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Zemyla
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"Why do I keep having UF dreams?"
 
   In this one, Gryphon was on the shakedown cruise of the Voyager, and had to respond to an Earthforce incursion. Seems an Earthforce captain found an inhabited world near New Avalon that was almost ready for First Contact, and rather than risk them allying with the enemy, was prepared to bombard it orbitally.

Also, there was a crewman named Chekhov (related to Anton, not Pavel).

It was pretty awesome, even after a lot of it faded upon waking, and I'm wondering how to keep having these dreams.


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  Subject     Author     Message Date     ID  
  RE: Why do I keep having UF dreams? Gryphonadmin Feb-19-10 1
  RE: Why do I keep having UF dreams? Meagen Feb-19-10 2
     RE: Why do I keep having UF dreams? A Vile Gangster Feb-20-10 3
  RE: Why do I keep having UF dreams? BlueNinja0 Mar-07-10 4
     RE: Why do I keep having UF dreams? Gryphonadmin Mar-07-10 5
         RE: Why do I keep having UF dreams? BlueNinja0 Mar-07-10 6
             RE: Why do I keep having UF dreams? Gryphonadmin Mar-07-10 7

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Gryphonadmin
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1. "RE: Why do I keep having UF dreams?"
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   LAST EDITED ON Feb-19-10 AT 05:40 PM (EST)
 
>In this one, Gryphon was on the shakedown cruise of the Voyager, and
>had to respond to an Earthforce incursion. Seems an Earthforce
>captain found an inhabited world near New Avalon that was almost ready
>for First Contact, and rather than risk them allying with the enemy,
>was prepared to bombard it orbitally.

The only really odd thing about that is the Voyager. I'd expect the Earthies to come up with a ship that ugly long before either of the IPO yards.

I like that basic story concept, though. In fact, the more I revolve it the more appealing it gets. Great illustration of the basic ethical divide within the Earthforce officer corps, and between the Earth Alliance and Zeta Cygni, at that point in history.

--G.
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Meagen
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2. "RE: Why do I keep having UF dreams?"
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   Why do I keep having UF dreams?

Because UF is the stuff- eh, too easy.

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A Vile Gangster
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3. "RE: Why do I keep having UF dreams?"
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   It's cool in non-UF canon ways too, granted Gryph isn't the originator of this literary concept. He, however, differs in the methods by which he integrates beings, locations, technology and mythology into an organic and living whole; And with those filters, has found other like-minded writers to expand the work with him.

There's love in this-Not just in the characters, but in the traditions of storytelling that the writers here evoke(More-so than some professional authors seem capable of managing...) I was still a teenager when I first started reading here and lemmetellya, the quality and scope of the work done here has forever changed how I appraise the quality of other author's writing, including my own.

/testimonial

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BlueNinja0
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4. "RE: Why do I keep having UF dreams?"
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   Better than mine ... few days ago, after re-reading Kei's disappearance, I dreamed that Kei kept going back and forth between being a prisoner of the Peacekeepers and a prisoner of Saberhagen-style Berserker ships, until a daring rescue was finally staged by Gryphon & co aboard the Andromeda Ascendant (with Captain "Have you seen my force lance?" Hunt), which only went off successfully due to the last-minute intervention of Wolfgang the Lensbeagle.

I will be surprised if any of that even comes close to the story when it's finished.


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Gryphonadmin
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5. "RE: Why do I keep having UF dreams?"
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   >I will be surprised if any of that even comes close to the story when
>it's finished.

So will I, though I like the instrumentality-of-Wolfgang part.

Side story: Many years ago, the Boston Red Sox used to have a pitcher named Bret Saberhagen. One day at Shamrock House in Waltham, I was sitting in the living room watching a Sox game on TV when our summer lodger (a friend of ours who was in vet school at Ohio State and needed a place to crash in Greater Boston between school years) poked her head in to see what I was up to. As she did so, Saberhagen's name appeared in the on-screen graphic and the commentators made some remark or another about his stats so far that season or some such.

Our lodger, who was and is a big-time fantasy-lit junkie, boggled at the screen and said, "The Red Sox have a player named Fred Saberhagen?!"

I didn't get it at the time, though once it was explained to me, I was sort of residually amused every time Bret Saberhagen turned up in my awareness from that point on. (Truss and I used to call him "Bret Cyberhagen" because he had had so many surgeries on his pitching arm.)

--G.
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BlueNinja0
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6. "RE: Why do I keep having UF dreams?"
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   >>I will be surprised if any of that even comes close to the story when
>>it's finished.
>
>So will I, though I like the instrumentality-of-Wolfgang part.

Well, y'know, everyone else's lens does something special, unique, and awesome. I can't wait to find out what Wolfgang's does.


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Gryphonadmin
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7. "RE: Why do I keep having UF dreams?"
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   >>>I will be surprised if any of that even comes close to the story when
>>>it's finished.
>>
>>So will I, though I like the instrumentality-of-Wolfgang part.
>
>Well, y'know, everyone else's lens does something special, unique, and
>awesome. I can't wait to find out what Wolfgang's does.

Well, he's a hound. It would make sense if it gave him a preternatural ability to track other Lensmen.

--G.
or to track anything, really
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