:: bows ::
Your Imperial Majesty!
That’s the part that’s tripping you up, not the fact that he’s being put on trial by unborn ghosts and penguins? (It’s not really a science fiction book per se, more like a grimly humorous satire on the insanity of the nuclear arms race.)
I’ll accept anything, including penguin jurors, if it makes sense in-universe. I was just intrigued by that thought and wondered if there was some logic to it, some philosophical syllogism.
BTW, I’m not giving up my emperorship. What’s done is done.
That’s more like it!
I refuse to acknowledge your imperial power unless you assume the regnal name of “Norton II”.
How dare you set conditions on the Emperor, varlet!
I have vague memories of one, which I could no doubt identify by Googling, but I thought I’d try here first.
I don’t remember much, but some alien race had captured humans long ago and bred them to be service animals. The human breeds were as unalike from each other as different dog breeds, and they were used as pack animals, riding animals, etc.
And some form of alien religion featured as well, as complex and dogma-ridden as some Earth religions.
That’s all I got.
Another story I would like to read.
Sorry, it wasn’t notarized.
That sounds like Vance’s “The Dragon Masters”
However this
Does not.
He’s lucky I agreed to any conditions at all. My loyalty still lies with King @iiandyiiii I.
Your loyalty will be rewarded!
Thank you, but please - no more goats.
Lucy, is that you?
And when is Stratocaster going to start printing money, as is within his perview?
Oh, that’s familiar. But I can’t place it. – had they maybe come across some human children who had survived a disaster, but were feral due to lack of adults to raise them, and therefore took them to be non-sapient?
First things first. @iiandyiiii? It’s pistols at dawn. You can meet my second in the field behind the middle school. Oh! And please bring some pistols.
That’s vaguely like The Mount by Carol Emshwiller.
Could the Sacerdotes fit this part of the story?
Yes! I remember that word being used in the story that I’m dimly recalling. Googling Jack Vance’s The Dragon Masters seems to bear it out. Wow, that was a long time ago I read that. I think it was a bit complex for teenaged me to keep it all straight.
May be, I don’t remember them at all. I think I’ll have to reread Dragon Masters