Copperfox
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A novel titled "The Cyborg and the Sorcerers," followed by "The Wizard and the War Machine," was among the multiple influences which led to my eventual creation of the superhero Grey Eagle. The astronaut protagonist in these books comes to one of numerous terrestroid planets which Earth previously colonized. His mission (similar to colonial tax- collecting in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries) is to ensure that food crops, the yields of mining operations, etc., are shipped back to the home star system.
Arriving on his assigned planet, he finds that the colonists have developed quasi-magical abilities (yes, this is the Grey Eagle connection). He eventually acquires the same powers they have.
Here comes the huge plot hole. In these books, the homeworld-based tribute collectors travel in suspended animation, at a velocity SLOWER THAN the speed of light. Their automated navigation technology directs everything until the starship nears approach orbit, and everything else follows. Hello? Are you following me? Imagine a preschooler crying to her mommy, "Mommy, I want my bottle!!" And the mother calmly replies, "Don't worry, dear, your great-grandchildren will have milk to drink."
Yeah, the gravity-based powers which my fictional Eliot Granholm wields in the partially- completed novels represent THE ONLY benefit my writing has derived from Lawrence Watt-Evans. Absolutely >NO< Dancing Lawn members have ever been so amateurish about storytelling.
Arriving on his assigned planet, he finds that the colonists have developed quasi-magical abilities (yes, this is the Grey Eagle connection). He eventually acquires the same powers they have.
Here comes the huge plot hole. In these books, the homeworld-based tribute collectors travel in suspended animation, at a velocity SLOWER THAN the speed of light. Their automated navigation technology directs everything until the starship nears approach orbit, and everything else follows. Hello? Are you following me? Imagine a preschooler crying to her mommy, "Mommy, I want my bottle!!" And the mother calmly replies, "Don't worry, dear, your great-grandchildren will have milk to drink."
Yeah, the gravity-based powers which my fictional Eliot Granholm wields in the partially- completed novels represent THE ONLY benefit my writing has derived from Lawrence Watt-Evans. Absolutely >NO< Dancing Lawn members have ever been so amateurish about storytelling.