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They're the Draka but more realistic, what with having to deal with actual drawbacks.
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Listening to the Lost Fleet books and I've got to the bit after finding Falco, and good grief this is aggravating. How the alliance+others have any ships, or anything at all to be honest, is a mystery to me. As described the ship commanders would have yolo'd into the first unwinnable fight and lost, probably against themselves. Jack should get back into a hibernation pod and wash his hands of the lot of them. Also ginger (space) british love interest is just awful. What is it with milfic having ginger british or Irish love interests. Is it a fetish?
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Collateral posted:Listening to the Lost Fleet books and I've got to the bit after finding Falco, and good grief this is aggravating. How the alliance+others have any ships, or anything at all to be honest, is a mystery to me. As described the ship commanders would have yolo'd into the first unwinnable fight and lost, probably against themselves. Blame Auberey/Maturin.
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Aug 21, 2023 20:58
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mllaneza posted:I just finished an H. Beam Piper reread, and I'd like to check in on one of my favorite problematic authors. I'll start with the "product of his times" spiel and then get into some unsavory details, he starts his career worse than expected for his times. Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen is mostly rereadable for me due to the draft version. Piper famously died an untimely death before he knew he was a successful science fiction author. Which lead to any unfinished or unpublished works getting dug up and published in anthologies. One of which is the draft version of Lord Kalvan... starring a tramp survey ship. The local situation, characters, and geography are shared between the two versions. The tramp survey ship is right out of his mainline future history. Reading them back to back is great, you can see Lord Kalvan cursing about stuff that gets handled with ease in the draft. If you are tracking down a copy I am pretty sure the anthology is Federation. Not Empire. I think you are looking at Little Fuzzy with rose colored glasses, but admittedly that may be because I read the two sequels right afterwards. Also Space Viking has a scene where the Jewish stand ins are more or less blamed for being suspicious.
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Aug 21, 2023 23:14
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habituallyred posted:I think you are looking at Little Fuzzy with rose colored glasses Probably.
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Aug 22, 2023 08:27
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mllaneza posted:Probably. The Fuzzy books are still my favorite books of his overall even going back to read them now, although as a (former) Texan I found Lone Star Planet pretty funny (I particularly recall the remark about on how everything on New Texas was called "super-something" as feeling about dead on what to expect from a space future Texas  ).
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MadDogMike posted:The Fuzzy books are still my favorite books of his overall even going back to read them now, although as a (former) Texan I found Lone Star Planet pretty funny (I particularly recall the remark about on how everything on New Texas was called "super-something" as feeling about dead on what to expect from a space future Texas Lone Star Planet was a lot of fun. You could tell Piper had fun writing it, and really got Texans at a deep level.
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