Via @parabasis an old Isaac Asimov critique of Orwell's 1984: http://www.newworker.org/ncptrory/1984.htm …
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Not if the Empire had a monopoly on wormhole technology.
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If only another iconic sci-fi series had the same premise.
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Asimov's Galactic Empire, and its collapse in the Foundation series, was modeled overtly on Roman history, just across a larger area.
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Right -- but distances on earth are not anything like distances between stars.
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Suspect not much. Wld like to read Niven-class story incorp'ing galactic empire with current AI or better tech w/o layering on 1975 society.
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Le Guin solves that problem with the ansible, allowing communications between centers of power and their colonies.
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Real-time communication, I should have said.
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Even with ansibles & FTL drives?
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Science fiction - the clue is in the name.
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