WhenUrukFell

Re-imagining future & past. Committing rants at random. #amwriting #flashfic #fantasy #scifi #PulpRev Editor at EXTANT! SF

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And here's the latest storified version of "When Strangers Meet" - a #redtower #fantasy #serial https://t.co/3MT6EP3zdM Want more?

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In which I return from Beyond. I will be silent for a while, I think, but hope to work this back into my schedule soon(ish)

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Apologies. Live. Emcon til Friday.

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@tuesdayreviews @reason So even abroad, the influence is important.

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@tuesdayreviews @reason That said: my sense is that many variations were for US travellers.

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@tuesdayreviews @reason No question the sheer exuberance is unparalelled. But quite a bit of development has been in Europe & Asia and returned.

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@tuesdayreviews @reason Just saying they would have been back. One nation's gov't can't kill something so good.

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@tuesdayreviews @reason To be clear, not objecting to cocktail as American invention or to US gov't idiocy as potential death of American cocktails.

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@tuesdayreviews @reason True, but exported everywhere. So like so many things US might have been bereft, but rest of the world would've had cocktails to reimport.

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@DaytimeRenegade @RawleNyanziFTL @jondelarroz @thebencheah @JimFear138 @BrianNiemeier @NotJonMollison @cirsova I think the movie captures the unheroic nature of Gor well though.

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@DaytimeRenegade @RawleNyanziFTL @jondelarroz @thebencheah @JimFear138 @BrianNiemeier @NotJonMollison @cirsova Don't think so. It doesn't really have the genius of "so bad its good" films of the period. It's not so terrible, but alsi hasn't the draw.

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@RawleNyanziFTL @DaytimeRenegade @jondelarroz @thebencheah @JimFear138 @BrianNiemeier @NotJonMollison @cirsova Meh. It's not all that. Not that closely related to the books among other things. Actually kind of interesting as example of era low budget?

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In some reference frame, @CassiniSaturn has already vaporized. From our vantage point, it's signaling.

Cassini is dead. Long live Cassini.

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@tuesdayreviews @reason Yah cause like the US is everywhere? Actually cocktails would have been fine but Americans would have been bereft.

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A confession: so anyway, I watched Cassini die live and I cried. If this ending didn't move you fuck you anyway.

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@RawleNyanziFTL @DaytimeRenegade @jondelarroz @thebencheah @JimFear138 @BrianNiemeier @NotJonMollison @cirsova #8 by the way completes the arc of Tarl transforming into Bosk. It's not a bad place to stop. But neither's 3. Your call. 4-8 will be work.

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@RawleNyanziFTL @DaytimeRenegade @jondelarroz @thebencheah @JimFear138 @BrianNiemeier @NotJonMollison @cirsova +an independent being to utter slavery. It *could* have been a much more interesting book, but that theme is still there.

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@RawleNyanziFTL @DaytimeRenegade @jondelarroz @thebencheah @JimFear138 @BrianNiemeier @NotJonMollison @cirsova Back to 8 though: thing is, between the cheap sex scenes and puerile fantasy it's a pretty sophisticated story of transformation from+

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@RawleNyanziFTL @DaytimeRenegade @jondelarroz @thebencheah @JimFear138 @BrianNiemeier @NotJonMollison @cirsova It's been a while since I read them. Looking back, I wonder if the later books were mocking people who took them too seriously.

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@RawleNyanziFTL @DaytimeRenegade @jondelarroz @thebencheah @JimFear138 @BrianNiemeier @NotJonMollison @cirsova Number 8 is a hideous travesty that probably shouldn't have seen print though. Turgid and apparently pointless. But maybe it was too deep?

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@RawleNyanziFTL @DaytimeRenegade @jondelarroz @thebencheah @JimFear138 @BrianNiemeier @NotJonMollison @cirsova The interesting thing is what happens to the books when he moves from Ballantine to DAW - book 7 is much deeper than the writing suggests.