Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 21:38:35 -0400
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: "gt-pfrc at ml.gt.org" <gt-pfrc at ml.gt.org>,
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Subject: [WSFA] OT: SF-1
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I'm currently in the middle of Neil Asher's "Prador Moon", and there's a
lot that keeps bothering me about it. His fight scenes, for one. Right
at the beginning, there's these Large Nasty Aliens who they *thought*
were showing up at the station for a first meeting, and instead attack
full bore, about 100 of them.

Meanwhile, the station's AI has all this weaponry, including railguns,
aimed. I can't imagine that the AI, when it sees that their bodies are
armored, and can take much more punishment than humans, can't blow their
heads off in seconds.

Then there's the LNA's ship armor, absorbing a hell of a lot more damage
, and converting it into stored energy for use with weapons, than I can
believe it can do in such a short time (a nuke, I think, and it knocks
the captain off his chair... and there's no significant damage? Another
ship *rams* them?

Anyone else read this, and have similar feelings?

mark
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