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  • Re: YASID: "Alien Ruler" possibly

    From James Nicoll@21:1/5 to rja.carnegie@gmail.com on Sun Sep 29 12:55:50 2024
    In article <vdb8p0$1n6o1$1@dont-email.me>,
    Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote:
    If I sisn't raise this already, does anyone recognise
    a short story described here?

    <https://qr.ae/p2uyZB>

    This is a link to a long and, from experience,
    variably accurate memory on "Quora".
    Basically: An alien lands his spaceship on Earth.
    The good news: He represents the galactic empire of
    benevolent non-interferers, and Earth is within the
    empire. The bad news: The empire has decided to swap
    the space containing Earth for some nicer space owned
    by the other galactic empire of exploiting planets
    and their inhabitants. So the message from the
    non-interferers is hello, goodbye, and submit.

    The asker says "I might have read it in a
    SF anthology back in the 80’s or possibly in
    Analog or Isaac Asimov’s SF magazine back in
    the 80’s."

    Which Earth "political" situation is represented
    is one of the points of debate: I proposed
    Hong Kong, in 1997. So the alien may look like this. ><https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Patten>

    I think it's a Mack Reynolds. Down the River (1950), which
    appeared in The Best of Mack Reynolds and Galactic Empires
    Volume Two. My bet would be that they read it in the
    latter.
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  • From banjo@dontspam.silent.com@21:1/5 to Nicoll on Mon Sep 30 13:28:39 2024
    On Sun, 29 Sep 2024 12:55:50 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James
    Nicoll) wrote:

    In article <vdb8p0$1n6o1$1@dont-email.me>,
    Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote:
    If I sisn't raise this already, does anyone recognise
    a short story described here?

    <https://qr.ae/p2uyZB>

    This is a link to a long and, from experience,
    variably accurate memory on "Quora".
    Basically: An alien lands his spaceship on Earth.
    The good news: He represents the galactic empire of
    benevolent non-interferers, and Earth is within the
    empire. The bad news: The empire has decided to swap
    the space containing Earth for some nicer space owned
    by the other galactic empire of exploiting planets
    and their inhabitants. So the message from the
    non-interferers is hello, goodbye, and submit.

    The asker says "I might have read it in a
    SF anthology back in the 80’s or possibly in
    Analog or Isaac Asimov’s SF magazine back in
    the 80’s."

    Which Earth "political" situation is represented
    is one of the points of debate: I proposed
    Hong Kong, in 1997. So the alien may look like this. >><https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Patten>

    I think it's a Mack Reynolds. Down the River (1950), which
    appeared in The Best of Mack Reynolds and Galactic Empires
    Volume Two. My bet would be that they read it in the
    latter.

    Also in "The Second Mack Reynolds Megapack" by Wildside Press.

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