snipe at Nunavut?

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Yep, and the Catholic crusaders in 1204 did in fact slaughter those who had taken shelter in the church: and the Muslims didn't think to put a prostitute on the imperial seat in the Church, being the sort of low-brow Crusader humor that wouldn't occur to Sultan Mehmet.

Bruce

[(Anonymous)]

Which was indeed my point. I don't think that Simmons thinks of 1204 as a conquest, becuase it's conquest by Christians. That is, if he's heard of 1204.

If only he'd read Robert Silverberg, he'd know so much more.

William Hyde

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

Or if his worldview fit what he reads instead of reading what supports his worldview.

Coincidentally, I'm reading Nightwings.