So I was just wikipedia-dipping and discovered that one of the two stories in Soon I Shall Be Invincible is a complete rip of the Tomorrow Woman storyline.

the King short story mentioned above may be a lit equivalent of an ita link

I am chilled.

And I'm compelled to read it now.

After I read a King short story where rats in caves mutated to eyeless rat I was done with King short stories. I have a giant mutation squick.

mutation squick.

not the squick here.

Anyone read the new Kushiel book yet? I'm about 15 pages from the end, and kinda wondering [edit: all about tone/pacing, nothing spoilery re: actual events] if her editor sent it back to her saying "You need to wrap this up more quickly", or if she just got bored, or what. It's...oddly paced. I feel like all of her other books have been so intricately plotted and DENSE, and this book feels like the first 90%...well, no. It's not that a lot didn't HAPPEN. And yet, it somehow didn't feel as though it did. And then the last 50 pages is wrapping it all up verrrrry quickly. Not *quite* in a "I'm going to deus ex machina wrap this all up", really, any more than any of her other books. Just...hmmm. I can't tell if it's that I CARE less, or what.

So I was just wikipedia-dipping and discovered that one of the two stories in Soon I Shall Be Invincible is a complete rip of the Tomorrow Woman storyline.

So it was boring, pointless and unoriginal.

So it was boring, pointless and unoriginal.

Yep. 50 points from Slytherin.

Raq, what Tomorrow Girl storyline are you referencing? I couldn't find it in Wikipedia.

Tomorrow Woman:

She was created jointly by Professor Ivo and Professor T. O. Morrow to destroy the newly formed JLA. She became a member based on her telekinetic abilities which she claimed were the result of a "mutant 4 lobed brain." In actual fact, she was a living bomb designed to go off at a specified moment and kill the entire JLA. Eventually though, she denied her purpose, discovering the concept of freedom that her creators had deliberately left out of her programming. She sacrificed herself in order to stop a futuristic war machine by triggering an EMP bomb located in her body, which was originally intended to wipe the brains of the League. It was revealed that Morrow had seen this coming and was thrilled by it. He and Ivo had frequently argued about who had done the better work on her. Ivo thought that the body he had made, which was realistic enough to fool even Superman's heightened senses and x-ray vision, was the true work of genius. Morrow proved him wrong however, as the brain he himself had created was sophisticated and "human" enough to discover free will, even though the concept had not been included in her original programming.

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As I recall, the cyborg chick in "Soon" was built by the mad scientist (albeit put together from parts), and was a bomb designed to take out the supers...

Chapter 1 of the new Temeraire book, Victory of Eagles, has been posted: [link]