I am horribly amused to find out that "Nick the Dick" from Bachelor Party was one of Khan's henchmen in TWOK.
Eugenics Wars.
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I am horribly amused to find out that "Nick the Dick" from Bachelor Party was one of Khan's henchmen in TWOK.
, after reading the excerpt.
Pretty much. Remember that old Cold War comedy: "The Russians are Coming! The Russians are coming!"
Americans didn't draw a distinction between the Russians and the Soviets, and probably used the word "Russian" more than they did "Soviets."
Nobody expected that the Russians were going to stop being Soviets in our lifetimes.
Well, of course, the real problem with calling Soviets "Russians" was that Russia was just the biggest one of the fifteen Soviet Socialist Republics. A lot of Soviets were Ukrainians, Georgians, Belarusians/Byelorussians, Estonians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Latvians, Lithuanians, Moldavians, Kazakhs, Uzbeks, Tajiks, Kirghiz, or Turkmens rather than Russians (and no doubt some other ethnic groups that didn't have their own namesake SSRs). So it was the same kind of mistake as, say, referring to a Scot or a Welsh person as "English."
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To be fair, though, the Russians were very clearly the dominant force within the USSR. Even when Stalin, a Georgian, was in charge, Soviet policy essentially privileged Russians over the other nationalities, to the point of trying to suppress some nationalities' cultures and languages. So an argument can be made that referring to the Soviets as "the Russians" is just acknowledging the reality that the Russians were the dominant power and that the Soviet state was merely the instrument of their dominance.
Yippee!
Yes, we Khan
People from Cross Cult say Vol. 1 will also be available at the FedCon in Duesseldorf, which features guests like Tony Todd, Tim Russ and Jeri Ryan among others.
I will order it in my local book store or via Amazon as I don´t go to the FedCon.
Are the German covers on Amazon the official ones? Because if they are, I'm jealous.
It's funny. The Germans are finally getting it printed for them, yet in the last fortnight the digital version of Vol. 2 looks like it's been yanked completely from Australian distribution, and Vol. 1 & 3 have had a nearly 50% price rise.
It's funny. The Germans are finally getting it printed for them, yet in the last fortnight the digital version of Vol. 2 looks like it's been yanked completely from Australian distribution, and Vol. 1 & 3 have had a nearly 50% price rise.
The German covers are final. They polarize, though. They may not be the best cover design by Cross Cult, nonetheless they are still great.
http://www.cross-cult.de/titel/star-trek-eugenische-kriege-1.html
http://www.cross-cult.de/titel/star-trek-eugenische-kriege-2.html
You should know that there will be only Vol. 1+2. To reign in Hell isn´t planned yet.
The thing is, they look suspiciously like a card that pops up at the end of some of sfdebris's reviews. I don't know if it's his, or if it's a donars. I'd assumed it was fan art, but maybe not.
I kinda like how they're different from most of the other Trek cover art. It's sort of pop-art-ish. Although from my POV, it's like an alternate cover and not the cover. Maybe I'd think differently if that was all that was available to me.
I kinda like how they're different from most of the other Trek cover art. It's sort of pop-art-ish. Although from my POV, it's like an alternate cover and not the cover. Maybe I'd think differently if that was all that was available to me.
