The Long and the Short of It

Roy C. Lackey · 03 Nov 2006, 19:38 · from 2006-November.txt.gz

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From: rclackey at stic.net (Roy C. Lackey)
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 13:38:54 -0600
Subject: (urth) The Long and the Short of It
Message-ID: <000c01c6ff7f$b5ea52c0$ab3ec6d8 at rclackey.stic.net>

Mo Holkar wrote:
>Has anyone read the recent Robert Borski, The Long and the Short of
>It? -- Amazon are offering it to me a an ideal companion for Soldier
>of Sidon. I've read Solar Labyrinth, which I found kind of a mix of
>interesting ideas with some rather tiresome (eg. the cryoptnymics).

Only one of the essays really touches on the first two SOLDIER books, if
that's what you wanted to know. The rest is similar to SL, but isn't
concentrated on the Urth Cycle.

-Roy

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