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Scott R
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Beautiful Stuff

Is this what passes for political sci-fi these days?

Bleh.
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I couldn't finish it, the writing was too bad. I never got to the political stuff.
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Icarus
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They published this but not my stuff?

[Grumble]
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I refuse to read past the first paragraph.
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Yeah, I couldn't finish it, either. What's the propaganda? Is someone picking on LDS again?
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PSI Teleport
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quote:
The man behind the desk would have to re-revive Rusty, and all the others, before they could do what had been asked of them.
Sorry, I couldn't resist.

[ROFL]
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Annie
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Heh. Here's the brunt of the politics:
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"If we'd known, we wouldn't have done it," Ari said.

"Because?" Rusty said patiently.

"We did it for the wrong reasons," Ari said. "We expected things to happen that didn't happen. Paradise, and, like, virgins." Ari looked shyly down at his decaying feet. "I'm sorry."

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PSI Teleport
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[ROFL]
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I'm really missing something here. [Dont Know]
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Annie
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Basic premise of the story:

The president revives a bunch of bombing victims to testify that his war on terrorism is justified. Instead, they sneak the bombers into the group as well and they tell the crowd that dying hurts and that you shouldn't kill anyone. The corpses all then fall in love with beautiful inanimate objects, enjoying the little pleasures of life they no longer get to enjoy.

See, I'm all for propaganda, if you can write it well enough to make it at least palatable. This was just silly.
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Icarus
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Dingle!

[Big Grin]
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Scott R
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[Smile] @ Icarus.

No kidding.

Check out The Key about which I'm not sure how I should feel.
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"Idiot." The voice was very quiet now, very dangerous. "Idiot. Do you know why we're doing this? Have you been paying attention?"

"Sir," the aide stuttered. "Yes sir."

"Oh, really? Because if you'd been paying attention, they wouldn't be here!"

"But—"

"Prove to me that you understand," said the dangerously quiet voice. "Tell me why we're doing this."
[ROFL]

How subtly the author introduces his exposition. Oh, the majesty of a master at his craft.

[ROFL]

[Edited for stupid spelling mistake]

[ August 24, 2004, 01:12 PM: Message edited by: Noemon ]
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My 12th grade English teacher would have refused the paper at the second sentence:

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The tarp had been spread over fine woolen carpet, the walls were papered in soothing monochrome linen, and the desk in front of Rusty was gleaming hardwood.
The subjects are the only unmodified nouns.

Dagonee
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Shigosei
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Haven't read it yet, but propaganda in science fiction is nothing new. Anybody read Heinlein's For Us, the Living? It's interesting, and a few of his predictions about what will happen in the future are fairly close (most are way off, true). But it's definitely one of his preachiest books, and that's saying something.
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Scott R
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It's one thing to publish clever political science fiction propaganda; what does it say when you publish drivel?

I'll read any viewpoint as long as it's expressed intelligently-- but this. . . I felt like someone hammered my eyeballs.
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Heinlien+ Preachy....

See SIASL and ST...

Kwea
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Scott R
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A pretty good horror story is up this week on Scifiction-- called 'Bulldozer.'

Be warned, it's pretty graphic.
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No one should read "For Us The Living"

It was his first attempt at writing and it shows.
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