Inspirationally Deficient Characters

[james_davis_nicoll]

Every once in a while Reactor passes on something of mine. This would be the latest example.

Inspirationally Deficient Characters: characters from Hugo-nominated novels who preservered despite significant physical challenges.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Ah Earth Fiction. A pleasant genre, albeit one that is just about played out

[estrevan]

It’s a pretty good joke but, commenters’ struggles with irony aside, I think it’s not great to bring to a conversation about disability rights and representation

[sturgeonslawyer]

I can see why ReacTor passed; the sarcasm/satire/irony/whatever is just a wee bit heavyhanded...

[mindstalk]

Where is "the RPG community" these days?

[jsburbidge]

Somewhere near the JCL community, these days, I would think.

[patrick_morris_miller]

My Traveller code is all in Common Lisp.

[jsburbidge]

(setf (cond (car (cdr ((foo . bar) . baz) ...

[patrick_morris_miller]

setf can do wonders but I'm not sure it can do that.

[jsburbidge]

No, I should have inserted a variable name between it and the unfinished expression beginning with (cond...

[patrick_morris_miller]

Well, you can also do things like (setf (aref the-array (big-hairy-form)) ... ) (and maybe you can even use a form for aref's first arg, I don't have a repl where I am). It's just that (setf cond) isn't defined.

[(Anonymous)]

Could it have been played straight?

# 1 Miles Naismith Vorkosigan - also Mark Pierre Vorkosigan, Commodore Clement Koudelka, late Simon Illyan, and Seargeant Taura
# 2 Helva (The Ship Who Sang) - also Simeon (The City Who Fought) and other shell people
# 3 Howard Falcon (A Meeting With Medusa)
# 4 Manuel Garcia O'Kelly Davis
# 5 Eric Donovan (Becalmed in Hell)
# 6 Gil(bert Gilgamesh) ("the Arm") Hamilton

I see a pattern of cybernetic enhancement.

[patrick_morris_miller]

Waldo Farthingwaite-Jones, as well.