"H. Beam Piper - Federation" - читать интересную книгу автора (Piper H Beam)

transcribing his notes. Assassination of Khalid ib'n Hussein, the
pro-Western leader of the newly formed Islamic Caliphate; period of
anarchy in the Middle East; interfactional power-struggles; Turkish
intervention. He wondered how long that would last; Khalid's son, Tallal
ib'n Khalid, was at school in England when his father wasтАФwould
beтАФkilled. He would return, and eventually take his father's place, in time
to bring the Caliphate into the Terran Federation when the general war
came. There were some notes on that already; the war would result from
an attempt by the Indian Communists to seize East Pakistan. The trouble
was that he so seldom "remembered" an exact date.

Later in "Edge of the Knife":

There would be an Eastern (Axis) inspired uprising in Azerbaijan by
the middle of the next year; before autumn, the Indian Communists would
make their fatal attempt to seize East Pakistan. The Thirty Days' War
would be the immediate result. By that time, the Lunar Base would be
completed and ready; the enemy missiles would be aimed primarily at the
rocketports from which it was supplied. Delivered without warning, it
should have succeededтАФ except that every rocketport had its secret
duplicate and triplicate. That was Operation Triple Cross; no wonder
Major Cutler had been so startled at the words, last evening. The enemy
would be utterly overwhelmed under the rain of missiles from across
space, but until the moon rockets began to fall, the United States would
suffer grievously.

The end result, according to Piper, is World War HIтАФ the nightmare
we all dread come true. The new order is the Pan-Federation, otherwise
known as the First Federation, formed after the Thirty Days War.
According to a security officer who talks to our time-seeing historian: "It's
all pretty hush-hush, but this term Terran Federation [is] for a proposed
organization to take the place of the U.N. if that organization breaks upтАж"

In "The Mercenaries" mention is made of the same Islamic Caliphate
and a Fourth Komintern, which clearly puts this story, which first
appeared in Analog in 1962, into the TFH cannon. Caliphate is spelled
with a "K" in "The Mercenaries" but this could easily be a stylistic
difference in copy-editing between the two houses. Certainly by 1962
everything Piper was writing was either part of the future history or a
Lord Kalvan story (In the introduction to "When in the Course" we show
that the Lord Kalvan stories are really offshoots of the TFH; so it could
well be said that nothing Piper wrote after the fifties was not part of his
future history.)

But what is this about a First and Second Federation? In Space Viking
I found this note: "[Terra even] had anti-technological movements after
Venus seceded from the First Federation, before the Second Federation
was organized." Some scholars have tried to argue that this sentence
proves that Pipers TFH is nothing but a copy of Asimov's Foundation
trilogy, but I believe that's bunk. There is sufficient evidence to show that