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Old 08-20-2012, 07:27 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
The theme is hardly new.
Heinlein's Farnham's Freehold is generally frowned upon for playing with pretty much the same theme back in 1964:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farnham's_Freehold

Role-reversal stories aren't popular even when skillfully written.
Clumsy ones are surefire train wrecks.
Rubberneck at will, then move on..
Idiots abound.
Even in days when Vampires might rule. True Blood among many others.
And of course Zombies!
Someone worries about Blacks being at the top of the food chain??

I think the people protesting aren't Sci Fi people. Just posers.

Mom would have said. "Pay no attention. Don't look at them, and keep walking."
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