Dear Folks –

Jeffrey Schwartz replied to my reply to him & Bruce:

>>>> Such as ‘Space Viking’.. a novel that’s overtly about raiding less technologically advanced worlds for their valuables :-/

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>>>Or Piper's "A Slave is a Slave", which has just about everything Imperium in it..

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>>That’s pretty timely… I’ve literally just finished reading Space Viking, now I can go off and read another Piper novel – thanks!

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>>BTW, there’s a short story somewhere in his future history centred on the Emperor…

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>"Ministry of Disturbance"

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>http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20659

That’s the one! Strephon and the Imperium could have come straight out of Piper’s description of the Emperor and the Empire itself. The only closer match is the one in E. E. “Doc” Smith’s “Family d’Alembert” series.

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