Thanks to the efforts of one Don Reba, the kingdom now has a secret police, the Grey Guard, as bad as the NKVD or SAVAK, and the reign of terror aimed at intellectuals that followed its formation has convinced Don Rumata that Reba must be a singular individual outside the norms of Basis Theory, someone whose existence clearly calls for extreme measures. To Don Rumata’s alarm, Basis Theory seems to have broken down where Arkanar is concerned. Interference is absolutely banned worlds must be allowed to develop at their own pace.Įarth’s Basis Theory maps out how societies behave and will develop or at least it is supposed to. His job is to mingle with the upper classes of this kingdom, recording everything around him for his superiors back on Earth. In fact he is from Earth, now a socialist paradise or as close as anything involving humans can be to paradise, and he has stolen the identity of a dead aristocrat.
Don Rumata claims to be an aristocrat from Estor, a region in a distant empire far grander than Arkanar. No doubt Ackerman did the best she could but the the new Chicago Review Press edition is superior in pretty much every way.Īrkanar is a backward little kingdom on a world much like Earth, a feudal despotism of a familiar kind. It was translated by Wendayne Ackerman, working from a German translation, I believe). Whose cover depicts a scene found nowhere in the book. This interesting experiment was not rewarded with glowing sales and eventually the experiment was dropped. Wollheim turned his new company, DAW Books, to importing, translating and publishing foreign SF.
In the olden times of the long long ago, Don A.
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