The doors on the different ships in Destiny seemed to sigh quiet a bit. It reminded me of the ship from Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy!
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The doors on the different ships in Destiny seemed to sigh quiet a bit. It reminded me of the ship from Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy!
Actually, I find the doors of Star Trek to be far more sarcastic--their characteristic "psshh" comes off closer to a constant, "As if!"
I'm finally reading the first SCE book (which I bought ages ago) and Dean Wesley Smith seems to be in love with the word "clearly." Not one page goes by without him using it. It's clearly getting old. I don't remember this with other books of his, so it may just be this one.
On a lighter note, not once in Gods of Night does David Mack refer to the diversity of Titan's crew!
I'm reading that now. And, I'm pretty sure it was mentioned*. It was just far less 'in-your-face' than all four previous novels.
*I don't have the book on hand to check for certain, but I think it was in the chapter when Pazlar got:
the holo-environment that allowed her to move through the ship without actually moving through the ship.
I skimmed the chapter you mentioned and saw nothing of the kind. I could be wrong, but I don't think I ever made an explicit reference to that aspect of the Titan series.
"After all" drives me crazy! It's a filler, waffle - meaningless as far as I'm concerned. Like you're trying to fill the word limit. Not just in "Trek" (looking at NF particularly), but in other novels and general speech.
edited for spelling - dratted long fingernails on the keyboard.
edited for spelling - dratted long fingernails on the keyboard.
Hmm, I looked back through all the Titan chapters I'm up to, and I don't know what I was remembering, cause there is nothing there for sure. I do distinctly remember something in the text triggering the whole "diversity" thought in my mind though, can't for the life of me imagine what it was now though.
But anyway, Only half way though thus far, and as per usual this book is owning pretty hard -- and the death toll is high.
"After all", particularly in dialogue, is a pause and set-up before a point is about to be made or a conclusion is about to be offered regarding what was just previously said.
After all, isn't that what connected, flowing storytelling is all about?
(see: "therefore", "as a result", etc.)
--Ted
Clearly, the diversity of opinion in this thread makes me laugh, a hearty laugh from within belly, that would make the most callous of Klingon warriors smile in delight after all. I am saddened though to see those who sigh, their hearts filled depression eav'oqative of a stygian void.
"After all", particularly in dialogue, is a pause and set-up before a point is about to be made or a conclusion is about to be offered regarding what was just previously said.
After all, isn't that what connected, flowing storytelling is all about?
(see: "therefore", "as a result", etc.)
--Ted
When it's used so frequently that it jars me out of the story and makes me want to send a thesaurus to the author/speaker...
Okay so I had to chuckle as I encountered the word "stygian" twice in the first hundred pages of Gods of Night.
*Sits back and waits to be nuked by Mack.
*Sits back and waits to be nuked by Mack.
^ Actually, I had previously noted the various uses of "Stygian" that writers could expect to see in all three volumes of the trilogy. So, no surprise there.
But have you told them about your new trilogy involving the starship U.S.S. Stygian? ("Its hull was as black as a wolf's gullet.")
Oops. Was that a secret?
--Ted
^ That does it. Next time I'll have you sign a non-disclosure agreement...
NDAs aren't enforceable in California.
Which, given that more NDAs are issued by Hollywood studios than anyone else on the planet probably, is quite surprising - if true!
Hollywood exists in its own realm outside space, time, reality, civility, and maturity. Haven't you been keeping up with the memos?
No, they've obviously not reached the UK!!
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