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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five Stories About Aliens Attempting to Govern Humans
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2025 08:37:05 -0800
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On Mon, 6 Jan 2025 15:09:36 -0500, William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com>
wrote:

>James Nicoll wrote:
>> Five Stories About Aliens Attempting to Govern Humans
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>> Maybe conquering humans is a bad idea?
>>=20
>> =
https://reactormag.com/five-stories-about-aliens-attempting-to-govern-hum=
ans/
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>Two that have been discussed here earlier are Dickson's "The Way of the=20
>Pilgrim" and Silverberg's "The Alien years".
>
>In the former we convince the Aliens that we are not worthy of their=20
>rule, in the latter the Aliens leave for reasons of their own. Despite a=
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>plethora of plucky J. W. Campbell types and a Heinlein clone, we do not=20
>force them to leave.

Which was why I found /The Alien Years/ to be ... ultimately
pointless.
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"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"