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medwyn

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I killed Salvor Hardin.
I was reluctant to do that but triple checked and he was really one of those "wanted" pirates.
I followed him a while and tried to contact him on holocom. Somehow I just didn't want to do this. But he answered my radio call saying "Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right."

So I've done it.
Also I gave away the bounty as a charity.

Now I need a drink.
 

CatHellsky

CatHellsky
The irony that I just received this book for christmas. I'll have to read it during the long trips in supercruise. Sometimes Hutton Orbital is worth it...
 

Jesters09

Jesters09
Now we'll all have read all three books and the End of Eternity, best IMO.

Come to think of it, those large stations kind of remind me of Ringworld.
 
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J.M.Braehe

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Epic series...

Personally, I'm waiting to come across Valentine Michael Smith... I'm interested to see if he gronk's why I simply MUST take his cargo.... I am a man with needs, after all.
 

Zathraas

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J.M.Braehe said:
Epic series...

Personally, I'm waiting to come across Valentine Michael Smith... I'm interested to see if he gronk's why I simply MUST take his cargo.... I am a man with needs, after all.
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Ummm... I think he might GROK why you must take his cargo (you are a heavily armed, psychotic kleptomaniac with needs, after all ;) ) But I'm pretty sure he won't know how to gronk anything :)
 

Bruce Warren

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Do you mean the fifth book? IIRC book 4 was Foundation's Edge which I always though was a much stonger story even if I didn't like Galaxia.
The idea of the second foundation becoming complacent, and falling seriously behind the first foundation in tech. trusting in their get out of jail free mind control was a genuine shock to me, but it totally follows from the original, as does the first foundation continuing down their new path of Psychology.

If you remember the end of 3. Preem Palver assumes the first foundation will abandon it's work on mind control. It shows a very human failing even among the first foundation and also a form of hypocrisy. After admonishing the student for intellectual laziness and making assumptions rather than calculating things our properly he's guilty of exactly the same thing. It's Palver's fault that Branno has the mind shield. He assumed they'd abandon the mind tech, he never bother to calculate it out and take steps against it.
Back to Elite. I'd quite like to see either Lathen Devers or Linmar Ponyets. Of all the foundation characters, to me they epitomize the spirit of the independent trader.
 

Ulysses_W

Ulysses_W
Bruce Warren said:
Do you mean the fifth book? IIRC book 4 was Foundation's Edge which I always though was a much stonger story even if I didn't like Galaxia.
The idea of the second foundation becoming complacent, and falling seriously behind the first foundation in tech. trusting in their get out of jail free mind control was a genuine shock to me, but it totally follows from the original, as does the first foundation continuing down their new path of Psychology.

If you remember the end of 3. Preem Palver assumes the first foundation will abandon it's work on mind control. It shows a very human failing even among the first foundation and also a form of hypocrisy. After admonishing the student for intellectual laziness and making assumptions rather than calculating things our properly he's guilty of exactly the same thing. It's Palver's fault that Branno has the mind shield. He assumed they'd abandon the mind tech, he never bother to calculate it out and take steps against it.
Back to Elite. I'd quite like to see either Lathen Devers or Linmar Ponyets. Of all the foundation characters, to me they epitomize the spirit of the independent trader.
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Oops. Yes, you're quite right. I've read it at least 4 times though!
 

Nereus

Nereus
Man, for a meager reward, you prevented the creation of psychohistory, caused the downfall of human civilization (in a couple thousand years), AND, as a bonus, made R. Daneel really mad!

Jehoshaphat!

Shame on you!

: )
 

JeffRyan

JeffRyan
Ulysses_W said:
Oops. Yes, you're quite right. I've read it at least 4 times though!
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I thought that was the weakest of the lot, I found the discussion between Golan and What'sHerFace to be interminable, pointless and annoying. And Golan's strong character from Foundation's Edge basically became a filtered word I can't use here.
 
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