Kilkrazy wrote:dalsiandon wrote:Kilkrazy wrote:...
GW SMs are so extensively modified and perfected as fighting machines, as to be no longer human. They have no relevance or interest in a literary sense. They work as game pieces, but not as characters.
No SF author of any merit would have invented SMs as they are, because they would be crappy and pointless heroes. You might as well write a novel about a platoon of tanks.
I disagree, afterall we play a game that someone who can be called a sci-fi author, even if he was only writting a game, it is a sci-fi game, and he included it, and
BL has tons of stories about the marines and people apparently read the. Of course there are plenty of books that are soley about tanks as well and people read those too....so I don't see how this helps your point.
I'm still right, though.
No SF author of any merit
Are 10% of
SF books solely about tanks? What counts as plenty? Are the books about tanks devoid of human emotion, etc?
That would seem to be an accurate remark. As for books on Tanks, most of those tend to be historical, or for model makers, or they are repair manuals, and then there are books on tanks that hold water not weapons, so....yeah I think they are devoid of most human emotion as they tend to be more factual....the Patton Tank was --- long and it had 15 inch gun on it and blah blah blah blah .... yeah...no human emotion....but there are still lots of those books and people do read them....so I guess we are both right.
