Trudy, I am here.
I am not attacking Stephen King. I'm saying that Crichton's use of science has more in common with SK's use of the rules horror than it does with the use of science.
A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend.
Willow ,'Conversations with Dead People'
The Minearverse 3: The Network Is a Harsh Mistress
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Gus - Jun 25, 2004 4:45:28 pm PDT #828 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Trudy Booth - Jun 25, 2004 4:48:36 pm PDT #829 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
t does happy dance of Gus Is Here
You still alarming/titilating the housekeeping staff?
Gus - Jun 25, 2004 4:54:23 pm PDT #830 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
(Trudy, there is now a story I will someday tell you. You will be less alarmed than titillated, I warrant.)
Polter-Cow - Jun 25, 2004 5:40:58 pm PDT #831 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Crichton defenders of Polter Cow's ilk are dead to me.
People who don't put the hyphen in my fucking name are dead to me.
sticks tongue out at Gus, reads Jurassic Park for the fourth time
Trudy Booth - Jun 25, 2004 5:45:21 pm PDT #832 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
(ah, but will I be intensely jealous?)
Gus - Jun 25, 2004 5:49:44 pm PDT #833 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Polter-fucking-Cow, alright?
Intellgent dude, P-C. Spends his Saturdays in the lab, making the future come true. If he wants to read the Harvey Comics version of science fiction in his off-time, that is his bidness.
Polter-Cow - Jun 25, 2004 6:39:11 pm PDT #834 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Lyra Jane - Jun 25, 2004 6:39:51 pm PDT #835 of 10001
Up with the sun
Journalists are taught to use said because other verbs often imply a judgement about the person. I think said is usually transparent, so I tend to use it myself, but there are plenty of situations where other words are better.
DXMachina - Jun 25, 2004 6:49:48 pm PDT #836 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Polter, you should take that to spoilers and delete here.
Beverly - Jun 25, 2004 7:50:00 pm PDT #837 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
On the said issue, I've always preferred an attribution by action.
"No," the conductor's baton descended in a savage stroke and he turned to the first violin. "Did you study music in a cave? Play that line again."
No "said" in sight.
Also, as much as I love Cherryh's sf, she's one of the few writers who can do lyrical mythology and fantasy just as well as hard-edged science.