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From: jim@randvax.UUCP (Jim Gillogly)
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Subject: (SPOILER) Rudy Rucker's _Master of Space and Time_
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Date: Tue, 18-Feb-86 11:44:50 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 18 11:44:50 1986
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The Gary Herbers in this book were a direct ripoff of Heinlein's _Puppet
Masters_.  They were the same shape (brain-sized lump), the same consistency
(squishy), did the same thing (took over the host), communicated the same
way (hosts pulled up shirt and put them in contact), and treated their
hosts the same way (forgot to feed them sometimes, etc.).  I assume this
was intentional to make some kind of a point, although Heinlein wasn't
credited.  Anybody have an idea what the point was?  Was Harry Gerber merely
a Heinlein freak, and thus created these things in SF-fantasy-mode?

It wouldn't bother me if they were just mentioned in passing, but this was
really the main conflict in the book.
-- 
	Jim Gillogly
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