Unnamed lensman/ culture fic.

Currald · Post by **Currald** » 2003-11-11 04:53pm

A few nit-picky flavor things:

I cannot imagine someone from Civilization commenting negatively in any way on someone's tobacco use. Tobacco is so universally accepted that it is considered rude to speak against any but the stinkiest cheap cigar. Considering their rather puritanical attitudes toward other addictive substances, I can only assume that tobacco isn't addictive anymore.

Civilization is spelled with a "z," not an "s." Doc Smith would be very adamant about that.

FBHthelizardmage · Post by **FBHthelizardmage** » 2003-11-12 01:21pm

Currald wrote:A few nit-picky flavor things:

I cannot imagine someone from Civilization commenting negatively in any way on someone's tobacco use. Tobacco is so universally accepted that it is considered rude to speak against any but the stinkiest cheap cigar. Considering their rather puritanical attitudes toward other addictive substances, I can only assume that tobacco isn't addictive anymore.

Well this is 30 years after the last book, so I'd assume there'd be some societal change. Basically I'm assuming they've found that smoking is bad for you.

Civilization is spelled with a "z," not an "s." Doc Smith would be very adamant about that.

ooopppss

Sorry this isn't an update

Singular Quartet · Post by **Singular Quartet** » 2003-11-12 05:14pm

FBHthelizardmage wrote:
Currald wrote:A few nit-picky flavor things:

I cannot imagine someone from Civilization commenting negatively in any way on someone's tobacco use. Tobacco is so universally accepted that it is considered rude to speak against any but the stinkiest cheap cigar. Considering their rather puritanical attitudes toward other addictive substances, I can only assume that tobacco isn't addictive anymore.
Well this is 30 years after the last book, so I'd assume there'd be some societal change. Basically I'm assuming they've found that smoking is bad for you.
Civilization is spelled with a "z," not an "s." Doc Smith would be very adamant about that.
ooopppss

Sorry this isn't an update

Quite alright. And somehow, I doubt any civilization or culture would change that much in thirty years.

Unless it was communist. Then it could be changed in thirty years, and with a deciededly sudden decrease in population. But not in a benevolent dictatership.

Currald · Post by **Currald** » 2003-11-15 04:01am

Hmmm... thirty years after the last book. If things ever get bad enough for the Patrol, I imagine that the Children would get personally involved. God help the Culture then...

FBHthelizardmage · Post by **FBHthelizardmage** » 2003-11-15 07:21am

Currald wrote:Hmmm... thirty years after the last book. If things ever get bad enough for the Patrol, I imagine that the Children would get personally involved. God help the Culture then...

To avoid god shock I'm going to keep the CoL and the sublime out of this.

Singular Quartet · Post by **Singular Quartet** » 2003-11-15 02:19pm

Currald wrote:Hmmm... thirty years after the last book. If things ever get bad enough for the Patrol, I imagine that the Children would get personally involved. God help the Culture then...

They might, actually. The "God(s)" I mean. They're called the sublimed, you see. They are, essentialy, what happens when an individual, group, or spiecies just deciedes to hit the "fuck-it-all" button. Granted, they don't, nessicarily, help out anybody, but there have been speacial cases. There was a case where a section of a spiecies sublimed to create an actual afterlife for the rest of their spiecies.

XANATOS · Post by **XANATOS** » 2003-11-15 09:07pm

the lensmen need no help
not even if the god like beings
are fool enough to get involved
dont believe me read the lensman books
the lensmen are not a bunch of star trek
pussys

XANATOS

Singular Quartet · Post by **Singular Quartet** » 2003-11-16 12:58am

XANATOS wrote:the lensmen need no help
not even if the god like beings
are fool enough to get involved
dont believe me read the lensman books
the lensmen are not a bunch of star trek
pussys

XANATOS

What is it with you and using line breaks? And no punctuation, capitalization, and flauting the rules of grammer. It gets rather annoying, you know?

Two, the Culture is holdings its own, and they haven't even gone to total war yet... Lensman are so dead...

Currald · Post by **Currald** » 2003-11-18 02:00am

Civilization's expeditionary force is probably dead, but I seriously doubt that the Culture can mount a counterattack into another universe.

HRogge · Post by **HRogge** » 2003-11-18 08:07am

Currald wrote:Civilization's expeditionary force is probably dead, but I seriously doubt that the Culture can mount a counterattack into another universe.

If they aquire a working "wormholegenerator" they could do it easily...

Currald · Post by **Currald** » 2003-11-18 01:30pm

Well, that's the real trick, isn't it?

XANATOS · Post by **XANATOS** » 2003-12-22 06:23pm

Time to start wirting again

XANATOS

HRogge · Post by **HRogge** » 2003-12-22 06:26pm

Currald wrote:Well, that's the real trick, isn't it?

Maybe they could build a trojan horse... EDUST is fun !

Singular Quartet · Post by **Singular Quartet** » 2003-12-22 06:44pm

HRogge wrote:
Currald wrote:Well, that's the real trick, isn't it?
Maybe they could build a trojan horse... EDUST is fun !

EDust ain't around for another 800 hundred years.

HRogge · Post by **HRogge** » 2003-12-22 07:04pm

Singular Quartet wrote:EDust ain't around for another 800 hundred years.

Damn... okay, then just a VERY small robot... something that can pretend to be a bug

Currald · Post by **Currald** » 2004-01-22 05:42pm

Singular Quartet wrote:Quite alright. And somehow, I doubt any civilization or culture would change that much in thirty years.

Unless it was communist. Then it could be changed in thirty years, and with a deciededly sudden decrease in population. But not in a benevolent dictatership.

Civilization is not a dictatorship. Its Galactic Council is elected.

Mlenk · Post by **Mlenk** » 2004-01-22 05:45pm

*really wishes the author would start writing again*

XANATOS · Post by **XANATOS** » 2004-02-08 08:27pm

Has this fan fic died

I hope not but a new installment of the epic story of the death of the
culture is long over due

XANATOS

XANATOS · Post by **XANATOS** » 2004-03-24 02:49pm

please write another chapter
leaving your fans hanging like this cruel

XANATOS

Singular Quartet · Post by **Singular Quartet** » 2004-03-24 03:43pm

*smacks XANATOS for resurrecting a dead thread.*

If the author's going to keep going, then he'll either bring the thread back to the first page, or he'll just post a new chapter in a new thread.