> Mark Englehart writes: > >I have to disagree. In Teckla, Verra tells Vlad that the books the > >revolutionaries were working from came from Earth and were > not appropriate > >for Dragaera, at least not yet. That means that communism > and socialism at > >least have not been seen in a Teckla Republic. > To which Joshua Kronengold replies > Er...no, it means it isn't time for a Teckla Republic yet. > Not the right part of the cycle. What else would it mean? > I agree with Mark on this one. My impression from Verra was not "this is the wrong era for this" , it was "this literature is inappropriate to this world and culture because things don't work that way here".