Has Rich Baker read too many novels by Greg Benford?
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All of which is by way of saying that the guy from the council has supplemented the poison in our loft with mechanical squirrel traps....
Shorter answer, yes! At least he's chosen a Hugo Award winner to emulate. Just imagine if he had tried to copy a Poe Award winner.
Posted by: PrahaPartizan on April 30, 2004 10:26 AMI have read five novels by Benford. Is that too many?
Posted by: Rich on April 30, 2004 11:21 AMWell, one of the subtler themes in "War of the Worlds" -- although Wells states it explicitly in one passage toward the end -- is that the super-intelligent Martians treat us not one bit more brutally than we treat animals, and using exactly the same justification: we're lots smarter than you are.
Posted by: Bruce Moomaw on May 1, 2004 04:27 AMAnd a somewhat less subtle theme is that Britain is being treated in much the same way as it treated the rest of the world (only several orders of magnitude worse!).
For the record, I was very unhappy about the resolution of the squirrel problem, but apparently when such an infestation is reported to the council they have to use poison and traps (apparently because squirrels are very good at biting through electrical cables and starting fires). I would've been much happier if chemical or ultrasonic repellents had been available to drive them out.
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