New Rule: This rule was stupid and it's gone.Less egregiously, I have to wonder if Villeneuve will keep the weird subplot with the super-chimps.Science Fiction, or Speculative Fiction if you prefer. I have no doubt that this is going to be one of the aspects of the book that Villeneuve will change, in every sense. Surgeon-Commander Space Boobs is I think the only named female character on the mission itself, and ends up playing a much smaller part in the story than her rank and role would seem to allow. Yet whenever the well-built Surgeon oscillated into the Commander's cabin, he felt a fleeting echo, of an old passion, she knew that he felt it, and everyone was happy. Probably they would never repeat the experience (but could one ever be quite sure of that?) because so much had changed for both of them. On Earth, years ago, in a moment of mutual loneliness and depression, they had once made love. There was no need they knew each other much too well.

He had once mentioned this theory to Surgeon-Commander Laura Ernst, without revealing who had inspired his particular train of thought. He was quite sure that at least one serious space accident had been caused by acute crew distraction, after the transit of a well-upholstered lady officer through the control cabin. It was bad enough when they were motionless but when they started to move, and sympathetic vibrations set in, it was more than any warm-blooded male should be asked to take.

Some women, Commander Norton had decided long ago, should not be allowed aboard ship weightlessness did things to their breasts that were too damn distracting. I love that book for its extraordinary sense of awe and scale, and its willingness to just have people explore something without much hope of resolving it, and I know that Clarke was hardly the worst for this kind of thing, but some of the book is just embarrassing today: The characters are all cardboard cutouts.Įven this is being generous to some of them. Latest Discussions The Super Mario Bros Movie Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves John Wick: Chapter 4 Renfield Keanu Reeves Tobey Maguire

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