![]() Radar, radio, computers, fission and fusion - no wonder we spent the next two hundred years conquering. With a chuckle, Chang said, "We must have seemed like angry gods when we finally got the hyperdrive and burst off Terra. And those have much broader applications - the others are only really good for moving things from here to there in a hurry." With attention focused on them, too, work on other things, like electricity and atomics, never gets started. "But trying to explain contragrav and the hyperdrive skews an unsophisticated, developing physics out of shape. What's that race that flew bronze ships because they couldn't smelt iron? And every species we know that reached what the old Terrans would have called a seventeenth-century technological level did what was needed - except us." "No idea - in hindsight they're obvious enough. The speaker in the poem, faced with a choice between two roads, takes the road 'less traveled,' a decision which he or she supposes 'made all the difference. Although commonly interpreted as a celebration of rugged individualism, the poem actually contains multiple different meanings. It was a rude shock when they found that a couple of simple experiments could have given them the key to contragrav and the hyperdrive three, four, even five centuries earlier." (ed note: in the 1500's.) Written in 1915 in England, 'The Road Not Taken' is one of Robert Frost'sand the world'smost well-known poems. "Back then, on Terra, they knew FTL travel was impossible forever. AD 3240 it encountered an alien species on the other side of the Orion Nebula which had also taken "the road less traveled". The Loki Salvage Service was created to continue this work and c.a. Some 1200 years after the first contact with an alien species, a few human colonies, including Loki, had regained most of the technological knowledge of the Terran Confederacy, both by rediscovery and by scavenging ruins. It became impossible to administer and so collapsed. However, this expansion was too quick and too extensive. ![]() With other technology far in advance of other species, humanity quickly expanded to other stars conquering the native populations and forming an empire called the Terran Confederacy. While set in the same universe as "The Road Not Taken", it has not been reprinted.Īfter the failed Roxolan invasion, Earth gained knowledge of hyperdrive and contragrav. It was originally published in Analog, October, 1984, and reprinted in Imperial Stars I: The Stars at War, edited by Jerry Pournelle & John F. "Herbig-Haro" is a short story by Harry Turtledove, published under his pen name Eric Iverson. Perhaps the poet refers to his choice of profession as a poet and his sailing to England (in 1912) leaving behind the safe but beaten tracks of his motherland where he could have led a happy and contented life of a farmer.I had to look that one up, here are the research results:įrom the article on the Harry Turtledove Wikia. His statement ‘this has made all the difference’ is a sort of confession of repentant, hesitation, and sighing. The speaker doesn’t seem happy because he regrets having taken up the second road. The two roads depict the confusion, in spite of making a choice one is never content and feels may be the other choice was better. To think off the beaten track always pays and makes the difference. Very few dare to take up challenges and choose a less traveled road. Hence, they often follow the less risky and more acceptable decisions. Generally, people are confused when they have to make a choice because it has far-reaching consequences. Though his decision to take the less-traveled road has made all the difference. The man then says that he will be telling with a ‘ sigh‘ someday in the future, still thinking what life would have been if he had chosen the more traveled road. Though he is not sure if ever again he would pass by it because one road leads to another and leaves no chance to change one’s decision, so he won’t get a chance to go back. He chooses the less traveled, grassy road because it needs wear and leaves the other road for some other day. The man stands there contemplating, and feels sad that he is unable to travel on both roads as both of them seem to be rewarding. The two roads in fact represent two alternative ways of life. The poet uses the fork in the road as a metaphor for the choices a person makes in life. It tells about a man who comes to a fork, in the road he is traveling upon. The poet’s experience becomes symbolic of human experience in all ages and countries. It is a great lyric that records a personal experience of the poet, but from the personal and the individual the poet soon rises to the universal and the general.
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