I think the Humbled's loyalty to TC outweigh their need to prevent Linden from doing something else desecration-like. I mean, they are maimed to look like him... Actually, it's a minor point, but one that kept annoying me slightly, but I thought that when the Humbled were first introduced it was ma...

I'll have a go at Whatever the Cost...

I thought cutting out that part (a move strongly recommended by Lester del Rey) had to do with not violating the premise that the Land is Covenant's dream. I'm glad it got cut, since precisely the same plot device was used in TWL. Instead of encountering a forest as in GF that they couldn't go arou...

As far as I can recall, the most extensive description of the farming and animal husbandry in the Land is actually contained in "Gilden Fire" as Lord Hyrim (?) etc leave Revelstone and head east. There is a description of them passing through the worked land which gives a better idea of th...

Didn't the same thing happen to TC's robe in LFB? While going through Morinmoss? (sp?) Did we ever find out what it meant? Didn't he wake up in hospital in a green hospital gown at the end of the particular book (WGW)? I thought the white robe stained green was intended to be a reference to the gre...

Now you're making me have to research this. I may post later. Having my deficiencies of recall over a five volume epic pointed out I can live with - that won't affect my self esteem! :) There was definitely something that Holt Fasner had been penny pinching with - though it may have been the Gap Dr...

You agree with me, and then you go on to disagree with me. The fear element over-rode the Earth's military capability, for example, having the technology but being afraid to use it. [/quote] OK - double apologies - I guess I need things spelled out explicitly to understand them! I completely and ut...

We were all "prepared" for the eventuality of nuclear war. But we weren't psychologically prepared for it. Not many were. Maybe some nuts hiding in fall-out shelters all their lives. And really, the Amnion were considered worse than the Soviets, far worse, provoking a kind of terror that ...

Remember the Cold War? I don't know your age so I don't know if you lived through any of it. But what would be the American response if a Soviet MiG was detected flying into American air space? How about a dozen? Sorry, I just realised that you misunderstood my point (because the wording was ambigu...

It felt enough like real politics (ie, everyone has their own reasoning & interpretation) that it didn't bother me. I was so immersed in the complexities of the plot that I never even noticed it (and wouldn't have done had someone much smarter than me pointed it out here!) It's largely just nit...

It felt enough like real politics (ie, everyone has their own reasoning & interpretation) that it didn't bother me. I was so immersed in the complexities of the plot that I never even noticed it (and wouldn't have done had someone much smarter than me pointed it out here!) It's largely just nit...

Hashi Lebwohl wrote:

Barnetto wrote:Sorry, but I don't accept this.

Fortunately, you don't have to.

Thanks for the confirmation!

The resolution to this apparent discrepancy is easily attained: the truth of the Preempt Act, whether you are told that is was because Com-Mine Security was actually involved in collusion to commit crimes or merely allowed one illegal to entrap another (dereliction of duty), is irrelevant. Only the...

Zarathustra wrote:Has anyone else noticed the similarities between The Woman Who Loved Pigs and Fatal Revenant??? I'm finishing the story now. When I do, I'll post in the FR forum. It's really amazing, all the parallels.

Just looked for your post and couldn't find anything in FR - did you post on this topic?

You are probably right - though I thought the example given of the farmer and the master suggested that the moral code might be universal amongst those practicising the martial arts? In any event, it still doesn't work for me - the shin-te was merely passing the choice back to the nerishi-qua - and ...

True, but it did help me visualise some of the places much more clearly than I could from the text - such as Bhrathrair.

And it helpfully has a location timeline too.

The resolution to this apparent discrepancy is easily attained: the truth of the Preempt Act, whether you are told that is was because Com-Mine Security was actually involved in collusion to commit crimes or merely allowed one illegal to entrap another (dereliction of duty), is irrelevant. Only the...

Actually just at the very same point in the book that you were when you posted this. Despite being someone who doesn't generally like short stories, I am enjoying these a lot. However, as I posted elsewhere, "The Killing Stroke" just doesn't work for me. Just pure sophistry! By contrast (a...

Just reading Reave the Just and other stories for the first time and actually the Killing Stroke is my least favourite! I'm probably going to reveal my simplicity and ignorance here but... OK - I like the twist at the end whereby the White Lords are shown to be dogmatic and suppressors of knowledge ...

6 REASONS WHY I DON'T LIKE THE LAST CHRONS AND AATE IN PARTICULAR. 1. The total loss of opportunity that the Last Chrons represents re our chance to explore this wonderful world that Donaldson created in the first Chrons and maintained in the second. We'll never now get to go through the Guards Gap...