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Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | |
Posted By: scarab | Date: 9/18/12 3:22 a.m. |
In Response To: Why I Hate Glasslands (Train Dodger) I liked E.E. Doc Smith when I was a kid but I wince a bit when I read him now. (Or I wince a lot. It depends on the book.) The Lensmen series is still OK. Still fun. The Skylark series has its white-european supremacist overtones and its casual genocides. But the peoples that were exterminated were unreasonable so they had to go. ;-) Subspace Explorers was just (Ayn Rand? or just libertarian?) wank fodder, if only all corrupt union activity could be busted using atomic powered tanks and high caliber artillery... It's a nasty book. (First Lensman (1950) also confronted corrupt unions linked to organized crime but Subspace Explorers (1960) took it to extremes.) But Smith didn't have his characters steal children, Nylund did. So Halo has always been grayer than pure space opera. And I'm getting a bit bored with the military themed stories: sacrifice, loyalty, honor, yawn. is there a machine that stamps these stories out? Halo fiction is repeating itself a lot. It could do with branching out.
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Why I Hate Glasslands | Train Dodger | 9/17/12 10:22 p.m. |
I agree with Williams, but I can see your points. | Rice | 9/17/12 10:41 p.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | General Battuta | 9/17/12 10:42 p.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | General Battuta | 9/17/12 10:44 p.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | Train Dodger | 9/17/12 11:54 p.m. |
On second thought... | Train Dodger | 9/18/12 6:24 p.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | ZackDark | 9/17/12 10:49 p.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | SonGoharotto | 9/17/12 11:24 p.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | Chewbaccawakka | 9/17/12 11:29 p.m. |
Correction. | Quirel | 9/18/12 12:10 a.m. |
Got it | ZackDark | 9/18/12 12:26 a.m. |
Re: Correction. | Chewbaccawakka | 9/18/12 1:12 a.m. |
Re: Correction. | Quirel | 9/18/12 1:34 a.m. |
Re: Correction. | Chewbaccawakka | 9/18/12 1:48 a.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | General Battuta | 9/17/12 11:32 p.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | Beckx | 9/18/12 9:40 a.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | General Vagueness | 9/18/12 7:26 p.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | Train Dodger | 9/18/12 12:28 a.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | Quirel | 9/18/12 12:32 a.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | ZackDark | 9/18/12 12:49 a.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | Quirel | 9/18/12 12:55 a.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | bluerunner | 9/18/12 9:05 a.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | ZackDark | 9/18/12 9:41 p.m. |
Total war | Flynn J Taggart | 9/18/12 12:36 a.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | SonGoharotto | 9/17/12 11:19 p.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | Jaydee | 9/18/12 12:12 a.m. |
On Halsey being demonized. | Rice | 9/18/12 12:32 a.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | TDSpiral | 9/18/12 12:33 a.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | Hawki | 9/18/12 1:49 a.m. |
Projecting guilt | scarab | 9/18/12 2:44 a.m. |
Re: Projecting guilt | Jaydee | 9/18/12 3:01 a.m. |
Re: Projecting guilt | Hawki | 9/18/12 3:12 a.m. |
Re: Projecting guilt | scarab | 9/18/12 3:52 a.m. |
Re: Projecting guilt | Train Dodger | 9/18/12 4:25 a.m. |
Re: Projecting guilt | Quirel | 9/18/12 9:41 a.m. |
Re: Projecting guilt | Harmanimus | 9/18/12 3:39 a.m. |
Re: Projecting guilt | scarab | 9/18/12 4:07 a.m. |
Re: Projecting guilt | Hawki | 9/18/12 4:46 a.m. |
Re: Projecting guilt | Harmanimus | 9/18/12 3:00 p.m. |
More like projecting Quilt | bryan newman | 9/18/12 4:52 a.m. |
Re: More like projecting Quilt | Hawki | 9/18/12 5:23 a.m. |
Re: More like projecting Quilt | bryan newman | 9/18/12 5:28 a.m. |
Re: More like projecting Quilt | Hawki | 9/18/12 5:34 a.m. |
Re: More like projecting Quilt | scarab | 9/18/12 1:20 p.m. |
Re: More like projecting Quilt | Hawki | 9/18/12 4:36 p.m. |
Best Line of the Whole Debate | Hoovaloov | 9/18/12 2:09 a.m. |
Re: Best Line of the Whole Debate | Hawki | 9/18/12 2:12 a.m. |
Re: Best Line of the Whole Debate | Quirel | 9/18/12 2:16 a.m. |
Re: Best Line of the Whole Debate | Hoovaloov | 9/18/12 2:22 a.m. |
Re: Best Line of the Whole Debate | Train Dodger | 9/18/12 2:25 a.m. |
Re: Best Line of the Whole Debate | Hoovaloov | 9/18/12 3:01 a.m. |
Re: Best Line of the Whole Debate | bluerunner | 9/18/12 8:59 a.m. |
Re: Best Line of the Whole Debate | Hawki | 9/18/12 2:28 a.m. |
Agree with all but the last sentence! *NM* | Lurono | 9/18/12 2:43 a.m. |
Re: Best Line of the Whole Debate | Hoovaloov | 9/18/12 2:48 a.m. |
Re: Best Line of the Whole Debate | Lurono | 9/18/12 3:12 a.m. |
Re: Best Line of the Whole Debate | Hoovaloov | 9/18/12 3:29 a.m. |
Re: Best Line of the Whole Debate | Lurono | 9/18/12 9:35 p.m. |
This: *NM* | thebruce0 | 9/18/12 9:01 a.m. |
D'oh, attempt 2 :) This: | thebruce0 | 9/18/12 9:06 a.m. |
Re: Best Line of the Whole Debate | Hoovaloov | 9/18/12 2:18 a.m. |
Re: Best Line of the Whole Debate | Train Dodger | 9/18/12 2:40 a.m. |
Re: Best Line of the Whole Debate | Lurono | 9/18/12 2:55 a.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | scarab | 9/18/12 3:22 a.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | Train Dodger | 9/18/12 3:54 a.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | Archilen | 9/18/12 3:38 p.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | Train Dodger | 9/18/12 11:45 p.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | Archilen | 9/19/12 9:14 a.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | Train Dodger | 9/19/12 11:36 a.m. |
Corollary | Train Dodger | 9/19/12 11:52 a.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | Archilen | 9/19/12 2:36 p.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | Train Dodger | 9/19/12 4:07 p.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | SonGoharotto | 9/19/12 5:01 p.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | Train Dodger | 9/19/12 5:04 p.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | General Vagueness | 9/19/12 7:15 p.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | ZackDark | 9/19/12 7:19 p.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | Train Dodger | 9/19/12 7:56 p.m. |
This is why Gameplay/Canon Segregation exists. *NM* | Rice | 9/19/12 11:56 p.m. |
Nope. | uberfoop | 9/20/12 12:05 a.m. |
To be fair to the UNSC... | SonGoharotto | 9/20/12 12:19 p.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | Quirel | 9/20/12 1:02 p.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | Gravemind | 9/20/12 2:17 p.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | Train Dodger | 9/20/12 6:11 p.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | General Vagueness | 9/20/12 9:32 p.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | Train Dodger | 9/20/12 11:13 p.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | General Vagueness | 9/20/12 8:36 p.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | General Vagueness | 9/20/12 9:09 p.m. |
Parangosky in GoO. | Rice | 9/25/12 4:19 a.m. |
Also | Rice | 9/25/12 5:26 a.m. |
On matters of execution | davidfuchs | 9/25/12 7:07 a.m. |
Re: On matters of execution | General Battuta | 9/25/12 2:46 p.m. |
The Halsey Jaw Punch | Rice | 9/26/12 2:26 a.m. |
Re: The Halsey Jaw Punch | Subtank | 9/26/12 5:06 a.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | General Vagueness | 9/19/12 7:41 p.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | SonGoharotto | 9/19/12 7:48 p.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | Train Dodger | 9/19/12 8:08 p.m. |
Update To Original Thread | Train Dodger | 9/18/12 9:04 p.m. |
Re: Update To Original Thread | SonGoharotto | 9/19/12 3:54 p.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | vlad3163 | 9/23/12 2:27 p.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | bryan newman | 9/24/12 1:17 a.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | Archilen | 9/24/12 9:04 a.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | General Vagueness | 9/24/12 3:20 p.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | General Vagueness | 9/24/12 3:04 p.m. |
Re: Why I Hate Glasslands | Tsudico | 10/30/12 2:22 p.m. |
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