Jubal_Harshaw
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I THINK the book is from the 1970s or 1980s.
The premise is that humans start spreading through the systems comparatively-near Sol, and we are not "noticed" until we have been out in space and colonizing form quite some time. I do not recall WHY we are not noticed.
One we are noticed, we come to learn that "our" territories are all already component parts of much larger and much more-powerful interstellar polities/empires. As I recall, "our" space is partitioned among three different polities/empires, and the cultures of each develop in ways that resemble those of our three overlord empires. My best recollection is that one is a very laissez-faire, capitalist -type arrangement and that other is somewhat totalitarian and "rational" in a uber-Vulcan sort of way. I THINK that the novel was about interaction among individual humans raised in each of the three "overlord" societies.
Any help?
The premise is that humans start spreading through the systems comparatively-near Sol, and we are not "noticed" until we have been out in space and colonizing form quite some time. I do not recall WHY we are not noticed.
One we are noticed, we come to learn that "our" territories are all already component parts of much larger and much more-powerful interstellar polities/empires. As I recall, "our" space is partitioned among three different polities/empires, and the cultures of each develop in ways that resemble those of our three overlord empires. My best recollection is that one is a very laissez-faire, capitalist -type arrangement and that other is somewhat totalitarian and "rational" in a uber-Vulcan sort of way. I THINK that the novel was about interaction among individual humans raised in each of the three "overlord" societies.
Any help?
