James Moar
From the Evil Overlord List: No. 116
If I capture the hero's starship, I will keep it in the landing bay with the ramp down, only a few token guards on duty, and a ton of explosives set to go off as soon as it clears the blast-range.
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From: "James Moar" <jwm1 at st-and.ac.uk>
To: urth at lists.best.com
Subject: Ain't You 'Most Done?
Date: Sun, Feb 28, 1999, 3:11 pm
Anyone seen Gene Wolfe's story "Ain't You 'Most done?" in Sandman: Book of Dreams?
I don't have much to say about it, other than getting the usual feeling of a Gene Wolfe story - ie, that I'm missing at least 90% of the point.
The only notable subtleties I caught were the resemblance between the applying of makeup and the change in appearance of a corpse, and the appearances of Dream and Death (which weren't hard to spot, in context).
James Moar
From the Evil Overlord List: No. 116
If I capture the hero's starship, I will keep it in the landing bay with the ramp down, only a few token guards on duty, and a ton of explosives set to go off as soon as it clears the blast-range.