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Re: Who do you rate as your best read in science fiction?

From Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
Newsgroups rec.arts.sf.written
Subject Re: Who do you rate as your best read in science fiction?
Date 2018-05-01 19:36 -0700
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On 5/1/2018 4:49 PM, J. Clarke wrote:
> On Tue, 1 May 2018 12:10:38 -0700 (PDT), mcdowell_ag@sky.com wrote:
> 
>> On Tuesday, May 1, 2018 at 4:49:37 PM UTC+1, Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha wrote:
>>> djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote in
>>> news:p81AwD.1B6M@kithrup.com:
>>>
>>>> In article <XnsA8D4D201099C5taustincagmailcom@69.16.179.42>,
>>>> Ninapenda Jibini  <taustinca@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote in
>>>>> news:k1efed9btdsnjfmaphtja37monaa9pfm7t@4ax.com:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm waiting for Nimitz to learn how to handle a starship.  After
>>>>>> all he's been picking the brain of the most capable military
>>>>>> commander in the universe for decades.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Weber finally introduce Captain Kirk to the Honorverse?
>>>>>
>>>> Astrid Anderson (now Bear) and I once wrote a fanfic linking Star
>>>> Trek TOS to the Lensmen.  Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), I
>>>> don't have it any more.  Three moves equal one fire.
>>>>
>>> I once proposed, in the David Weber fan group, that if Kirk and
>>> Harrington ever met, not only would he kick her ass, but she'd like
>>> and they'd end up in bed together. I was disappointed in the small
>>> number of death threats I got.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Terry Austin
>>>
>>> Vacation photos from Iceland:
>>> https://plus.google.com/u/0/collection/QaXQkB
>>>
>>> "Terry Austin: like the polio vaccine, only with more asshole."
>>>      -- David Bilek
>>>
>>> Jesus forgives sinners, not criminals.
>>
>> My impression of Kirk is that he tends to lose fair fights against opponents with a superhuman edge, which would include Harrington's genetic engineering. He does tend to get the girl, though, and when push comes to shove you tend to find out that Kirk has found a way to arrange for something other than a fair fight.
> 
> So basically she'd kick his ass and they'd _still_ end up in bed
> together.
> 
>> PS - thinking of Admiral Byng and the 12th Article of War from https://www.hmsrichmond.org/rnarticles.htm and the phrase "or shall not do his utmost to take or destroy every ship which it shall be his duty to engage"  - I think fair fights are illegal if unfair advantages are to be had.
> 
> But Harrington knows dirty tricks that Kirk hasn't even dreamed of.
> After all, she's been at war for longer than Kirk's been alive.
> 
But Kirk cheats.  :)

-- 
Inquiring minds want to know while minds with a self-preservation 
instinct are running screaming.

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