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The Bob Cesca Show: Very Weapons Talented

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Blind Frog Belly White2/23/2018 3:10:25 pm PST

re: #131 William Lewis

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.

Going back and remembering the Niven and Pournelle books, I think Pournelle had an unhealthy influence on them. I suspect Pournelle had the usual wingnut axes to grind - journalists, liberals, feminists, anybody not white - and always manages to make them into the enemy. Or AN enemy.