WARNING HFQ SPOILER! Thrisk minnisnippet poll

TN4994 wrote:

n7axw wrote:Which would be sneakier: for this to turn up a dream for Thirsk or for our beloved author having set up his loyal fans with that snippet about Hektor in LAMA to now have this turn out to be an actual assasination?

The thing with sneaky is that you can't predict how it will go...

Don

Ack! The DALLAS ploy?

How do you spell 'Ewing' in Safeholdese?

Randomiser wrote:On the gripping hand, it says a whole lot about our author, and the posters, that option three is winning by a country mile!

Based on how often I see the quote "on the gripping hand" I have to wonder how many in this forum have read "The Mote in God's Eye."

I think that this bunch has read most of the si-fi out there.

Nope, the Dallas ploy would be if the book following HFQ revealed that the events in HFQ were all a dream.

On the other hand, authors have often used a "bad dream" scene to show that a character was extremely stressed out and of course Thirsk could reasonable be stressed out by events later in HFQ.

TN4994 wrote:

n7axw wrote:Which would be sneakier: for this to turn up a dream for Thirsk or for our beloved author having set up his loyal fans with that snippet about Hektor in LAMA to now have this turn out to be an actual assasination?

The thing with sneaky is that you can't predict how it will go...

Don

Ack! The DALLAS ploy?

It could be a way to escape. If he was shoot dangerously, but not deadly and he met Merlin before he could escape easily. After he is shoot, he would be taken into his family estate and from there Merlin would grab him. It should be easy and we have reasons for something like that in LAMA he was thinking about escaping from Dohlar, but he was worried about his family. Merlin could solve his problem with family, arrange another fake attack and transport mission, similar to one which picked up Irys and Daivyn.

DrakBibliophile wrote:Nope, the Dallas ploy would be if the book following HFQ revealed that the events in HFQ were all a dream.

Ack! Can you imagine how upset we'd be to wait for an entire year for the next book to be published, only to find out the entire thing was a dream?

Drak, I miss the days of your snerk collar, since we could occasionally get a hint of what was actually going to happen from you, however inadvertent your revelations. RFC is utterly unscrupulous in his comments and out of context "snippets!"

McGuiness wrote:

Randomiser wrote:On the gripping hand, it says a whole lot about our author, and the posters, that option three is winning by a country mile!

Based on how often I see the quote "on the gripping hand" I have to wonder how many in this forum have read "The Mote in God's Eye."

You need a yes/no poll section.
I've read it.

McGuiness wrote:

DrakBibliophile wrote:Nope, the Dallas ploy would be if the book following HFQ revealed that the events in HFQ were all a dream.

Ack! Can you imagine how upset we'd be to wait for an entire year for the next book to be published, only to find out the entire thing was a dream?

Drak, I miss the days of your snerk collar, since we could occasionally get a hint of what was actually going to happen from you, however inadvertent your revelations. RFC is utterly unscrupulous in his comments and out of context "snippets!"

On the flagship Nimue Alban finally awakes from her cryogenic sleep...

McGuiness wrote:Drak, I miss the days of your snerk collar, since we could occasionally get a hint of what was actually going to happen from you, however inadvertent your revelations. RFC is utterly unscrupulous in his comments and out of context "snippets!"

I don't know about Drak, but I find the speculation in the snippet topics hilarious.

No doubt so does runforcelery, Duckk. But fair isfir we entertain each other he with his snippets us with our speculation.

Poker

Duckk wrote:

McGuiness wrote:Drak, I miss the days of your snerk collar, since we could occasionally get a hint of what was actually going to happen from you, however inadvertent your revelations. RFC is utterly unscrupulous in his comments and out of context "snippets!"

I don't know about Drak, but I find the speculation in the snippet topics hilarious.