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Peel
Dec 3, 2007

All the old vs. debates tended to end up with a thin scaffolding of rationalisation around a whirling planet-killing apocalypse machine because the numbers just get so ridiculous if you want to go anywhere or do anything in space in a timely fashion.

The general task of MilSF is to hammer and shoehorn something (cool mid-C20-esque naval and ground battles) into a box it absolutely does not fit (the inhuman space, time and energy scales of outer space). It's good at its job if the elaborate scheme of rationalisations used is more interesting than it is ridiculous.

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