On 31 Jul 2015 at 22:52, Grimmund wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 1:02 AM,  <xxxxxx@shadowgard.com> wrote:
>
> >> Yeah, GDW pretty much tried to smoosh together "Pride of Lions", "Bonanza"
> >>and "Tokugawa-era Samurai" and simplified horribly.
>
> The JTAS 7 article does explicitly refer to "age of war" samurai as a
> cultural model.
>
> This may, of course, be a simplification for Terrans, to provide an
> approximation that they might find familiar.
>
> > More like an attempt at C J Cherryh's Hani from "Pride of Chanur and
> > the sequels.
>
> I had to check, but the first Chanur book came out in 81.  First
> reference to Aslan that I could find was a teaser in JTAS 6, and an
> article in JTAS 7, which was first quarter 1981.

Was Pride of Chanur serialized in one of the SF magazines?

I admit that's reaching a bit, but back then it was still fairly
common for novels to have appeared inmagazines a year or two before
coming out in paperback or even hardback.

If not, then I guess it wasa meme floating around. Wouldn't be the
first one.

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