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Originally Posted by leebase
Alright, now you gotta explain this to those of us not in the know.
Lee
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I believe the story goes that Weber was in a cut-throat spades game and Joe did something or other to earn Weber's wrath. So in the Honor universe, Weber killed Joe off in some kind of shuttle or smaller ship battle. (I don't remember exactly.)
Then I believe Ringo used Joe in the Aldenata series. Joe was the guy playing with the grenade (or whatever) and blew his hand off in the first book. Joe came back in the second book, I believe, trapped under rubble. I think that time, he got his arm blown or cut off. In the third book, Joe did a crazy solo attack and got shot in the butt. I think he died that time. It's been awhile since I've read the books.
Later on, Julie Cochran used Joe as the basis for the PDA AIs. They're super paranoid and need to be reinstalled often.
Eric Flint used Joe in the 1632 universe as a reporter or some kind of paparazzi. He was murdered by some kind of painful poison, I think.
In the Boundary universe, Eric and Ryk made Joe a main character and I believe Joe experienced MANY awful accidents. I haven't read the series, so I don't know what Eric and Ryk did to Joe.
There might have been other authors who did stuff to Joe, but I can't remember or never read them.
P.S. The last I heard, Joe does not work for Baen.