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

In article <fvoobr$4lm$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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William December Starr <wdstarr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>In article <fvnast$jso$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (James Nicoll) said:
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>[ re Karen Traviss' independent and media tie-in works ]
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>> 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.)

	The world view presented in SW is that robo-slavery is perfectly
OK. In fact IIRC one of the Jedi finds the idea that robots might want
to be self-owning hilarious.

	
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