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| MapleLeafs4Ever | Jun 14 2008, 10:51 PM Post #16 |
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. . . with black-powder muskets. :lol: |
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| Mr Nelg | Jun 15 2008, 03:03 AM Post #17 |
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Well, speak of the devil. That's one of the stories that's in "Kaleidoscope." It's a collection of short stories by Harry Turtledove. I got it a while back from a second hand book store. I haven't seen it around lately, but i remember buying it for the story where Gandhi takes on the might of Nazi Germany when they conquare India. |
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| SladeJack | Jun 15 2008, 06:11 AM Post #18 |
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I used to own Kaleidoscope via the 3xT omnibus. It had the bears on the cover. I had read Earthgrip the year before. I started reading what's-it, the one where they grant that queen immortality and don't discover it for 1500 years, but it didn't really hold my interest. It was okay. HB came out a few days later and I decided I'd rather read that, and since I found it disappointing I decided I'd had enough of HT for a bit. Eventually I think I wound up donating 3xT and a number of others to a library or something like that, without reading any more of it. Though having gotten familiar with some of the Kaleidoscope stories on the Turtlewiki I sort of whish I had it back sometimes. |
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| Makkabee | Jun 15 2008, 08:13 AM Post #19 |
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I quite liked Noninterference. The mix of techno-thriller and sort of Star Trek-like adventure story worked well for me. |
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| SladeJack | Jun 15 2008, 12:26 PM Post #20 |
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After the fact I eventually wanted to finish it but always seemed to have something else to read. The implications of the immortal queen were very good. The head sociologist bent on ruling the universe was a tad cliche. |
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| Makkabee | Jun 15 2008, 12:59 PM Post #21 |
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But she wasn't bent on ruling the universe -- that wasn't her goal at all. She was trying to cover up a scandal in order to preserve funding for space exploration. There was no evidence in the novel that she ever wanted to rise higher than senior grade in the civil service. |
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| SladeJack | Jun 15 2008, 01:13 PM Post #22 |
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Oh, I must have misremembered it. Seems a rather modest goal for which to kill so many people, especially since she wasn't responsible for the initial fuck-up. |
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| MapleLeafs4Ever | Jun 16 2008, 11:39 PM Post #23 |
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Beware the wrath of a stymied civil servant is all I have to say. |
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| SladeJack | Jun 17 2008, 12:05 AM Post #24 |
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She reminded me of a B-movie villain, like the hotel manager in Shark Attack 3: Megalodon. |
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| Custer | Jun 17 2008, 12:06 AM Post #25 |
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...oh dear god. |
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| SladeJack | Jun 17 2008, 12:12 AM Post #26 |
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The Grand SladeJack
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What's wrong? |
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| Custer | Jun 17 2008, 12:16 AM Post #27 |
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THE SCI-FI CHANNEL MOVIE REFERENCE THAT JUST WON'T DIE. |
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| SladeJack | Jun 17 2008, 06:49 AM Post #28 |
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It was picked up by Sci Fi but it's not theirs originally. And it comes up barely more than once a year, and then as the occasional throwaway reference like any other movie would have. You're acting like Nelg demanding to know why I "always" told the HT's Anti-Australian Bias joke (no offense Nelg). |
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| Makkabee | Jun 17 2008, 07:11 AM Post #29 |
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I liked having a villain who wasn't a snarling moustache-twirler, and instead was just really cold and lacking in empathy. Of course her security chief was somehting of a moustache-twirler himself, so you lose some of the positive of that. |
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| SladeJack | Jun 17 2008, 07:58 AM Post #30 |
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I don't know. I get that it's her livelihood, her career, so she'd want to defend it, but I just had a hard time getting excited about a campaign of mass murder directed at allowing discrete surveys of preindustrial civilizations to continue unobstructed. I also was perplexed by the political implications of such projects but I've since learned that position is a naive one. |
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