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

On Tue, 6 May 2008 15:54:04 +0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (James Nicoll)
wrote:

>In article <fvoobr$4lm$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>William December Starr <wdstarr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>In article <fvnast$jso$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>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.)

>	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.

I sense a need for a Star Wars/Freefall crossover.

....preferably without the Florence/Chewbacca furry slash.


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