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From: ccrrick@ucdavis.UUCP (Rick Heli)
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Subject: Re:Space Opera - STAR SMASHERS etc.
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Date: Tue, 11-Jun-85 11:13:06 EDT
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Dick Grantges writes

> hmmm. Interesting to me that while I am an inveterate lover of what
> I consider good space opera, I couldn't get past page 19 of STAR
> SMASHERS OF THE GALAXY RANGERS before consigning it to the "read or
> never will be " pile.

I suggest that maybe you missed the point.  STAR SMASHERS is
supposed to be SATIRE!  If you had read a little further, this would
have been obvious.  For example, on page 21 (as I recall) one of the
protagonists speaks to the other in German so that the villain can't
understand them.  The translated footnote reads something like "You
divert him while I get the girl," but when you translate the German
you find that it really means, "I would like a room on the second
floor with bath."  Etc. throughout the book with an ending that'll
knock your socks off...  or something...
-- 
					--rick heli
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