re: #128 Blind Frog Belly White
Yeah, but they were The Few, The Proud, The White….
I always hated Pournelle’s massive royalty fetish too.
After reading his famous novels, I concluded that his favorite world would be a technocratic, white supremacist, apartheid utilizing monarchy where the king had at least as much free hand as Elizabeth 1. If parliament existed at all, it would be for biz owners to keep the proles in line. I think Footfall was the last of his fantasies I bought.