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Commented on That "Annihilation Score" spoiler thread you're all asking for
Hmpf: You could probably argue that Mo's entire mission (creating a superhero-focused organisation as a sort of smokescreen for the Laundry) in TAS was an exercise in combat epistemology, though. Though personally I'd always assumed the "combat" in the term...
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Commented on That "Annihilation Score" spoiler thread you're all asking for
@501: There's no implication the Eater Of Souls is a parasite - or indeed a separate entity from Angleton-the-person; reading the Bloody White Baron's letters about Teapot suggested total personality replacement by the summoned entity. Bob may have escaped this...
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Commented on That "Annihilation Score" spoiler thread you're all asking for
@510: the Met definitely had Mo practising CE at the Last Night of the Proms Maybe! My first impulse, though, is to suppose that such a brute-force mass-installation of the Met's "rootkit" bypasses CE and goes straight to full-blown brainwashing....
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Commented on That "Annihilation Score" spoiler thread you're all asking for
Eric: You're right. In TAA, Mo says: "They're looking for a breakthrough. Knowing how to deconstruct any opponents ideological infrastructure and derive self-propagating conceptual viruses based on its blind spots, for example. That sort of thing would give them [the...
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Commented on That "Annihilation Score" spoiler thread you're all asking for
Sounds like a job for BRAID TALISKER MAJESTIC....
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Commented on That "Annihilation Score" spoiler thread you're all asking for
ASIDE: Or maybe "combat epistemology" is a euphemism for using overwhelming necromantically-induced terror to change a person's mind, and Bob just isn't cleared to know that. INCOMING PLOT BUNNY When it comes time to move out of the New Annexe,...
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Commented on That "Annihilation Score" spoiler thread you're all asking for
More random thoughts about the book... Adrian Howard: However with a population of billions of defenceless snackable human's just laying around the planet are our cross-dimensional terrors really going to go to all the effort to dig the old ones...
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Commented on That "Annihilation Score" spoiler thread you're all asking for
I know OGH has cried off pastiches — but a Tom Clancy-esque novel (or novella?) of a Mo/Artists Rifles mission would be huge fun ;-) I'll confess I've never read Clancy, but I'd love to see Mo, Barnes, and Scary...
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Commented on That "Annihilation Score" spoiler thread you're all asking for
Mo, on the other hand, is the veteran of (by this point in the story) dozens of planned missions. Which were successful. Because she's still alive. The first time we see a non-newbie Mo come close to fouling up is...
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Commented on That "Annihilation Score" spoiler thread you're all asking for
Still, Mo seems to define male maturity by conventional success, and arguably that broke up her first marriage (something I've certainly seen in academia). She lucked out by marrying someone who's willing to save her during her darkest moments and...
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Commented on That "Annihilation Score" spoiler thread you're all asking for
I guess that the point I was trying to make poorly was that I don't see Bob as a failed careerist, and Mo as a successful careerist. I think they're both very successful, but in different domains. Bob's management —...
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Commented on That "Annihilation Score" spoiler thread you're all asking for
I read Mo and Bob's careers fairly differently from that. I saw her rapid progression from Laundry recruit to the bearer of the violin to be driven by what happened to her in TAC — which was, by and large,...
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Commented on That "Annihilation Score" spoiler thread you're all asking for
I finished reading the book yesterday and spent a day thinking about it. I really like the team of Mo, Ramona, and Mhari. It's wonderful to see them turned into more rich and well-rounded characters, leaning on each other for...