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The Gods of Xuma

af David J. Lake

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Serier: Xuma (1), Breakout (book 4)

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    Ardor on Aros af Andrew J. Offutt (paradoxosalpha)
    paradoxosalpha: Each novel features a protagonist who is a reader of the Burroughs John Carter of Mars stories, exploring a world suspiciously like Barsoom. The Offutt volume is more on the fantastic side, while Lake is more science-fictional.
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    Celestis af Paul Park (paradoxosalpha)
    paradoxosalpha: Exoplanetary imperialism, with human-exobiont sexual intrigue.
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The Gods of Xuma is a mildly metafictional take on Burroughs' Barsoom, framed by a "harder" SF scenario of attempted 24th-century emigration from the solar system. Instead of being the nearest planet in our system, as Barsoom was, Xuma is in the nearest star system that has an Earth-like planet. The explorers have read the old Barsoom stories, and they are intrigued by the arid planet with a canal-based civilization. The protagonist is the crew's linguist Tom Carson (note the shared meter and assonance with "John Carter"), who is the first to land on the planet and engage the natives.

In an interesting counter, Carson is not given low-gravity superpowers by the below-Earth gravity of Xuma, because he (like all healthy surviving humans) has actually grown up in even lower gravity among the human settlements on the Moon and Mars. What the humans do have is excessive military technology. The Xuman natives, while suspiciously advanced with respect to cultural continuity and general sciences, have no automated transport or weaponry beyond a medieval standard. But the humans barge in with beam weapons, tanks, and orbital barrages. Thus the star-faring humans are mistaken, first by the natives, and later by themselves, for "The Gods of Xuma."

Communications between the humans and Xumans are established quickly and easily, although without any cross-species telepathy or magical translation. Although superficially quite humanoid, the Xumans have a very different developmental and sexual cycle, which produces real but not insurmountable cultural distances from the explorers. The book does not shirk from an account of the first sexual encounter between humans and Xumans, along with the subsequent developments of this possibility.

The human characters are reasonably fallible, sometimes verging on pathetic, and the Xumans are a little incredibly benevolent. On the whole, the book is a pretty effective anti-imperialist fable. It has a sequel (Warlords of Xuma), but it doesn't cry out for one.
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