Re: Elliott's peoples

From: "Wesley Parish" <wes.parish@...>

> Just a question:  have you ever come across a book by John Calvin
Batchelor
> called "The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica"?
Nope, never have. West Antarctica in my story is actually the prison colony
of the USA (which now includes South America, the Caribbean and the Pacific
along with North America, a fulfillment of an extreme form of Manifest
Destiny). I haven't done anything with East Antarctica in my story, as it's
the less inhabitable half of the continent.

> Your words on the "Trolls" settling in Peninsular Antarctica triggered
that.
> He sets his "People's Republic of Antarctica" in the peninsular next to
Cape
> Horn.  But it is a harrowing book to read.  Not for the faint of heart.
That's where I put the Trolls (and the human convicts), and also further
south, mostly on the islands. I made some significant changes to Trollish
phonology today; I added voiced stops, but many Trolls don't notice any
difference.

Harrowing? I like that... my work is pretty seedy myself. A big part of the
story is how a failing college student and peeping tom starts a religious
cult in Texas and wins some powerful friends (and horny women), adopts a
theocratic-fascist agenda and takes over the Western Hemisphere.

I've done much more work on the "Elves" than the "Trolls", and I have no
name for the Trolls. Neo-Neanderthals perhaps? Bigfeet?

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