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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2011-02-19 06:04 pm

Dear SF writers of the world

I hit my lifetime tolerance for heroic tales of children drafted into draconian, high mortality super-soldier programs justified as required for the greater good sometime around the end of the novel version of Ender's Game. Please adjust your story lines accordingly.

[identity profile] llennhoff.livejournal.com 2011-02-20 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
See Skylark 3, where the highly advanced Norlaminians jump out of the control station before Seaton uses the giant weapon they taught him to build to blow up a world full of intelligent beings. Seaton himself is unable to actually pull the firing lever, he stays in the control station but lets his 'barbarous' friend actually pull the lever.