"Alex Clark" <alexbcl...@pennswoods.net> wrote in message

> Patricia C. Wrede wrote:
>> English, so yes, pretty much anglicised.  The *plan* is for it to be a
>> "settling the frontier" book, only without Indians (because I really hate
>> both the older Indians-as-savages viewpoint that was common in that sort
>> of
>> book, *and* the modern Indians-as-gentle-ecologists viewpoint that seems
>> to
>> be so popular lately, and this seems the best way of eliminating the
>> problem, plus it'll let me play with all sorts of cool megafauna). . . .

> I'd rather handle it as in de Camp's "reluctant shaman" stories:
> portray them as just plain folks, though they might have some
> interesting traditional magic.