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Classic Book Review - "In Enemy Hands" (Honorvese 7)

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IN WHICH IT ALL GOES WRONG ... After her victories against Pirates and Peep raiders in Silesia in "Honor among enemies," Honor Harrington has spent a few months working with the Weapons Development board, but now returns to Grayson where Admiral White Haven is putting together the Alliance's "Eighth Fleet" which will take the war to the Peep aggressors. But in this seventh book in the series she will be tested as never before ...   "In Enemy hands" begins about a year after the end of "Honor among enemies," six years into the war against the People's republic of Haven (Peeps), and about two thousand years in our future. Reflecting the fact that war is expensive in terms of human life and suffering as well as resources, David Weber's books have never shied away from depicting the pain and loss involved. especially for those on both sides when one side in the war is a ruthless dictatorship to which human life is cheap. The "P...

The Ackbar Quiz

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Star Wars Daily has asked what famous line Admiral Ackbar says. Of course you probably all know that the correct answer is "It's a Trap!" What other suggestions do people have?

Thrawn on how the Empire could have won at Endor

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Another fan fiction video with Admiral Thrawn and Captain Pellaeon discussing this history of the Galaxy far, far away. Here they discuss how Thrawn, if he had not been hijacked to the Peridia galaxy, would have managed the trap at Endor.

Thrawn on the fall of the republic

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These fan fiction videos showing discussions between Admiral Mitth'raw'nurodo and Captain Pellaeon are not canon, but many of them are entertaining and thought-provoking. Here Thrawn discusses the fall of the Galactic Republic.

Classic SF book review: "The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman

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" The Forever War " by Joe Haldeman, was published in 1974 and I first read it as a child.  It is an absolutely iconic novel of what relativity might do to the lives of people who travel in space, especially if we ever had the disaster of an interstellar war, is one of the greatest science fiction novels of all time, and probably just about beats Ursula Le Guin's " The word for world is forest " as the greatest Science Fiction anti-war novel of all time.   ( Original book cover art above was by Patrick Woodroffe ) The book is narrated by William Mandela, and at the start of the book, set in 1996, he is a private, called up to fight in a war which has just started against an alien race known as the "Taurans.". In the author's preface to the Gollancz masterworks edition, written in 1997, Haldeman explained that he set the start of the story in 1996 so that it was just possible that some of the officers and senior non-commissioned officers at that st...

Thrawn on the consequences of destroying Alderaan

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 A piece of fan fiction, but it makes some good arguments.

Quiz answer

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" May the 4th be with you " was first used by the British Conservative party. It was a newspaper advert message from party workers to it's leader, Margaret Thatcher, who became Britain's first woman Prime Minister on 4th May 1979 after winning the general election the previous day.