@Ogiel23@SandyofCthulhu Lol, "collaborative skills". One thing I didn't like about Reacher was how the side characters seemed pretty useless and unable to solve their own problems, but of course this rag blames the white man instead for not having "collaborative skills".
@lyndseyfifield@JoseKhanuicy@freedomfromlib Not fair, it's a trick. Anyone who says this had already disregarded you for opposing Platner and is looking for a plausible excuse. If you hadn't mentioned TDS, they'd find something else. A bad faith effort to keep you contained while they sideline you, just like the Times did.
John Blanche's 'Eternity Gate' was a tremendous influence on me when I first saw it in the 90's.
It's difficult to express how much it reframed how I saw worldbuilding and visions of the future