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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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Subject: Re: Two stories containing search for thumb on scales
Date: 11 Jun 2025 13:43:26 GMT
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In article <pan$16a67$e390fcd6$c09f2302$f3343967@cpacker.org>,
Charles Packer  <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:
>A recent thread mentioned the "Foundation" character Arkady Darell.
>That brought to mind Jean Morrel in A.C. Clarke's "Childhood's
>End." Both women are instrumental in locating the home bases of
>totalitarian powers that orchestrate events. (Their names even
>have a similar ring: Darell/Morrel.) This raises the question:
>Is there anyplace else in SF literature besides Asimov and
>Clarke that feature remote, vaguely-defined powerful entities the 
>sussing out of which are a preoccupation of some of the characters?
>I guess this could be considered a subset of stories that
>feature any type of decoding of mysteries.

There was Chap Fooey Rider who sussed out the existence of the
Galactic Postal Union in Hayford Peirce's "Mail Supremacy".
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