Ellison seems to be one of the biggest producers of flame-bait in the genre. As another poster can tell you, his "other works" include plenty of rudeness and funky opinions. I'll tell you a story about him -- most of you probably won't know it.
Once upon a time, Harlan lived in NYC and shared an apartment with another guy who I will call "B." (I forget his name, and no, it wasn't me;) Both of them were into SF, and both into jazz and had large music collections on vinyl LPs.
Anyway, at one point both of them were out of town at a Con of some sort, and they got into an argument about the identity of the musicians on a particular album. They then made a bet (which would be paid when they both got home to check what it said on the back of the cover), that the loser would forfeit his entire music collection to the winner.
Harlan got home first and discovered that he had lost! His solution was to print up a forgery of the offending album cover with just the necessary details changed and glue it over the original. When B. got home (and quickly discovered the trickery), a fight ensued.
Harlan pulled out a pistol and shot up the place. Eventually the cops came and dragged them both off to jail. Friends of B. came and posted his bond rather quickly, but Harlan was left there for about 4 more days. Nobody liked the guy enough to get him out of jail!
Cat Asaro is generally a pretty decent writer, but by the fourth one I was starting to get bored of the concepts involved (especially the "mandatory sadist" sub-race. I haven't read this one but it's nice to see her get something for once. (Don't knock SF-romance crossovers until you've tried one.)
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Before it was NIMA, it was the DMA (Defense Mapping Agency).
I worked there for 4 years as a contractor - as a developer on the front-end for the imagery systems...
And what if I grow a beard?
Is it just me or did anyone else misread the title with "forces" as a noun and "rethink" as a verb?
So just write "Kallisti" on the top of the OOo package. Problem solved.
The logo ought to be a golden apple with "Kallisti" written on it, too, right?
Ltris has this feature(?) too. It's called "Expert Mode" there. I haven't compared them to see which is more evil (how's that for a fun activity?)
Well, maybe you'd be in trouble, but it would rule for a few of us out here... I'd never be laid off again ;)
Ellison seems to be one of the biggest producers of flame-bait in the genre. As another poster can tell you, his "other works" include plenty of rudeness and funky opinions. I'll tell you a story about him -- most of you probably won't know it.
Once upon a time, Harlan lived in NYC and shared an apartment with another guy who I will call "B." (I forget his name, and no, it wasn't me
Anyway, at one point both of them were out of town at a Con of some sort, and they got into an argument about the identity of the musicians on a particular album. They then made a bet (which would be paid when they both got home to check what it said on the back of the cover), that the loser would forfeit his entire music collection to the winner.
Harlan got home first and discovered that he had lost! His solution was to print up a forgery of the offending album cover with just the necessary details changed and glue it over the original. When B. got home (and quickly discovered the trickery), a fight ensued.
Harlan pulled out a pistol and shot up the place. Eventually the cops came and dragged them both off to jail. Friends of B. came and posted his bond rather quickly, but Harlan was left there for about 4 more days. Nobody liked the guy enough to get him out of jail!
Cat Asaro is generally a pretty decent writer, but by the fourth one I was starting to get bored of the concepts involved (especially the "mandatory sadist" sub-race. I haven't read this one but it's nice to see her get something for once. (Don't knock SF-romance crossovers until you've tried one.)
Sounds more like Stephen R Donaldson than JRR Tolkien...