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SF and Fantasy novels we have read and could recommend.......
Volkodav:
Love it....my favourite genre, the bad guy / evil doer / malign entity, completely underestimates, miss identifies or miss targets the intended victim and pays the price.
There was a short story I read years ago in a sci-fi anthology that had a militaristic alien race engineer a conflict with a non-aligned, completely pacifist almost monastic human colony world that was so peace loving they apparently euthanized or banished the incorrigibly violent and warlike members of their society before they reach adulthood. Can not remember the name of it and there were clews of what was really happening prior to the obliteration of the invading battle fleet......the moral of the story was that ever generation or so a demonstration was required as to why everyone should just leave that world well alone.
Old Wombat:
--- Quote from: Volkodav on October 19, 2013, 10:00:10 AM ---Love it....my favourite genre, the bad guy / evil doer / malign entity, completely underestimates, miss identifies or miss targets the intended victim and pays the price.
There was a short story I read years ago in a sci-fi anthology that had a militaristic alien race engineer a conflict with a non-aligned, completely pacifist almost monastic human colony world that was so peace loving they apparently euthanized or banished the incorrigibly violent and warlike members of their society before they reach adulthood. Can not remember the name of it and there were clews of what was really happening prior to the obliteration of the invading battle fleet......the moral of the story was that ever generation or so a demonstration was required as to why everyone should just leave that world well alone.
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I have that story in one of my SF books back home but I can't remember the title or author, either. ???
:)
Guy
elmayerle:
There was a story somewhat like that by Christopher Anvil in which the planet banished, or put in stasis, those who could lively peacefully. These types were unleashed when some unwise power attacked them. In this particular story, it was crab-like aliens. I know it's in one of the collections of his stories that Eric Flint edited.
Weaver:
Another similar SF story is the one by Larry Niven where a human ship meets the Kzinti for the first time. Earth has been at peace for so long that the human crew literally have no concept of violence or war at all, except for an abstract historical concept. The warlike Kzinti pick all this up from comms and decide that since the Earth ship's technology is interesting, rather than blow it up, they'll just kill off the crew of "ridiculous weaklings" with an induction beam that heats it up and then take it home with them.
The human crew are utterly mystified as to why their ship is heating up and why the intelligent aliens (who MUST of course, be peaceful) don't want to talk to them, until one of them, a history buff, puts two and two together and realises the unthinkable truth. The humans turn their unarmed ship around, as if to move away..... then kick in their star drive at point blank range, cutting the Kzinti vessel in half and killing everyone aboard. They then head home in the blackest of depressions with the awful news that humanity is going to have to learn the killing game all over again.....
Edit - the story is called "The Warriors".
Volkodav:
--- Quote from: elmayerle on October 19, 2013, 10:06:45 PM ---There was a story somewhat like that by Christopher Anvil in which the planet banished, or put in stasis, those who could lively peacefully. These types were unleashed when some unwise power attacked them. In this particular story, it was crab-like aliens. I know it's in one of the collections of his stories that Eric Flint edited.
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Yes that was it, their primary export was the ability to place anything in stasis for as long as desired and revive it immediately as required. The secret was they could control the flow of time so when they were attacked they simply released their belligerent citizens from stasis and gave then a very large speed boost enabling them to literally fly rings around the attackers as if they were standing still.
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