[lojban] Re: AW: Lojbanic philosophy

[Jim Cheetham <jim@gonzul.net>]

On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 09:56, Llu'is Batlle i Rossell wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 09:23:36AM +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 04:52, Goetz.Kluge@infineon.com wrote:
> > > Perhaps one should try to get
> > > some SF writer to use it in his stories.
> > 
> > Does anyone with a foot in the Esperanto camp know how successful Harry
> > Harrison's "Stainless Steel Rat" books were for promoting Esperanto use?
> > I know that the references interested me to have a go ...
> > 
> I don't know anything about that books... :/
> What are them about?

Humourous science fiction - there are hundreds/thousands of
human-populated worlds settled during an earlier empire, which
collapsed, allowing worlds to develop their own languages. When
communication started up again, Esperanto was adopted as the common
interaction language of commerce.

The "Stainless Steel Rat" character is a bored, over-achieving lazy
criminal, who gets blackmailed into joining the Special Corps, a
peace-keeping law-enforcing secret agency. He gets to save pretty
ladies, worlds, and occasionally even universes in between hangovers.

All good inoffensive comic space-opera fun :-)

-jim