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From: wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman)
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Stories About Underground Resistance Movements
Date: Mon, 12 May 2025 02:07:10 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <20250401c@crcomp.net>, Don  <g@crcomp.net> wrote:
>Ted Nolan wrote:
>> Tony Nance wrote:
>>> James Nicoll wrote:
>>>> Five SFF Stories About Underground Resistance Movements
>>>>
>>>> Taking a stand, while facing overwhelming odds.

>Off the top of my head, both the Heinlein and the Russell occurred to
>me, as well as:

I ignored this when James first posted it, but since it's been
revived, I thought of a few:

- the "Lowlifes" in Julian May's THE MANY-COLORED LAND and THE GOLDEN
TORC
- the viewpoint characters in the second of Mercedes Lackey's four-book
crypto-Egypt fantasy series, ALTA
- also from Lackey and much more recent, BEYOND

I had a couple more in mind but I think they're more on the side of a
revolt, at least as far as the plot goes, rather than a resistance
movement.  BEYOND is maybe borderline, as the "resistance movement" is
mostly background and not exactly proletarian either.

-GAWollman

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