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a drug in the water supply that randomly determines the ethnicity of a child regardless of parentage. It'd be really hilarious to release that without telling anybody, and then sit back and laugh your head off as three quarters of the marriages in the world fall apart as every man on Earth becomes ...

Why are you so obsessed with keeping it in the past? What does it really matter either way?

Anyone read the most recent Peter Hamilton novel, Pandora's Star?

It has space elves that are actually elves.

And if one really wishes to be pedantic, the use of terms like parsecs, which is based on the earth's orbit around the sun, require an earth-centric perspective. Well, somehow I doubt they speak English in a galaxy far, far away either, so it was obviously translated by the filmmakers, who almost c...

i believe everyones missing somthing, 100,000 years ago might not be a long time ago, but i believe it is said long long ago in a glaxy far far away, i believe long long ago would be the same thing as long squared. and somone said sommthing about humans origimating form earth, nothing in the starwa...

Pierson's Puppeteers. I always love how cockamamie Niven makes his aliens.

Or just flatout distrust on the part of the Geonosian's led to them giving Dooku subpar plans.

Maybe it shunts a certain diameter to hyperspace, and usually the proximity to massive bodies and/or lack of some sort of time dilators ala Saxton tends to destroy the material, or leave targets stranded in hyperspace. That's just trying to match the description though. The name thermal detonator te...

On Mike's hatemail page, http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/HateMail/Brin.html , he discusses an essay by David Brin. The essay concerns itself with the morality and politics of star wars and star trek. Has anyone else noticed (with amusement) the similarities between Brin's critisisms of the Jedi ...

It could have happened a million years ago or a million years from now. A long time ago :P But it's never established WHEN the story is being told. "A long time ago" in the year 3000 is different than "A long time ago" now. That's how I've come to interpret it also. Star Wars is...

The Gil stories are great. Another great story along these lines is "Business as Usual, During Alterations" by Ralph Williams. In it some concerned galactic civilization decides that our current civilization is too greedy and violent, so they decide a matter duplicator is the best way to c...

It really plays to Pournelle's strengths too. The CoDominium universe prior to the introduction of the Moties is very much an expression of Pournelle's views on political science, which is what he has his doctorate in, along with psychology. Niven's talent is in coming up with bizarre as hell aliens...

Looks like "Earth that Was" isn't synonamous with "Earth that Ain't" It could be a prologue or flashback. Yeah, but the whole line about earth being used up makes me think it is just uninhabitable now. Might be neat to see it isn't any good for decent folk, but acts as home for ...

Looks like "Earth that Was" isn't synonamous with "Earth that Ain't"

During what can be taken as Captain Adderly of the Canada 's musings the Formoria is described as: The Talon -class Sauron heavy crusier Formoria was still out there, a ship as fearsome as the reputation of her commander. Sauron heavy cruisers were designed to be all-purpose vessels, carrying fighte...

Midshipman Staley was of Sauron descent, but I'm almost certain that not all Saurons were the Sauron Supermen. I recall from The Mote In God's Eye that there were never that many Supermen to begin with, their numbers were in the thousands, but those thousands were such bastards that it caused the f...

There are still problems involved, such as the difficulty it introduces in docking, or the fact that the artificial gravity will cost energy to cancel the Coriolis force. Plus, Coriolis force is velocity dependent, so the computer would constantly have to adjust it for each person on the station ba...

There are still problems involved, such as the difficulty it introduces in docking, or the fact that the artificial gravity will cost energy to cancel the Coriolis force. Plus, Coriolis force is velocity dependent, so the computer would constantly have to adjust it for each person on the station bas...

Short term, they may well anhiliate the Moties. They share certain advantages over baseline humans, such as having more flexible minds as regards to 3D, but overall the Saurons aren't all that much smarter, and were killed by underestimating the Empire and being too predictable. Depending on the tim...

Yeah, but if you read "Face of the Enemy" by Don Hawthorne, First Rank Deittinger is described as having straight, white hair. Granted, he's a model over fifty years old compared to Brenda Curtis' being in her twenties maybe. Or it could be that ground troops have the battlefro's, and vess...

And a little point that the fans seem so gaga over is this melding of Chinese American culture. Well,...where the hell are the Asians? China's population is much larger than ours to begin with as of now. So we should be seeing the exact opposite of what we see in this show. Lots of Asians, few West...

So, a story about the first voyage to Mars would be science fiction, the story about the second voyage to Mars is just a drama set in space. (Unless they discover something new again). But then, a lot of people think Ben Bova is an asshole. Unless said sequel concerns Anasazi alien ruins in Valles ...

But did he buy her for business, or because he met her and fell in love? Maybe the Lars family was better off till Cleag mortgaged the back forty to buy his slave-order bride?

If you're interested in the CoDominium universe, the Falkenberk's Legion and Go Tell the Spartans stories have bee released in one volume called the Prince. Otherwise everything is written in the War World series and King David's Spaceship, although you may find an older version called a Spaceship f...

It could well be that the US completed Manifest Destiny, but that the spanish elements were junior partners to begin with, and were just reduced to even less importance after the Sino-American alliance formed.

It doesn't have to be one or the other, it can be one then the other.