Rudy Rucker

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• Heteromeles commented on The Nightmare Stacks: US Launch
  Equally, if this somehow pre-dates the last book, then the superheroes would have known about the partial destruction of Leeds. Obviously this story takes place in yet another parallel universe, where the superhero outbreak has not yet begun. Um, yeah....
• martin089 commented on The Nightmare Stacks: US Launch
  I liked this one most of the times. I wonder about the Doctrine "to be seen is to be dead" - extrapolation from existing warfare or made up to make the alfär style of battle more distinct? The sequel hook at the ending worked especially well for me ... really looking forward to how the whole asylum angle will play out. Minor quibbles: I assume the battle mages went through many slaves during the battle, this could have been mentioned once or twice (the blood running from ther chambers as they 'refresh' themselves between missions ...) It seemd odd to...
• ADennis commented on The Nightmare Stacks: US Launch
  I wonder about the Doctrine "to be seen is to be dead" - extrapolation from existing warfare or made up to make the alfär style of battle more distinct? "If you can be seen, you can be hit. If you can be hit, you can be killed." ISTR first reading that in the early 80s or thereabouts, and it's sufficient of a commonplace that it turned up in rap lyrics in 1991....
• Bellinghman commented on The Nightmare Stacks: US Launch
  Yes. And when you consider the added pressure with gaze weapons where the very seeing is the hitting, the Alfar's maxim will be even more so....
• Glenn Brown commented on The Nightmare Stacks: US Launch
  One thing OGH might consider elaborating on in the next book (if there is still time) was the sentence on page 239 which had some members of Mahogany Row "charging up the M1 motorway in a convey of police cars with flashing lights." This happens not long after Alex sends in his initial warning. Yet on page 374, maybe 9 or 10 hours later, Alex is the only ritual sorcerer in Leeds this weekend. Perhaps Forecasting Ops sends out a message telling the sorcerers on the M1 not to enter Leeds until the afternoon?...