Author Topic: An unheralded SMAC literary inspiration (Read 1347 times)

Buster's Uncle · « **on:** May 03, 2015, 10:43:27 pm »

Victory, a story By Fred Saberhagen -the Berserkers and Book of Swords author- about an emissary (with a familiar name) from an interstellar government visiting a world that's had a one-sided nuclear war going for 40 years - and meets a leader with a very familiar outlook and modus operendi. This is a scan of two pages from the story, anthologized in Saberhagen: My Best.

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I found this six years ago, but my post about it is on an old dead forum where few of you will have seen it - so I figured I'd re-post here. -But read the two pages I attach below, and tell me this didn't have everything to do with the creation of the Hive. The story's worth turning up and read for any dedicated SMACer.