Talk:The Domination

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Is it just a coincidence that 'Oceania' from Nineteen Eighty-Four and the 'Alliance for Democracy' in The Domination occupy almost identical territories?

Oh, and by the way, wasn't "Drakon" also a Draka novel? That makes it a four-book series, not a trilogy.

Isn't it odd how in real life, the nations with the greatest appetite for conquest are invariably those with the least ability to conquer? Pretty convenient the way that works out... Iceberg3k 23:23, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)

Marie Curie's maiden name

The article originally claimed that "Sokolowska is the maiden name of Marie Curie". Well, it's not Sokolowska, but Skłodowska (not even Sklodowska). The problem here is that that remark was about a character in the story - a certain "Marya Sokolowska"; the note goes on to say that "it is not clear whether the fictional character is intended to be an alternate-history version of the chemist, but from the description of her intelligence, it seems likely".

Well... was Marya's last name Sokolowska or Skłodowska? If it was Sokolowska, does the note still make sense? How should it be phrased now, in the case it should still be there?

I've corrected it to look like this, but I'm sure there is a better way of putting it:

Her slaves include Marya Sokolowska and Chantal Lefarge, formerly a Polish nun and a French Communist respectively. (Note that Skłodowska is the maiden name of Marie Curie; it is not clear whether the fictional character is intended to be an alternate-history version of the chemist, but from the description of her intelligence, it seems likely).

--Fibonacci 08:19, 9 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

There's also the fact that Marie Skłodowska/Sokolowska/Curie was born in 1867 and would have been over eighty by the time this novel was set in (in reality, she died years before even the first book in the series began). The character is several decades younger. MK2 01:19, 13 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ending

Can someone clue me into what happened at the end of The Stone Dogs? I've reread it atleast a dozen times and I don't understand. The U.S. President gets the message from LeFlarge and that's it. Thanks.

Biological superiority

There's a great deal made in the later books of how the Draka superclass are biologically engineered to actually become supermen. User:Zoe|(talk) 23:22, 27 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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