Not a bad bunch at all.

Erm, and here I am having thought sex does ...

4 out of her last 5 novels have not been light sexuality, they have been full on hardcore porn with a smattering of plot thrown in. I kid you not. In the last book, there were 40-50 pages of plot, literally, the rest of the 660 pages was her fucking one guy after another, and sometimes 2 or 3 at once, and at least 3 of these people were characters introduced within 3 to 4 paragraphs of her stripping and screwing them.

Laurell Hamilton used to be a good writer. Now its all porn.

I'm sold!

Yeah, I think he could do a bang-up job myself.

Getting back to authors who we actually have a chance of seeing SR novels out of, however, I'm going to re-iterate my desire to see some of the current crop of freelancers given a shot. I'd kinda like to see a Josie Cruise novel from Jon Szeto, in either SR3 or SR4 timeline. I think Elissa Carey could do some neat stuff in a novel. I'd like to see what Peter Taylor could do with one; I still feel I owe him a public apology for some of the things I said about the EuroSB project before I saw Shadows of Europe. I think that, now that I'm getting married, my head's finally back in the right place for me to write one (years of bad relationship problems == years of writer's block), though I somehow doubt the demand would be there for one of mine as opposed to Jon's or Elissa's; I'm hardly one of the most prolific writers out there.

So I propose, at this point, that we stop trying to come up with dream authors we'd never be able to afford, and see if there's any of the current freelancers any of you might want to see novels from.

(Okay, looking back, that's phrased badly; I'm not saying stop playing the "I want so-and-so to write SR novels" game, but I think that's just kind of masochistic and might stir up bad feelings, as my suggestion of one of my favorites did earlier.)

So what's that make Tyler then? Ally spirit, ally gone free or still just psychotic delusion?

Bwahaha.

Hey, I'm all for it.

Agree. The first half dozen or so books were good, Obsidian Butterfly wasn't bad, but since then it's gotten horrible. I haven't finished the last one, nor do I plan to.

the thing you have to realize in the honor harrington series is that as of the first one she's been a serving naval officer for at least 15 years, secondly, she's supposed to be from a heavy grav planet, and logic states that if someone is used to an enviroment and stays acclimated to those conditions, when put in conditions that are extremely less strenuous on the physical body, the body is enhanced due to the lack of strain, third, i know from experience of having grown up in the woods that when you have a need to be able to react to certain stimuli in a certain way, its muscle memory to do so

add on here:
as far as freelancers go, why not get most of the people who do the little character quips in the manuals to give it a go, i know 'hawk writes some bloody good stuff, so does shap and a couple more on the SR writers forum, i work hard at it myself but dont feel even close to their level yet

Second that.

And this too. *g*

Were you raised by wolves and stuff? That's cool.

no but i am a wolf totem, but seriously, look at a soldier on return from a combat zone, or a person who has spent there entire lives living in bad areas, when they hear gunshots they dive for cover and or pull out their own weapons, its just ingrained in them to do this because its survival, martial arts over a long period of time ingrains this same conditioning, you know the moves and go through them by reacting not thinking, therefore you are acting before thinking