arby, Downbelow Station won Cherryh the Hugo award the year it came out. It's very very plotty and more than a bit expositiony, but worth reading, since it's the first novel set in the Alliance/Union universe, and explains a fair amount of the backstory and the politics. It's the Big Political side of the situation that Merchanter's Luck looks at from the perspective of a small trader. So the main characters are the family who run Downbelow Station, some of the Downbelow natives, Signy Mallory the ship captain, and so forth.
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Consuela - Jan 03, 2005 8:32:58 am PST #117 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
reequeen - Jan 03, 2005 9:04:14 am PST #118 of 10001
"It's got to be the hair, Cotton. It's beautiful! Feathered and lethal. You just don't see it nowadays." Pepper Brooks - Dodgeball
Frankenbuddha:
Is it better than Shakespeare's Gay Boys in Bondage ?
I don't know how Shakespeare knew, several hundred years before it happened, about the biggest band to come out of Idaho. Perhaps you've heard of their album, "68 Goin' On 69"?
Frankenbuddha - Jan 03, 2005 9:07:40 am PST #119 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I don't know how Shakespeare knew, several hundred years before it happened, about the biggest band to come out of Idaho. Perhaps you've heard of their album, "68 Goin' On 69"?
"Gay Boys in Bondage" is also an old Monty Python skit (and may be the episode title).
reequeen - Jan 03, 2005 9:08:49 am PST #120 of 10001
"It's got to be the hair, Cotton. It's beautiful! Feathered and lethal. You just don't see it nowadays." Pepper Brooks - Dodgeball
"Gay Boys in Bondage" is also an old Monty Python skit (and may be the episode title)
Hmmm. I remember the band. Wanna see my concert tickets? T-shirt? ;-D
arby - Jan 03, 2005 9:12:46 am PST #121 of 10001
Guy #1: Man, there are so many hipsters around. I hate hipsters! Guy #2: You're at the wrong place. That's like going to Vegas only to say "I hate titties!" --The Warsaw, Williamsburg (OINY)
a ha - thanks Consuela. So if I read Downbelow Station first, then Merchanter's Luck I might have some more background on what's going on.
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Mr. Broom - Jan 03, 2005 9:47:51 am PST #122 of 10001
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
There's a whole Pirate/Ninja/Dwarf/Elf Ontology...If the bastard spawn of an elf and a dwarf is a dwelf, than what do we call the lovechild of a ninja and a pirate? And would he prefer the cutlass or the katana?
Frankenbuddha - Jan 03, 2005 9:49:52 am PST #123 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
what do we call the lovechild of a ninja and a pirate
A nitrate?
Or PINJA!
reequeen - Jan 03, 2005 9:50:16 am PST #124 of 10001
"It's got to be the hair, Cotton. It's beautiful! Feathered and lethal. You just don't see it nowadays." Pepper Brooks - Dodgeball
If the bastard spawn of an elf and a dwarf is a dwelf, than what do we call the lovechild of a ninja and a pirate? And would he prefer the cutlass or the katana?
Pirinja. Cutlana.
Beverly - Jan 03, 2005 9:52:24 am PST #125 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
arby, conversely, Merchanter's Luck is terse and relatively short. If you like dense and plotty, go Downbelow Station first. But if you're not sure you're going to like the 'verse, Luck might be a good appetiser.
tommyrot - Jan 03, 2005 9:52:37 am PST #126 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
than what do we call the lovechild of a ninja and a pirate? And would he prefer the cutlass or the katana?
There would come a time in the child's life when he or she would have to choose one way, and either follow the pirate path, or that of the ninja. Much like how Spock had to choose the human or the Vulcan way as a child.