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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-04-17 10:20 pm

For Book Club

Aside from The Cold Solution, which stories could be said to be replies to The Cold Equations?

(Anonymous) 2025-04-19 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
This series (of questionable quality) from Quentyn Quinn, Space Ranger:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190529124350/http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0119/
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[personal profile] elysdir 2025-04-20 07:36 am (UTC)(link)
Wow—I just read this one for the first time. I was following along and nodding at the usual arguments against the Cold Equations scenario, but I was not expecting the ultimate villain to turn out to be…

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Government safety regulations getting in the way of private enterprise!
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[personal profile] bolindbergh 2025-04-20 01:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Somebody seems blissfully unaware of concepts like "lobbying" and "regulatory capture".

(Anonymous) 2025-04-21 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
It honestly starts pretty fun - I like how they just keep pulling people in, even if none of the arguments are original - but then it really goes off the rails.