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Forum Name: Undocumented Features General
Topic ID: 161
Message ID: 61
#61, RE: Acceptance of the Notion of Artificial Sentiance
Posted by Nathan on Oct-22-01 at 07:19 PM
In response to message #58
>Only the first five. Dave & crew loses site of things like, oh,
>originality starting with The Chosen.

Heh. The historical parallels were kinda fun in that one, tho. And I had just as good a time loathing the Chosen as I did the Draka (who were ALSO Stirling's fault), so it was kinda fun.

Does it count as a ripoff if you're reusing your own ideas/concepts/fictional-villianous-societies?

For the record, I have the first one, whatever the title was, and The Chosen, and have enjoyed both. Both Drake and Stirling can be more than a bit grim for my tastes, but they also tell very fun stories.

>A decent variant on the theme with slightly warped orthodox
>chrisitianty as a foil would be Dave & Eric Flint's Belisaurius
>series. Better writing, much more sci-plot. Lots of Deus ex machina.
> They, however, have started to kill off some nice main characters,
>and thus are more refreshing that the General series in this respect.

Own 'em _all_. Also 1632, and am currently greatly enjoying my history class. We've just reached the Thirty Years War. ^_^

>A not-so-decent variant on the theme would be David Weber and John
>Ringo's March to the Sea books. The plot isn't 1/2 as interesting and
>the shenanighans they go through to use their technology to reverse
>engineer the industrial revolution are ridiculous. I kept wanting to
>ask which game level they were playing. If you're willing to jump
>over the plot holes, it's a wild ride. They really should have posted
>"Abandon all reason, ye who enter here" on the front cover.

*chortle* Actually, I tried to read the sample chapters and just -choked-, which, considering my tolerance for crap literature, is preeetty rare. They're currently the only David Weber books that I have _NO_ plans to read.

>Oh, and the protagonist is sexy in a dread Pirate Roberts sort a way
>with some teenage angst (thank god I'm, done with that) mixed in to
>make him "conflicted". Which is a nice change from middle aged men
>and married guys saving the world. If you're interested in that sort
>of thing.

*blinkblink* I'm straight, thank you...

> and now we're really off topic...

Booyah!

Blessed be.
Nathan Baxter
(Discordian in Training)