> I suspect it is; Sterling puts in a bunch of
> cute touches. It would be hard to prove, though,
> since a lot of the story is about the Emperor of
> Mars.
> This sequence of stories is set in an alternate
> world where the naive science fiction that
> populated every planet with humanoid aliens turns
> out to be right. I believe there are a lot of
> homages to "classic" novels which I didn't
> read.
> ---David
> Canals, of course. Maru.
sounds like the original killer bees...
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