Kzin lession anyone?
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Corvus 501
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Re: Kzin lession anyone?
The link's a YouTube video of terrified cats.
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Re: Kzin lession anyone?
The link that's in your poll options? I'm reporting this as spam.
Are you drunk? No serious question, have you been drinking today?
Are you drunk? No serious question, have you been drinking today?
Re: Kzin lession anyone?
Dominus Atheos wrote:Are you drunk? No serious question, have you been drinking today?
Re: Kzin lession anyone?
one day ban until he sobers up.
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A decision must be made in the life of every nation at the very moment when the grasp of the enemy is at its throat. Then, it seems that the only way to survive is to use the means of the enemy, to rest survival upon what is expedient, to look the other way. Well, the answer to that is 'survival as what'? A country isn't a rock. It's not an extension of one's self. It's what it stands for. It's what it stands for when standing for something is the most difficult! - Chief Judge Haywood
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Re: Kzin lession anyone?
In an attempt to salvage something by at least pointing anyone curious to some worthwhile SF, the "Kzinti lesson" predates Niven and the Kzinti themselves.
Murray Leinster's Med Ship series had Calhoun using the high-energy rocket exhaust of his (otherwise unarmed) starship as a weapon under a wide variety of circumstances... in the 1950s.
Of course, Leinster invented a lot of science fiction's major tropes, or at least made them popular enough to catch on; he's the only person who could unironically title a first contact story First Contact, and was the first to be called 'dean of Science Fiction' for a reason.
Murray Leinster's Med Ship series had Calhoun using the high-energy rocket exhaust of his (otherwise unarmed) starship as a weapon under a wide variety of circumstances... in the 1950s.
Of course, Leinster invented a lot of science fiction's major tropes, or at least made them popular enough to catch on; he's the only person who could unironically title a first contact story First Contact, and was the first to be called 'dean of Science Fiction' for a reason.
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