Re: F&SF that I Read in 2007: W

On May 4, 12:59 pm, wdst...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (William December Starr) wrote:
>
> > Has there ever been an SF book where they didn't?
>
> In a background element in Dan Simmons' HYPERION, the planet on
> which his earlier novella "Remembering Siri" had been set -- that
> story being about the start of a brave rebellion on that colony
> world to maintain its independence[*1] -- was revisited a few
> centuries later and we saw that the rebellion had basically been
> squashed flat without too much trouble.
>
>  *1: In "Remembering Siri" the dominance being resisted was economic
>      and cultural -- "Yes, yes, huge galactic civilization, very
>      nice, no, we don't want any" -- rather than theocratically or
>      otherwise evil, but the theme is the same.

Oh, I'd say it is fairly evil.  They more or less wipe out the
local flora and fauna, barring some examples kept for tourist
purposes, in the run for the planet's natural resources ("no
civilization gets beyond the need for oil").  And their methods of
dealing with dissent wind up being fairly genocidal.

Another example (faint memory here) might be from Poul Anderson's "The
Enemy Stars" in which Earth's colony worlds
feel rather oppressed.  Anderson implies that the spoiler at the end
of the novel will eventually lead to the end of this, but we don't see
it happen.

William Hyde