> been a "Jean Brust" of that generation, for all I know. (His parents > came from Hungary, bringing Bill with them, in 1920, it says here, as > a result of having been on the losing side in the 1919 Hungarian > revoluion.) > Odd...I remember being told all my life that it was '21, not 20. But you're right about the rest of it. My Grandfather, Zoltan Brust, was a delegate to his soviet (I think he worked in a bicycle factory) in the revolution of 1919, and left when Horthy came to power. So far as I know, his wife, Mariska, was never political. The attitude nagyapa (grandpa) always presented to my father was something like, "Well, if a revolution comes along, of course you support it, but don't go out of your way to make trouble." Dad, of course, specialized in going out of his way to make trouble. The other thing nagyapa used to say whenever my father screwed up was, "From this you make a revolution?" > You don't ask about Steven's personal life in this part that I can > see; the question of whether Kelly's group is anything like politics > on Earth being different from the question of whether it's like > *Steven's* politics or the politics of any other actual person. > Authors, as you know, often write about characters and groups that > they don't fully agree with. Correct again. In particular, if I'm going to introduce politics into a story, I try to make it politics that my protragonists are contemptuous of, or at least don't agree with; my hope is that this keeps me from getting pedantic. I hate pedantic fiction. Hate it. Hate it, hate it, hate it. I'll have to write something blatently pedantic one of these days.