Re: F&SF that I Read in 2007: T

In article <fvnast$jso$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (James Nicoll) said:

[ re Karen Traviss' independent and media tie-in works ]

> CITY OF PEARL gave me the impression that the author is a lefty
> treehugger who defaults to seeing humans as a pestilence on the
> universe.
>
> STAR WARS is a lot more interesting if its written from the POV
> of someone who doesn't instinctively think aristocracies are a
> good thing and who can see the downside of how robots and
> clone-soldiers are treated.

There's an upside?  (Once you assume/demonstrate/decree that the
robots/droids are self-aware, anyway.)

-- 
William December Starr <wdstarr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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