tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13336104.post7970912834265232093..comments2024-01-07T13:24:03.640+00:00Comments on Nothing Tra La La?: Starship pensioners0tralalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06818587472660040921noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13336104.post-57879467185296937442008-04-01T21:24:00.000+01:002008-04-01T21:24:00.000+01:00Thanks for the link Liadnan - interesting stuff. A...Thanks for the link Liadnan - interesting stuff. And Dave, I'd refer you to the conversation on p. 285 in which it discusses Jane being and not being who she looks like.<BR/><BR/>It's creepy and weird, but the book does acknowledge that that's the case!0tralalahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06818587472660040921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13336104.post-18348024376230818672008-04-01T21:16:00.000+01:002008-04-01T21:16:00.000+01:00I thought the prose was good and easy to read, but...I thought the prose was good and easy to read, but besides the Mary Sue-ism of the main character just being so good at and right about eveything you mentioned, I found the whole being in love with a clone of your wife kind of creepy. It would seem to reduce her to just her physical state and ignores the life experiences that makes a person who they are.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13336104.post-23491886911950282822008-04-01T20:35:00.000+01:002008-04-01T20:35:00.000+01:00It's worth noting that Scalzi has now made clear W...It's worth noting that Scalzi has now made clear We Don't Know Everything Yet, possibly not anything. The black and whiteness, and brushing over the ethics is deliberate and the next books will make everything clearer or murkier. (Ie think the self-subversion of the film of Starship Troopers as much as Heinlein's novel, I guess). My friend nhw wrote an uncomplimentary review which resulted in threads both there and on Scalzi's own blog. Follow up post with relevant links here http://nhw.livejournal.com/643512.html )<BR/><BR/>That said, I wasn't really grabbed myself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com