The Peacemaker

by Alfred Coppel

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Genres: Short Stories

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First published November 30, 2010

About the author

Alfredo Jose de Arana-Marini Coppel was an American author. He served as a fighter pilot in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. After his discharge, he started his career as a writer. He became one of the most prolific pulp authors of the 1950s and 1960s, adopting the pseudonyms Robert Cham Gilman and A.C. Marin and writing for a variety of pulp magazines and later "slick" publishers. Though writing in a variety of genres, including action thrillers, he is known for his science fiction stories which comprise both short stories and novels.

Reviews

[Zen]

Kind of liked this one. The Telling of the Tale had Mythical feel. And the Telling is One that bears No Relationship to the Actual History of the man Jaq Merril, who was a space pirate but is Lauded in the History Books as a Bringer of Peace and a Man who Ended the Cold War in Space.

It's an Old Idea in Sci-Fi Pulp. The Best way to End the Cold War is to give the Two Combatants a Common Enemy to Fight. Preferably an Alien One.

First time I ran across this Idea in My Own personal Sci-Fi Reading was in the Book "The Lathe of Heaven" by Ursula K. Le Guin, which is book I should get around to re-reading one day. It's been decades since I read that one and I seem to recall that I rather enjoyed that one.

In this story the Common Enemy is Human Pirates out to make a buck. And of course, any Nation's Spaceship or Colony is fair game.

But here I must point out that Alfred Coppel, despite stating that these Space Pirates had No Loyalty to One Particular Nation, couldn't help but let His Own Loyalties to America show through His Writing. All Destruction of American Settlements and Spaceships happens "Off Screen". But He has no Problem describing the Destruction of Russian Ships and Settlements as it happens "On Screen". I wonder if He did that Consciously or if He was worried about Disturbing His American Sci-Fi Pulp Readers. Interesting.

I not sure how often Sci-Fi writers have extended the Cold War Wall or Iron Curtain into the Outer Reaches of the Solar System the way this one does. It's something I am going to have to look into.

So an Interesting Read for someone like Me who has always been an avid reader of History and the "Great Men" who make History.

[Jane Roxanne Beamon]

The true story of the System's great Peacemaker is nothing like the history books...

[Forked Radish]

Nothing breaks up an argument quicker than a bear attack. Ergo, bears are great peacemakers. Blessed are the 🐻s.

[Ania]

A buccaneering adventure in space, it examines how Legends are made and how they only represent a 2-dimensional hero, one who inspires us, but who's 3rd dimension, the dark side if you will, is kept hidden.

Written during the cold war it explores the idea of a long standing conspiracy theory of a well-known, and once secret, project called "Project blue beam". ((Google this for more info.)) Supposedly this project, in a nutshell, worked on the idea that to unite the future mankind only an invader from space could accomplish this by providing a common enemy. Although in this story there is no alien invader, there are certainly "social outsiders" who accomplish just that.