Tag Archives: government
On Fingernail Clippers and the Global Balance of Power
I’ve read a number of books which are accounts of people who escaped from North Korea, and I plan to read more of them. Maybe I need to be reminded that my life is actually pretty good. Maybe I need to be reminded of what happens when a government achieves absolute power. Maybe it has […]
Review: Intergalactic Empires
Isaac Asimov’s Intergalactic Empires I’ve recently posted several articles about using a galactic empire as a story setting, and now it’s time to go old-school. Back in the old days, a galactic empire didn’t cut it, a real man’s empire had to be INTERgalactic. Short Stories Chalice of Death by Robert Silverberg (1957) Humanity once […]
Setting: Galactic Empire, part 3
In part 1, I described the enormous scale of a galactic empire. In part 2, I discussed the economic impact of FTL technology on its economy. Now I ask: what is the point of our galactic empire? Why do some of the characters in the story support it and defend it? The empire’s purpose may […]
Planetary Defense Command 