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

In article <1jw7tzgrtvfrc.9t5wo5dh14i1$.dlg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Alexey Romanov  <alexey_r@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On 1 May 2008 12:33:24 -0400, James Nicoll wrote:
>
>> Title                             Author                 Publication
>>                                                             Date
>
>> KITTY TAKES A HOLIDAY             Vaughn, Carrie	
>> 
>> 	One of Kitty's friends has to deal with an unwanted life-style
>> change while another is forced to deal with the startling revelation 
>> that killing helpless people is illegal in several jurisdictions in USA
[1].
>> 
>> 	I love the Kitty novels but her friend****p with a couple of the
>> sup****ting characters is as odd as Barak Obama having a Grand Wizard of
>> the Klu Klux Klan as a close personal friend. I'm all for having a wide
>> variety of friends but I draw the line at people whose lifestyle seems
to
>> depend on shooting people like me. 
>> 
>> 1: Unless you're a cop and the person being shot is black, in which
case
>> it's still OK.
>
>They aren't shooting "people like Kitty" (i.e. werewolves, vampires,
etc.)
>in general, only the rogue ones. And WVEs kill rogues as well.

	Yeah, and I'm sure if we asked the KKK would have said they
only went after rogue Negroes, Jews and Catholics.  There's no reason
to think that properly-briefed cops couldn't deal with the various
spookies that break the law and less reason for a werewolf to hang 
out with people who seem to have made hunting werewolves a central
part of their lives. 
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