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| rdfs:comment | - Merseia is a fictional planet and later empire in Poul Anderson's Technic History. In internal chronology, it first appears in "Day of Burning" or "Supernova" (1967) (reprinted in The Earth Book of Stormgate), set in 2433. At this point it is technologically about a century ahead of late-20th-century humanity. The story details how Falkayn, Chee Lan, and Adzel negotiate its salvation from a supernova approximately 4 light-years away. However, the Merseians bitterly resent the methods used by Falkayn and his comrades – specifically their appointing the criminal underworld of Merseia to administer the technology the League will sell them to save them from the effects of the supernova. By the 31st century, the period of the Flandry books (begun in the 1950s), it has grown into an expansionist
- Merseia is a fictional planet in Poul Anderson's Technic History/Ensign Flandry universe. The planet is the home world of the Merseians, a reptilian species saved by agents of the Terran Empire. These agents transfer the technology that is necessary to save the species from the effects of a supernova four light years away to the Gethfennu, organized crime on Merseia. This would be an odd choice but Anderson may have wanted to offer an implicit justification for American support for vile client governments in the Third World in the 1960s.
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| abstract | - Merseia is a fictional planet and later empire in Poul Anderson's Technic History. In internal chronology, it first appears in "Day of Burning" or "Supernova" (1967) (reprinted in The Earth Book of Stormgate), set in 2433. At this point it is technologically about a century ahead of late-20th-century humanity. The story details how Falkayn, Chee Lan, and Adzel negotiate its salvation from a supernova approximately 4 light-years away. However, the Merseians bitterly resent the methods used by Falkayn and his comrades – specifically their appointing the criminal underworld of Merseia to administer the technology the League will sell them to save them from the effects of the supernova. By the 31st century, the period of the Flandry books (begun in the 1950s), it has grown into an expansionistic interstellar empire, the Terran Empire's primary rival. The Merseians remember very well being manipulated by Terran agents and are determined to take revenge. In the novel Ensign Flandry, they are fighting Terra over the planet Starkad, near Betelgeuse.
- Merseia is a fictional planet in Poul Anderson's Technic History/Ensign Flandry universe. The planet is the home world of the Merseians, a reptilian species saved by agents of the Terran Empire. These agents transfer the technology that is necessary to save the species from the effects of a supernova four light years away to the Gethfennu, organized crime on Merseia. This would be an odd choice but Anderson may have wanted to offer an implicit justification for American support for vile client governments in the Third World in the 1960s. The resentful Merseians later develop an expansionist interstellar empire and become the primary rival to the Terran Empire. Blowback.
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