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

by ted@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) May 10, 2008 at 06:51 PM

In article <g04hdn$8a2$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
James Nicoll <jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>
>In article <1jw7tzgrtvfrc.9t5wo5dh14i1$.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. 

And Buffy would never fall for Angel, and it sure didn't make sense
that Romeo & Juliet would fall in love..

Contra-logical love matches are a staple of fiction

				Ted
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F&SF that I Read in 2007: V
jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2008-05-01 12:33:24 
Re: F&SF that I Read in 2007: V
"Mike Schilling&quo  2008-05-01 10:39:45 
Re: F&SF that I Read in 2007: V
William George Ferguson &  2008-05-01 14:54:22 
Re: F&SF that I Read in 2007: V
Alexey Romanov <alexey  2008-05-10 12:30:52 
Re: F&SF that I Read in 2007: V
jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2008-05-10 16:10:31 
Re: F&SF that I Read in 2007: V
ted@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (T  2008-05-10 18:51:46 
Re: F&SF that I Read in 2007: V
jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2008-05-10 20:10:59 
Re: F&SF that I Read in 2007: V
acwheele@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2008-05-10 20:35:36 
Re: F&SF that I Read in 2007: V
ted@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (T  2008-05-11 01:20:52 

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