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[tears] The Secret of Sinharat / People of the Talisman by Leigh Brackett

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by: James Nicoll - Sun, 24 Apr 2022 13:11 UTC

The Secret of Sinharat / People of the Talisman by Leigh Brackett

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/the-sands-of-mars

Eric John Stark is unwillingly drawn into two adventures involving Martian secrets
sensible people would not go looking for.
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by: Dimensional Traveler - Sun, 24 Apr 2022 15:07 UTC

On 4/24/2022 6:11 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
> The Secret of Sinharat / People of the Talisman by Leigh Brackett
>
> https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/the-sands-of-mars
>
> Eric John Stark is unwillingly drawn into two adventures involving Martian secrets
> sensible people would not go looking for.

Sensible people don't have the best stories. :)

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by: James Nicoll - Sun, 24 Apr 2022 15:26 UTC

In article <t43p2u$ar9$2@dont-email.me>,
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>On 4/24/2022 6:11 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
>> The Secret of Sinharat / People of the Talisman by Leigh Brackett
>>
>> https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/the-sands-of-mars
>>
>> Eric John Stark is unwillingly drawn into two adventures involving Martian secrets
>> sensible people would not go looking for.
>
>Sensible people don't have the best stories. :)

Stark is sensible but can be blackmailed by friends into doing stupid things.

--
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by: James Nicoll - Sun, 24 Apr 2022 15:37 UTC

In article <t43q74$ivd$1@reader1.panix.com>,
James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
>In article <t43p2u$ar9$2@dont-email.me>,
>Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>>On 4/24/2022 6:11 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
>>> The Secret of Sinharat / People of the Talisman by Leigh Brackett
>>>
>>> https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/the-sands-of-mars
>>>
>>> Eric John Stark is unwillingly drawn into two adventures involving Martian secrets
>>> sensible people would not go looking for.
>>
>>Sensible people don't have the best stories. :)
>
>Stark is sensible but can be blackmailed by friends into doing stupid things.
>
Five Protagonists Who Can Be Emotionally Blackmailed would be easy to
write. Stark, Dumarest, the Witcher....
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by: Robert Woodward - Sun, 24 Apr 2022 16:48 UTC

In article <t43i9l$qjk$1@reader1.panix.com>,
jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:

> The Secret of Sinharat / People of the Talisman by Leigh Brackett
>
> https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/the-sands-of-mars
>
> Eric John Stark is unwillingly drawn into two adventures involving
> Martian secrets sensible people would not go looking for.

An adventure is something horrible happening to somebody else elsewhere.

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�-----------------------------------------------------
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by: Dimensional Traveler - Sun, 24 Apr 2022 19:41 UTC

On 4/24/2022 8:26 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
> In article <t43p2u$ar9$2@dont-email.me>,
> Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>> On 4/24/2022 6:11 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
>>> The Secret of Sinharat / People of the Talisman by Leigh Brackett
>>>
>>> https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/the-sands-of-mars
>>>
>>> Eric John Stark is unwillingly drawn into two adventures involving Martian secrets
>>> sensible people would not go looking for.
>>
>> Sensible people don't have the best stories. :)
>
> Stark is sensible but can be blackmailed by friends into doing stupid things.
>
That is not a sensible choice of friends. :D

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dirty old man.

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by: James Nicoll - Sun, 24 Apr 2022 21:58 UTC

In article <t44962$d5n$1@dont-email.me>,
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>On 4/24/2022 8:26 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
>> In article <t43p2u$ar9$2@dont-email.me>,
>> Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>>> On 4/24/2022 6:11 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
>>>> The Secret of Sinharat / People of the Talisman by Leigh Brackett
>>>>
>>>> https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/the-sands-of-mars
>>>>
>>>> Eric John Stark is unwillingly drawn into two adventures involving Martian secrets
>>>> sensible people would not go looking for.
>>>
>>> Sensible people don't have the best stories. :)
>>
>> Stark is sensible but can be blackmailed by friends into doing stupid things.
>>
>That is not a sensible choice of friends. :D
>

One of them was his second foster dad...
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by: James Nicoll - Sun, 24 Apr 2022 22:02 UTC

In article <t44h5b$788$1@reader1.panix.com>,
James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
>In article <t44962$d5n$1@dont-email.me>,
>Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>>On 4/24/2022 8:26 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
>>> In article <t43p2u$ar9$2@dont-email.me>,
>>> Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>>>> On 4/24/2022 6:11 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
>>>>> The Secret of Sinharat / People of the Talisman by Leigh Brackett
>>>>>
>>>>> https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/the-sands-of-mars
>>>>>
>>>>> Eric John Stark is unwillingly drawn into two adventures involving
>Martian secrets
>>>>> sensible people would not go looking for.
>>>>
>>>> Sensible people don't have the best stories. :)
>>>
>>> Stark is sensible but can be blackmailed by friends into doing stupid things.
>>>
>>That is not a sensible choice of friends. :D
>>
>
>One of them was his second foster dad...

The first one was murdered, of course.
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by: Jaimie Vandenbergh - Mon, 30 May 2022 17:06 UTC

On 24 Apr 2022 at 16:07:11 BST, "Dimensional Traveler"
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

> On 4/24/2022 6:11 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
>> The Secret of Sinharat / People of the Talisman by Leigh Brackett
>>
>> https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/the-sands-of-mars
>>
>> Eric John Stark is unwillingly drawn into two adventures involving Martian secrets
>> sensible people would not go looking for.
>
> Sensible people don't have the best stories. :)

Lawrence Watt-Evans and Ursula Vernon (aka T Kingfisher) beg to differ.

I do enjoy a sensible protagonist.

Cheers - Jaimie
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by: Lynn McGuire - Mon, 30 May 2022 18:46 UTC

On 4/24/2022 10:07 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> On 4/24/2022 6:11 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
>> The Secret of Sinharat / People of the Talisman by Leigh Brackett
>>
>> https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/the-sands-of-mars
>>
>> Eric John Stark is unwillingly drawn into two adventures involving
>> Martian secrets
>> sensible people would not go looking for.
>
> Sensible people don't have the best stories. :)

I highly disagree. My favorite book is "Mutineer's Moon" by David
Weber. I can name many more books about sensible people forced into
circumstances that they do not control.

Lynn

It's not reality that's important, but how you perceive things.

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[tears] The Secret of Sinharat / People of the Talisman by Leigh Brackett	James Nicoll
Re: [tears] The Secret of Sinharat / People of the Talisman by Leigh	Dimensional Traveler
Re: [tears] The Secret of Sinharat / People of the Talisman by Leigh	James Nicoll
Re: [tears] The Secret of Sinharat / People of the Talisman by Leigh	James Nicoll
Re: [tears] The Secret of Sinharat / People of the Talisman by Leigh	Dimensional Traveler
Re: [tears] The Secret of Sinharat / People of the Talisman by Leigh	James Nicoll
Re: [tears] The Secret of Sinharat / People of the Talisman by Leigh	James Nicoll
Re: [tears] The Secret of Sinharat / People of the Talisman by Leigh Brackett	Jaimie Vandenbergh
Re: [tears] The Secret of Sinharat / People of the Talisman by Leigh	Lynn McGuire
Re: [tears] The Secret of Sinharat / People of the Talisman by Leigh Brackett	Robert Woodward