A long long time ago in a galaxy far far away there was an evil empire.
On this particular planet was a young man named Spar T'Cus. He rebelled against the evil empire and gathered a band of his friends together to fight them.
They conquered many planets and won freedom for a few who rallied for their cause. Alas for our hero, there is no Giant Plot Device that can easily be destroyed to ensure victory.
Along the way there are love scenes and many cases of mistaken identity as our hero is hunted down and finally killed.
Heathcliff, orphaned by a freak space mining accident, is taken in by the nearest colony and grows up fond of the chief's daughter, Catherine. Thwarted in his love for Catherine by her status-oriented family, he develops new space mining techniques and eventually takes over both Catherine's colony and the neighboring one, to the detriment of everyone's happiness, including his own.
What a shame about Octavia Butler! I really enjoy her work, and enjoyed speaking to her the one time I attended a reading.
My gratuitous amusing sign reference was at a camping store, in summertime: "Now is the discount of our winter tents".
The newspaper that Herb Caen wrote for (the San Francisco Chronicle) published an interesting anti-Bush screed today (Wednesday) by Mark Morford: read it here.
Bruce, to bring in another kind of crackpot nuttery that has recently been in the public eye, what if Mr. Rawls is a co-religionist to Tom Cruise, and doesn't believe in mental disorders?
That would really make life interesting for people who have to deal with him directly, wouldn't it?
I'm so sorry to read about this!
For what it's worth, I have just written to Jon Carroll of the San Francisco Chronicle. I hope that he can help- it seems like the kind of thing he could write very well.
If anyone else has more pull with him, perhaps they could use it?
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