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*** Stirling in later years has become more willing to acknowledge the holes in his earlier work (the Draka series was one of his first professional sales). In the ''Drakas!'' anthology (which he edited) there is a rather ruthless deconstruction by another author of ''Marching Through Georgia'' in general and Eric von Shrakenberg in particular. One of the best stories in the book. |
*** Stirling in later years has become more willing to acknowledge the holes in his earlier work (the Draka series was one of his first professional sales). In the ''Drakas!'' anthology (which he edited) there is a rather ruthless deconstruction by another author of ''Marching Through Georgia'' in general and Eric von Shrakenberg in particular. One of the best stories in the book. |
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** However, that's what you get with alternate-universe fiction. Those many, many universes in which the Draka much more plausibly got their asses handed to them aren't the ones we end up hearing about. |
** However, that's what you get with alternate-universe fiction. Those many, many universes in which the Draka much more plausibly got their asses handed to them aren't the ones we end up hearing about. |
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*** There have been quite a few attempts essayed, some more successful than others, to write alternates to the [[Alternate Universe]] in which the Draka get theirs. [[ |
*** There have been quite a few attempts essayed, some more successful than others, to write alternates to the [[Alternate Universe]] in which the Draka get theirs. [[Alternatehistory.com]], as noted above, plays host to a number of them. Stirling himself has participated in forum discussions related to several of those writing projects: There's least one incident in which Stirling got into a tremendous fight with several participants in one of those projects about just how absurdly over-armored the Draka Rhino ground-attack aircraft was. |
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*** Admittedly, the A-10 "Warthog" is almost that absurdly armored in real life. |
*** Admittedly, the A-10 "Warthog" is almost that absurdly armored in real life. |
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