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• RDSouth commented on The Algebraic Properties of Equality in SF
  @180 Arya and Ripley indeed. Both awesome. One from fantasy and one from movies. I think many of us were hesitant to pick them from outside of book science fiction. We're trying to show that there ARE heriones in SF, you just have to look. Especially Arya.(My projection is that SOIAF ends with Arya, Tyrion and Daeneris riding back to Westeros on fully grown dragons to save the day against the evil from beyond the wall, which means Tyrion's new girlfriend has to die first, not enough seats. Or maybe Arya or Daeneris. Or Tyrion. Or all the Dragons. At...
• paws4thot commented on The Algebraic Properties of Equality in SF
  180 and #181 - I wasn't reluctant to choose from outside "book SF"; I was reluctant to have too long a list and already had 14 seconds and nominates in #24. Nor was I about to nominate characters from a book/Tv series I've neither read not seen....
• dfjdejulio commented on The Algebraic Properties of Equality in SF
  I gotta go with Paksenarrion. Best rendition of a paladin I've ever seen in fiction, and she just happens to be female....
• scott-sanford commented on The Algebraic Properties of Equality in SF
  One of these days there will probably journalistic spy satellites and cheap journalistic camera drones that give a grounds eye view of everything, no need for journalists. Militaries would desperately try to come up with countermeasures. They're already thinking about it, since recon drones are already in use. The camera drones run by journalists may be the exact same models as the camera drones run by military forces; opposing forces would be irrational not to shoot down as many as they could. For that matter, the camera drones will probably look a lot like the bomb drones; this makes countermeasures...
• dirk.bruere commented on The Algebraic Properties of Equality in SF
  HERF gun, Vircator...