Re: Anyone read Stirling's latest?

On Jul 20, 4:03=A0pm, prestorjon <prestor...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> Of course many of the subalterns in Draka are white, but that doesn't
> negate the racial aspect here. =A0With the exception of the USCG
> commander in ISOT, who notably rejects much of her racial
> identification, ...

Does she?

Allston clearly rejects a lot of the "racial identification" that
_left-wing urban black radicals_ want to equipe her with, but she
seems to be practicing her _own_ ethnic culture -- which is from a
particular South Carolinan subculture -- just fine.

>... there aren't any non-white leads that I can think of
> in Stirling's works. =A0Those non-white characters who exist are mostly
> cyphers. =A0They have no real personality of their own, concerns of
> their own, goals of their own. =A0They just exist as extensions of the
> white protagonists willpower and an example of the dominance of
> western, mostly white, people over non-western non white peoples

The Final Society Draka are only "white" in the vaguest possible sense
-- they aren't even part of our _species_ any more.  Likewise the
Martians aren't _homo sapiens_ either.

You are straining too hard to shove S. M. Stirling into the pigeonhole
you have prepared for him.  He doesn't fit.

- Jordan