Re: Alternative histories and paralele universes
| From: | Kenji Schwarz <schwarz@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 6, 1999, 0:51 |
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On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Andrew Smith wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Jan 1999, John Cowan wrote:
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> > A natural candidate would be the horse itself, which evolved in
> > the New World before becoming extinct there; it survived only
> > because some horses had escaped over the Bering Strait to Asia.
> >
> Now there's an interesting idea for an alternative history: all horses are
> rendered extinct before they could be domesticated. Way off topic for
> this list though.
Well, barely. There is that other constructed culture and conlang,
Tsolyani, set on a planet without any horses, or for that matter, any
other riding animals. The only draft animal of any sort is a giant
armored critter sort of like a triceratops, IIRC.
> but I can't think of the title off hand. (I think his most recent books
> suffer a bit from too much political correctness.)
Troll! Troll!! ;)
Kenji Schwarz