Harry Turtledove's 1985 work, "The Road Not Taken," is the story of an alien race with space travel capability, but no other technology much beyond the Revolutionary War period. They land on 21st-century Earth intending to invade, only to--as would be expected--be sounded defeated by our Earth technology. The idea is that they had discovered a simple method of gravity manipulation for travel far in their past, and it had diverted their attention from other scientific advances. Humans, however, had not made this discovery, and so our science advanced us in virtually every other field. The result is ultimately a human race superior to aliens visiting it.
In activist science fiction, which like all areas of literary activism is almost always liberal/Left, humans are generally put down as either inferior or aggressive. When going for social allegory, humans are the stand-in for Whites, with the aliens being other races. By that, Turtledove's story would today be considered "White supremacist" should anyone draw attention to it, albeit with a bit of "Black Panther" in the form of the anti-gravity area. (And it would fit with other PC attacks on Turtledove's other works.)
But, before we hail Turtledove a hero for his Political INcorrectness, let us note he did cover his own White ass. "The Road Not Taken" is a prequel to the previous year's "Herbio-Haro," which is the story of a collapsed Terran empire centuries in the future, built by using that alien technology in conjunction with all we had developed without it. So, of course, humans--i.e., White people--ultimately are depicted as failing conquerors.
Nonetheless, "The Road Not Taken" is a nice relief from the PC CRT.
TEXT HERE: Turtledove_RoadNotTaken.pdf (eyeofmidas.com) (Far quicker to read than listen to.) Here's a snippit:
VIDEO (AUDIO WITH TEXT--over one hour): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXhCX7lr2tM
The reader here is, uh, not the most sophisticated. I didn't listen to the whole thing, but apparently he goes on tangents about things, and definitely doesn't understand about pausing a recording during confusion or editing it before posting.
One commenter said it well: "You don't know what a negligee is but spend 5 minutes on the difference between a mag and a clip? P.S. the Garand was clip-fed and some were still in use in Vietnam." He even pronounces it, "negliGEE."
Of course, yours truly had to weigh in on the clip/magazine discussion:
For your information: Back in the '80s, "clip" was often used for "magazine." The obsession some of my fellow gun nuts (said with love) have with drawing the distinction really didn't start until the late '90s-2000s, apparently as an attempt to sound academic.
Besides, how the hell do you know that this future rifle doesn't use clips? After reading of your "negliGEE" ignorance, I have to conclude you're a complete idiot.
