![]() Our doorway into this universe is the "Ballad of Santiago," an evergrowing song by a future troubador, Black Orpheus. ![]() ![]() Authority in the form of the Democracy (your basic repressive state) is not really in charge here: it is a place where the law is what you make it, where the people you meet have stories you may not want to hear, although you are wise to listen, and what you see is probably not what you're going to get. The story takes place on the Inner Frontier, the edge of human space toward the center of the galaxy. You are very close to Mike Resnick's Santiago. Put the characters of the American frontier, both real and legendary - Mike Fink, Paul Bunyan, Wyatt Earp, Annie Oakley - into the story of the wanderings of Odysseus, make the center of the story a quest for Robin Hood, and kick it into the far future. They say he never sleeps, and that his eyes burn brighter than a nova, and that his shout can level mountains. ![]() ![]() They say his father was a comet and his mother a cosmic wind, that he juggles planets as if they were feathers and wrestles with black holes just to work up an appetite. Rambles: Mike Resnick, Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future ![]()
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